"Exclusive Saver Award inventory" a useful 1k benefit?
Nov 28, 2006, 4:14 pm
#1
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"Exclusive Saver Award inventory" a useful 1k benefit?
Is the above stated benefit useful?
Does it work in practice or is it idle rhetoric?
I'm after 3 or 4 seats on a very busy holiday route for july next year thats only showing 1 seat and has been for a while (on UA metal). Would being 1k magically open up a delirium of award seats?
Thanks.
YES - I tried the search, NO luck at all...
Does it work in practice or is it idle rhetoric?
I'm after 3 or 4 seats on a very busy holiday route for july next year thats only showing 1 seat and has been for a while (on UA metal). Would being 1k magically open up a delirium of award seats?
Thanks.
YES - I tried the search, NO luck at all...
Nov 28, 2006, 4:27 pm
#2
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NY seats are only available for domestic award (or so I've heard), so if you are looking for Int'l flights, you are SOL.
Nov 28, 2006, 4:29 pm
#3
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NY inventory is now viewable on united.com. Search for a standard award (yes STANDARD), and mouse over the "show flight details" link. All classes (revenue and award) are shown.
Nov 28, 2006, 4:57 pm
#4
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Originally Posted by chrisw
NY inventory is now viewable on united.com. Search for a standard award (yes STANDARD), and mouse over the "show flight details" link. All classes (revenue and award) are shown.
Nov 28, 2006, 5:05 pm
#5
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Originally Posted by kkjay77
NY seats are only available for domestic award (or so I've heard), so if you are looking for Int'l flights, you are SOL.
Nov 28, 2006, 5:17 pm
#6
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You can also use www.seatcounter.com to take a look at saver/1k award availability. Enter "UA" as the airline in TWO boxes to see award and upgrade codes.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with this, I have to say I have seldom seen cases where the number of seats available for 1Ks differed by more than one or two seats from those available for everyone. So it's a nice perk, but I wouldn't call it a "delirium of award seats."
Good luck.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with this, I have to say I have seldom seen cases where the number of seats available for 1Ks differed by more than one or two seats from those available for everyone. So it's a nice perk, but I wouldn't call it a "delirium of award seats."
Good luck.
Nov 28, 2006, 6:51 pm
#7
Join Date: May 2006
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It was certainly a useful benefit for me when there were two NY but no XY on award travel for my parents last week.
Saved my bacon (and my miles).
Saved my bacon (and my miles).
Nov 28, 2006, 6:55 pm
#8
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I noticed that on the new site, if you are logged in as a 1K, you are booked in NY even if XY is available. If you are logged in as anything else, you are booked in XY.
Nov 28, 2006, 8:23 pm
#9
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I wish that UA would release some C/F inventory too. It seems a waste to offer a bonus of free economy seats. If you're a 1K, you probably already have the means to purchase an economy seat. Instead, I'd appreciate a benefit like 1 C seat a year as opposed to the extra Y inventory.
Nov 28, 2006, 8:28 pm
#10
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here here, that would be a true benifit if they added 1K only C/F award buckets! Who wants to fly Y?
Nov 28, 2006, 8:37 pm
#11
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Originally Posted by ryan182
here here, that would be a true benifit if they added 1K only C/F award buckets! Who wants to fly Y?
The N bucket for 1K's has been marginally useful to me, but it has helped in a couple of situations.
Nov 28, 2006, 9:06 pm
#12
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Originally Posted by ryan182
here here, that would be a true benifit if they added 1K only C/F award buckets! Who wants to fly Y?
(Side note, 1Ks CAN book the NY inventory for others, as I did for the above trip...But the miles do have to come out of the 1K's account).
Nov 29, 2006, 1:03 am
#13
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Originally Posted by MBS PremExec
(Side note, 1Ks CAN book the NY inventory for others, as I did for the above trip...But the miles do have to come out of the 1K's account).
Have a lot of other people had success booking an NY seat for others? How about for others NOT traveling with you?
Nov 29, 2006, 2:54 am
#14
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Nov 29, 2006, 3:16 am
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Originally Posted by JBlaine
I think this perception might be misleading. I played around with some dummy bookings tonight and found international flights with NC4, XC0. So apparently, there are extra award seats in C for 1K. Also saw a NF2, XF0 for a SYD-SFO flight.