akonradi

Same. Vietnam and Thailand fairly easy to find. Though at greatly reduced availability compared to what was available last night, which was virtually every flight pairing, every day.

sgan317

Yesterdays logic (and the 60k deal a few months ago) was Select *A Partner Economy (X) + UA flight = open JN for long haul
Todays new logic appears only Select *A Partner Business (I) + UA flight = open JN for some long but mostly domestic flights ... which probably makes a bit more sense long term. Maybe it will stick.

akonradi

Both yesterday's version and the one from April worked with partner sectors in I class and had plenty of availability both times. But you may be correct, that JN+X combinations are now not possible as of today. Interesting as I availability on SQ yesterday was in great supply, but now not so much.

escapefromphl

I’m noticing prices as high as 650K one way. I don’t ever recall that seeing prices quite that high?

Kmxu

Random dates search: SFO-PVG is at 700K; but PVG-SFO is cheaper at 500.8K. 😂

escapefromphl

I can no longer see anything that I could earlier today, JN+I or JN+X.

cricketer

This is the only possible way I'll ever earn 7,000 PQP for a single flight.

Kmxu

Yep! A lot of pax on PVG flight would be nicely surprised by the Premier status shown on App after the flight (wait for next year if using miles to purchase tickets). Back to PQM/PQD days, a few trips to PVG were needed to get the Premier Silver status.

Back to the topic of this thread, my December NZ trip was not impacted by schedule changes; that is, IAH-SYD-WLG/CHC-SYD-IAH were never changed, but the flights to/from IAH were changed multiple times.

rkaradi

This was not as great of a score as the one earlier this year, but I’ll take it. I was able to book late last night. Was looking for to BKK/USM/HKT/DPS to Sfo and found 3 seats on a combo of SQ and UA nonstop from Sin-Sfo, but it kept crashing at booking, so I had to settle for 2 stop connection with one segment in Y but I’ll take it. 80k each for DPS-SIN-HKG—SFO, SQ/SQ/SFO.

Went to look for other options this AM and virtually all was zeroed out,
so for now I feel like I lucked out. Just happy to find three seats at a reasonable rate.

Zoltar

What am I doing wrong? Searching from WAS looking to go anywhere (BKK/SIN/SGN/HND) and I'm seeing 270K-650K. Are there a specific set of dates I should be looking for or something else i've missed in the the thread?

It would be great to find something around Christmas time, but i've searched other dates and don't see a thing.

escapefromphl

The sale is over for the moment.

Boraxo

HEADS UP: Seeing 80k saver biz class space for SYD-SFO on December 23-24. Maybe other flights x-Australia. Unfortunately nothing the other direction but I figure this will be useful for someone who missed out on the 60k deal.

pichalite

TLDR - don't touch this ticket after its issued, if you can.

I had a schedule change for WLG-SYD-SFO and got it rescheduled for WLG-AKL-SFO. Was very happy until.. agent or system did a mess up and did not charge me miles for new ticket but refunded the original ticket.
- 2 weeks later, I used the miles in my account for another ticket
- 1 week later, received an email from United about my ticket is not issued due to insufficient miles. Status changed from ticketed to processing
- next day, United said I need to get 60k miles into my account and get it issued and that I can do it until 24 hours before departure.
- 2 weeks later I acquired the miles and contacted United for ticketing. The ticket is still existing in both UA and NZ systems but agent says its invalid and there is no availability on same date. Agent says I could travel another date but they need to reprice and after some argument, agent got authorization from supervisor to issue at 60k miles. I agreed to travel 3 days later - annoyed at the inconvenience to take additional days time off, but no other choice. After an hour and several retries with system errors, agent issued a ticket with a new PNR for 60k miles as the original PNR won't issue.

Chat agent was tone deaf, responded every 10 mins with no empathy or understanding of issue. I HUCA.
Phone agent was very understanding of the problem and empathetic but took total 2 hours to get the issue resolved.

Such an ordeal that idk if its all even worth it

Isn't 80k the regular saver fare in I class? I found multiple times 80k SFO - AKL.
Even as of today, I found 82.5k SFO-AKL during thanks giving but that might be dynamic pricing.

Kmxu

That was a system glitch, occurring around the middle of last month. United re-charged me the proper amount of miles two days later before I realized what happened. I only realized what happened after I saw the email with the re-issued tickets. I was thinking: "why did UA send me another email after the ticket was issued a few weeks earlier?"

So, it was a rare occurrence. If you had sufficient amount of miles in your account when UA re-issued your ticket, the rest of troubles could have been avoided. This is just my best guess.

escapefromphl

Yes, when it’s isolated to a few dates and no partner connector needed it’s I. I see some I around Christmas from Melbourne as well. The JN (at 60K and then 80K) only showed up when connecting to/from a partner, never just UA. Otherwise JN typically price at 200K - 700K each way.