Redeemed LX C Seat on F Award. Options to change?
Jun 4, 2010, 8:57 am
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Redeemed LX C Seat on F Award. Options to change?
Hello,
I'm currently scheduled to fly my last LX segment in C even though it's an F award. My chances of an upgrade in advance are fairly low as expertflyer is only reporting F2 O0 right now.
I have expertflyer scanning for an O seat, but I'm curious if their is anway to get UA to fix the seat once travel begins or to convice LX that they should honor my F award should a seat become available?
The agent gave me a "Technically No" response, but I never take no for a final answer the first time around.
Thoughts ?
TIA
Mudba
I'm currently scheduled to fly my last LX segment in C even though it's an F award. My chances of an upgrade in advance are fairly low as expertflyer is only reporting F2 O0 right now.
I have expertflyer scanning for an O seat, but I'm curious if their is anway to get UA to fix the seat once travel begins or to convice LX that they should honor my F award should a seat become available?
The agent gave me a "Technically No" response, but I never take no for a final answer the first time around.
Thoughts ?
TIA
Mudba
Jun 4, 2010, 9:29 am
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Nope, no way unless you switch to UA flights. LX has no idea what "award" level you are on. You are booked and confirmed in C.
Jun 4, 2010, 11:37 am
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Once you begin travel on a *A award no changes are permitted to any partner airline flights..even if award F space opened up you would not be able to snag it. If you really want to fly F you could change the rest of your itinerary to all UA if there is XF space available.
Jun 6, 2010, 7:11 am
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They know darn well which award level you are on based on the fare calculation on the e-ticket which they can view. The issue is they don't care and might not be able to change it even if they wanted to.
Jun 7, 2010, 3:43 pm
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So building on this, can anyone cite experience trying to get a *A carrier to change the class mid-trip (most likely at the gate)? Anyone asked and been denied/successful?
Jun 7, 2010, 3:46 pm
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They know darn well which award level you are on based on the fare calculation on the e-ticket which they can view. The issue is they don't care and might not be able to change it even if they wanted to.
Originally Posted by denverhockeyguy
Nope, no way unless you switch to UA flights. LX has no idea what "award" level you are on. You are booked and confirmed in C.
Nope, no way unless you switch to UA flights. LX has no idea what "award" level you are on. You are booked and confirmed in C.
Originally Posted by FBKSan
So building on this, can anyone cite experience trying to get a carrier to change the class mid-trip (most likely at the gate)? Anyone asked and been denied/successful?
So building on this, can anyone cite experience trying to get a carrier to change the class mid-trip (most likely at the gate)? Anyone asked and been denied/successful?
Jun 7, 2010, 9:08 pm
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It is all depends if UA see the avaibility than any *A carrier seats open up.
Like for me, OZ open up F seat at checkin, but all they are saying is they can't say yes until UA say yes. In the end, UA say they can't see any O class inventory on my flight with OZ.
Last edited by ORDnHKG; Jun 7, 2010 at 9:14 pm