Constructing a specific connection for e-cert
Sep 14, 2010 | 8:06 pm
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Constructing a specific connection for e-cert
I don't understand how to construct a specific connection on united.com. I have an e-cert that I want to apply to MIA-ORD-SFO with an overnight (<23-hr) in ORD. united.com wants to construct more "optimal" connections and applies my e-cert to the aggregate fare. If I do it as a multi-leg, the e-cert doesn't apply. If I do 2 one-ways, it applies against one and not the other.
Can I construct a specific connection to do what I want?
Thanks.
Can I construct a specific connection to do what I want?
Thanks.
Sep 14, 2010 | 8:07 pm
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Anything over four hours domestically is a stopover, not a connection. Most e-certs do not work on circle trips.
Sep 14, 2010 | 8:22 pm
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Check your PMs.
Sep 14, 2010 | 11:09 pm
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Correct. And in most cases, the stopover will require a higher fare anyway, often significant. I had a recent connection through ORD, where I had to change the date, and was trying at the same time to investigate the cost of taking a flight that arrived early morning into ORD, then leaving ORD on the last flight of the evening. While I could do the change to a connection within 4 hours for just the $150 change fee, the stopover was going to cost $600, owing to the fact that the itinerary was no longer going to be an XXX-ORD-YYY fare, but a XXX-ORD and then ORD-YYY fare.