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Feb 9, 2022, 10:06 pm

#76

hotelfanatic

Join Date: Feb 2005

Programs: Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, Hyatt Globlist, Hilton Silver, Amtrak Select Plus, UA Silver

Posts: 2,025

I am a MileagePlus Premier® member (from being Marriott LT Plat) and was booking flights from WAS to LIH using points. Yesterday they were offering one way tickets for 12.5K (Exclusively available to you as a MileagePlus Premier® member). Today is back to 22.5K. But the 12.5K is offered from BOS to LIH today (not yesterday). In both cases I took advantage as I have family members flying from both WAS and BOS. But I missed booking with points for our rtn from Honolulu to WAS yesterday for 12.5K. Today is back to 24.5K.

My question is will these offer be back again or do i need to check daily?

Feb 9, 2022, 10:16 pm

#77

WineCountryUA

Moderator: United Airlines

Join Date: Jun 2007

Location: SFO

Programs: UA Plat 1.995MM, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Plat/LT Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Plat

Posts: 66,831

Quote:

Originally Posted by hotelfanatic

As a Premier Silver, you have access to XN award inventory. (as do all elites and certain credit card holders). This is also called saver award inventory. There is also standard award inventory YN/HN at the higher mileage.

Appears you found some XN inventory on those flights but it has all been used.
Will UA replenish? Perhaps, perhaps not. You will need to check regularly

Feb 10, 2022, 8:11 pm

#78

aimango

Join Date: May 2016

Location: NYC

Posts: 265

I have Silver, P2 has no status. If P2 has to book the flight for us, will we be able to select priority seats upon booking due to me holding status?

Feb 10, 2022, 8:30 pm

#79

WineCountryUA

Moderator: United Airlines

Join Date: Jun 2007

Location: SFO

Programs: UA Plat 1.995MM, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Plat/LT Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Plat

Posts: 66,831

Quote:

Originally Posted by aimango

I have Silver, P2 has no status. If P2 has to book the flight for us, will we be able to select priority seats upon booking due to me holding status?

If on the same PNR and your UA MP account is on your reservation, as Silver, you will be able to select preferred seats at booking and E+ seats at check-in for both of you. Who books or pays does not matter.

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Feb 12, 2022, 4:24 pm

#80

Wooglin

Join Date: Jan 2016

Location: CLE (mostly)

Programs: UA Plat, Hyatt Explorist, Mlife Gold, Starbucks Gold

Posts: 823

I'm trying to book 7 pax from CLE-ORD-HNL in F, but the CLE-ORD leg is an E170 that only has 6 seats in First, so at least one of us obviously has to be in E on that leg.

The UA website seems unable to, and only offers a mixed-cabin ticket that puts all 7 of us in E for that leg (for the same per-ticket price as booking 6x directly into F)

Is it possible to book this on a single PNR if I call UA?

Last edited by Wooglin; Feb 12, 2022 at 4:35 pm

Feb 12, 2022, 4:29 pm

#81

WineCountryUA

Moderator: United Airlines

Join Date: Jun 2007

Location: SFO

Programs: UA Plat 1.995MM, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Plat/LT Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Plat

Posts: 66,831

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wooglin

I'm trying to book 7 pax from CLE-ORD-HNL in F, but the CLE-ORD leg is an E170 that only has 6 seats in First, so at least one of us obviously has to be in E on that leg.

The UA website seems unable to, and only offers a mixed-cabin ticket that puts all 7 of us in E for that leg (for the same ticket price as booking 6x directly into F)

Is it possible to book this on a single PNR if I call UA?

No
All passengers on a PNR must have the same flights, same fare class, ...
While being on the same PNR has some benefits, it is generally minimal. Elite bag allowance is probably the most meaningful and that can be manged by moving bags to those with the allowance and a few without.

Feb 12, 2022, 4:30 pm

#82

LifetimeGS

Join Date: Feb 2020

Location: BOS/SFO

Programs: United 4MM GS, Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, Hilton Lifetime Diamond

Posts: 307

No unfortunately, all passengers in the PNR have to have the same underlying fare

Feb 13, 2022, 10:51 am

#83

lamphs

Join Date: Jun 2008

Posts: 2,203

Good afternoon. I realize that physical *G cards no longer exist. What experiences are members having access to non-UA lounges without a physical *G card? Backstory - I am flying ET using Lifemiles. I'd prefer the better *G lounge at ADD. The ET rep was unable to associate my UA # with the booking as it already has my AV #. Thanks!

Feb 13, 2022, 10:59 am

#84

WineCountryUA

Moderator: United Airlines

Join Date: Jun 2007

Location: SFO

Programs: UA Plat 1.995MM, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Plat/LT Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Plat

Posts: 66,831

Quote:

Originally Posted by lamphs

The virtual card in the smartphone apps should work. As protection in case you do not have phone service, screen capture the card image

Virtual card has been acceptable form of access since well before COVID.
Recent Denials of admission to *A Lounges due to lack of UA *G card [2019-2020]

As far as changing the FF account, best to do that with the issuing carrier but not all programs will do this.

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Feb 14, 2022, 1:39 am

#85

eng3

Join Date: Aug 2008

Location: PHL

Programs: UA 1K 1MM, Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum, Raddison Platinum, Avis Presidents Club

Posts: 5,268

Booked a 016 ticket with a LH segment. I upgraded the LH segment on lh.com. Now on UA, it shows the segment twice, once with the original class, the other with the upgraded class. On the app, under "trip details" not reservations, it lists two travelers (my name twice).

Anything that needs to be corrected? Don't want an agent/system dropping my upgraded segment or something

Feb 14, 2022, 9:00 am

#86

Clemson

Join Date: Oct 2021

Location: Bay Area

Posts: 344

I have two upcoming flights SFO-EWR. I think originally they were scheduled on a 777 without premium economy though they have since been swapped for planes with premium economy. I can book a new ticket in premium economy for those flights, but for my existing tickets I only have a buy-up offer for F. Should I expect that to change at all as departure gets closer or is this some IT quirk?

Feb 14, 2022, 10:56 am

#87

JimInOhio

Join Date: Jun 2014

Programs: UA MM

Posts: 4,118

Quote:

Originally Posted by eng3

I doubt it's an issue. Have you checked to see how your reservation displays on the United iPhone/Android app?

Feb 14, 2022, 11:01 am

#88

WineCountryUA

Moderator: United Airlines

Join Date: Jun 2007

Location: SFO

Programs: UA Plat 1.995MM, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Plat/LT Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Plat

Posts: 66,831

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clemson

You should be able to do a change flight and see what the upfare would be. An agent can also do this.

Feb 14, 2022, 12:33 pm

#89

eng3

Join Date: Aug 2008

Location: PHL

Programs: UA 1K 1MM, Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum, Raddison Platinum, Avis Presidents Club

Posts: 5,268

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimInOhio

I doubt it's an issue. Have you checked to see how your reservation displays on the United iPhone/Android app?

same

Feb 16, 2022, 7:43 pm

#90

angetenar

Join Date: Feb 2022

Location: LAX

Programs: UA

Posts: 1,531

Greetings everyone. I just booked on flight on United's website, and the charge has showed up as pending on my credit card. However, under the trip details section on the United website, it still says

Quote:

Ticket status: not ticketed

We will hold this reservation until Fri, Jun 17, 2022 Purchase now

and the purchase now just redirects to the website homepage. I also still haven't received the eTicket Itinerary and Receipt for Confirmation email that I normally get from United. Is this something that I need to call about? Or will it work itself out with some time? Thanks!