DDurm

Anyone else having problems booking Virgin Australia Awards on UA. Have been trying for a week, with no luck. Shows availability:

MEL to ZQN January 2, non-stop Flight 143

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Have called UA several times. They see the space on the website but can't book it either. It still shows available.

njxbean

Is it possible to use miles to book a flight that has one segment in economy plus and one in business?

Im booking flights to sydney. Seems the choices are business class both ways with a connection or premium plus for 1 segment and regular economy on the other. I am looking to do premium plus and Business on the second leg ideally. Is this possible? If so does the price change?

jsloan

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. Yes, on a connecting itinerary booked using MileagePlus miles, you can customize the cabin on each leg, but you have to use multi-city search to do it, and it will affect the price.

njxbean

ok thanks that’s what i am asking. It only gave me the option for prem plus and economy. So it sounds like i need to go multi city to do it.

findark

Note: you will probably not like the price if you do it this way.

SFOrunner

I am searching for TATL flights on United.com and initial results are show very limited, if none at all, availability of partner flights.

For example, SFO-FRA on 6/30/22 shows UA926 (with availability in Y) but does not show LH455. Lufthansa is selling this flight on Lufthansa.com.

Are the flight loads just so high that the codeshares aren't available? In general it feels like United is only showing me United operated flights and I'm not sure if this is because there literally isn't availability on partner flights, or something else?

WineCountryUA

Paid or award? (if codeshare, so likely paid)

TATL for next week is likely to be nearly sold out

UA is limited to the codeshare inventory, not the entire flight inventory.

Try Google Flights

Kacee

Codeshare inventory is separate from native inventory. If UA's not selling the codeshare, you can assume they've sold their allotted inventory.

findark

Yes.

30-Jun LH455 is J0 G0 Y3.

UA8828 is sold out in all cabins.

chasebrad

I went to cancel a 34,600 mile flight and have the option to take a refund of the 34,600 miles, or $34,600 in flight credit. What are the chances I'll actually get that flight credit total if I hit accept?

iluv2fly

34,600 to 1 you will not,

pinniped

I have two flights tomorrow, MCI-IAH-SJO. The MCI-IAH flight is at 9AM, so the itinerary is open for checkin.

There are three of us on the itin. Me, Silver, plus two non-elites.

For MCI-IAH, I had no trouble moving myself and one companion to E+, leaving the 2nd companion as-is in the row behind E+.

But for IAH-SJO, I can *only* select myself plus one specific companion - not the other one. Whether I try to move myself first or second, it's like one of my two companions is banned from E+ for some reason. But the other one would be totally fine.

Also, if I move myself out of E-, my seat is immediately blocked so I cannot move my "unlucky" companion to that E- seat.

E- is completely full and E+ is almost completely empty. I have a hunch that an airport agent will be able to move two of us to E+ and leave us with one E- aisle seat. (Or maybe even move the third person to an E+ middle.) But the app won't let me do it. I'm not terribly worried about it, but I'm wondering if others have run into weird behaviors when their reservation has more than two people on it.

VRFast

Silver only get E+ free at checkin for you and 1 companion. It does matter what order you have your travel companions from what I see (selected when you enter the passengers on the PNR before you select seats). I’m in the same boat except I can select E+ at booking (Gold), but it matters what order you picked your travel companions. When I try to select an E+ seat for my daughter (3rd companion) I’m asked to pay, but my wife (2nd) and I get it for free.
Not sure but I think they’ll be able to fix this at the airport, giving E+ to #3 and putting #2 in E-.

rbakker

A few weeks from now I'll be taking UA480 (BWI - IAH) but I notice that it's been cancelled for each of the last three days. Is this normal? Should I be worried? Thanks.

WineCountryUA

Depends on the cancellation reasons.

There are a lot of issues with flights due to weather, due to ATC staffing and crews (pilots mostly), EWR has reduced EWR operations principally due to ATC issues. DL and AA are doing similar proactive cancellations in their system.

This, on the surface, does not yet sound like a system constrained flight but cancellations are an issue across the induatry. Probably would get worried if this continues thru next week. Any change by you at this point would be considered voluntary.