No longer able to book many *A Partner flights on united.com?
Oct 12, 2021, 5:22 am
#1
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No longer able to book many *A Partner flights on united.com?
In the past, I used to book *A flights at the united.com portal. These flights usually depart and land in Europe (I use united.com to keep all my flights under a single account). It seems that this is no longer available. Any reason for that?
Oct 12, 2021, 6:01 am
#2
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Are you looking for flights without any UA legs, or with some? I've booked *A flights, with UA legs, on UA.com as recently as a few hours ago. I also booked a oneway all LH ticket using UA miles a week or so ago.
Oct 12, 2021, 6:08 am
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Some flights cannot be found on United.com or UA App; for example, NH1 and NH2 (IAD-HND). I do not know the reason but carriers may ask United not to sell certain flights. Try a different search with different departure and arriving cities. Good luck.
Oct 12, 2021, 8:29 am
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LH might have requested them not to do this.
Only other *A airline's awards are shown - both in app and on the website. No revenue tix.
Oct 12, 2021, 9:36 am
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The JV TATLs are not affected, which is why we can still buy an all LH operated TATL itinerary through UA.
Last edited by Kacee; Oct 12, 2021 at 9:43 am
Oct 12, 2021, 10:16 am
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Oct 12, 2021, 11:39 am
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nope, you are definitely wrong, that is much more recent. You were able to purchase FRA-JNB-FRA on united.com until relatively recently. Not intra-Europe and TATL, but non-JV long-haul you could perfectly fine book on united.com. Why that was taken away earlier this year is unclear.
Oct 12, 2021, 11:39 am
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Yes this was a booking channel restriction implemented by LH in 2017. No longer able to book LH Group intra-Europe only flights on UA 016 ticket stock
Four years ago.
The JV TATLs are not affected, which is why we can still buy an all LH operated TATL itinerary through UA.
Four years ago.
The JV TATLs are not affected, which is why we can still buy an all LH operated TATL itinerary through UA.
Last edited by SuperFlyBoy; Oct 12, 2021 at 11:54 am
Oct 12, 2021, 5:15 pm
#12
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Ditto - I bought SYD-LIS r/t in Feb'2020 (with no UA-native or UA-codeshare legs). When I tried doing this more recently it no longer showed any results. It was always much easier to deal with the 1k line than with LH or other foreign carriers.
Oct 14, 2021, 2:40 am
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nope, you are definitely wrong, that is much more recent. You were able to purchase FRA-JNB-FRA on united.com until relatively recently. Not intra-Europe and TATL, but non-JV long-haul you could perfectly fine book on united.com. Why that was taken away earlier this year is unclear.
FWIW United.com still prices FRAJNB fares that seem to match LH fares in the calendar and +/- 3-day matrix but will always error out when one is selected. Any chance this is a hardcoded restriction that UA created on their end?
Oct 17, 2021, 9:06 am
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Oct 17, 2021, 10:43 am
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I've been looking at booking an ANA flight on united.com for a flight in June 2022 but I am unable to show up any revenue flights. I can see award tickets but not able to show up the codeshare flights. Is this a united.com glitch or something else? I'm interested in SIN-TYO but I also searched intra-Japan trips and they don't show up either.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Oct 17, 2021 at 10:46 am Reason: Moved to referenced thread; thanks for the link