October 29, 2010 - One-Way Star Alliance Awards Are Now Available
Oct 29, 2010, 11:22 pm
#91
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Portland, OR
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As long as StarNet Blocking stays minimal or non-existant, UA miles just got a LOT more valuable for me. Even though Award Accelerator is a bit of a rip, it has on occassion spit out 0.024-ish RDM price points before to get 11-13k miles; considering thats now a domestic one-way around on any *A partner, I'm suddenly more interested in that. It also allows me to do a cross-Pacific/cross-Altantic return as two separate tickets round-the-world-like ticket should I so choose.
While I still expect to be earning and redeeming miles on US via Grand Slam and the like, just due to US not having *net blocking, the future of UA is looking brighter as an elite. Add some good ways to earn more miles via non-flying,
Oct 30, 2010, 4:11 am
#92
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Glad to see it's all official. This allows a lot more flexibility if you got some miles spread out across alliances, like others have said.
Oct 30, 2010, 6:43 am
#93
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Question, how does this affect changes to trips in progress?
If you book two one-ways rather than a straight roundtrip, obviously you can make changes to the return portion after you've taken your outbound.
Has this led to any modification of the change policy on roundtrip awards, allowing changes to return after flying outbound (as Continental permits)?
If you book two one-ways rather than a straight roundtrip, obviously you can make changes to the return portion after you've taken your outbound.
Has this led to any modification of the change policy on roundtrip awards, allowing changes to return after flying outbound (as Continental permits)?
Oct 30, 2010, 7:21 am
#94
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: DTW and ORD
Posts: 667
Question, how does this affect changes to trips in progress?
If you book two one-ways rather than a straight roundtrip, obviously you can make changes to the return portion after you've taken your outbound.
Has this led to any modification of the change policy on roundtrip awards, allowing changes to return after flying outbound (as Continental permits)?
If you book two one-ways rather than a straight roundtrip, obviously you can make changes to the return portion after you've taken your outbound.
Has this led to any modification of the change policy on roundtrip awards, allowing changes to return after flying outbound (as Continental permits)?
Oct 30, 2010, 9:46 am
#95
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 396
Like the above poster, I have had a complete failure at attempting to pull off doing this online. It's nice to have it available, but I really don't want to call in to do it. Do you have to pay the phone-ticketing fee or is that waived because this particular thing is impossible to accomplish online?
Oct 30, 2010, 10:08 am
#96
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: SFO
Posts: 4,916
Like the above poster, I have had a complete failure at attempting to pull off doing this online. It's nice to have it available, but I really don't want to call in to do it. Do you have to pay the phone-ticketing fee or is that waived because this particular thing is impossible to accomplish online?
Oct 30, 2010, 10:32 am
#97
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Yes, the agent also said that you can now make changes to subsequent segments of any Star Alliance award after you've started travel.
If it really is "any award", wow, that's a really nice enhancement.
Oct 30, 2010, 11:45 am
#98
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Boise and McCall Idaho
Programs: DL, UA, AA, Hawaiian, Alaska
Posts: 245
Question, how does this affect changes to trips in progress?
If you book two one-ways rather than a straight roundtrip, obviously you can make changes to the return portion after you've taken your outbound.
Has this led to any modification of the change policy on roundtrip awards, allowing changes to return after flying outbound (as Continental permits)?
If you book two one-ways rather than a straight roundtrip, obviously you can make changes to the return portion after you've taken your outbound.
Has this led to any modification of the change policy on roundtrip awards, allowing changes to return after flying outbound (as Continental permits)?
This is meshing with a R/T award ticket we already booked PDX/SEA/FRA in LH F last week through United.
Clients use their Chase UA Visa to buy supplies for their business, had 1.5 million miles and didn't really know the value of them.
This is from the e-receipt:
Penalty: TKT VALID 1YR FROM ISSUE DATE NON END-VALID UA-STAR ONLY NO CHANGES ONCE TRAVEL BEGINS UA ONLY NO UPG/TRANS/SRW
Last edited by ddavault; Oct 30, 2010 at 3:57 pm Reason: merge
Oct 30, 2010, 11:57 am
#99
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: United Arab Emirates & Arizona, USA
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Posts: 4,527
This is a great enhancement.
Sorry to get off-topic, but did I miss something? Has UA indicated that it is retreating on StarNet blocking??
Oct 30, 2010, 12:50 pm
#100
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-blocking.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...get-lucky.html
Oct 30, 2010, 4:16 pm
#101
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There have been reports of people not running into *Net blocking (at least to the extent they expected it).
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-blocking.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...get-lucky.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-blocking.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...get-lucky.html
Oct 31, 2010, 6:44 am
#102
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Oct 31, 2010, 6:54 am
#103
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Oct 31, 2010, 11:54 am
#104
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Phoenix
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Posts: 6,112
Has anyone made a change to a RT that was in progress before this rule change?
Oct 31, 2010, 12:44 pm
#105
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Portland, Oregon
Programs: AA EXP UA 2KMM AMB
Posts: 2,400
Didn't even know about this! This is awesome!
Just booked a one way F award with a very nice agent on SQ/TG/UA combo to complete my around the world vacation.
Sweet!
Just booked a one way F award with a very nice agent on SQ/TG/UA combo to complete my around the world vacation.
Sweet!