So I just went on-line to buy it, and it told me this..

Non-US Addresses
Currently, United Travel enhancements is only available to customers with addresses in the United States.


Hmmmmm

That's correct. Do you have a US credit card perhaps as well as a US mailing address?

Unfortunatly, no.

Under DM no sweeps can happen anyway.

Or do you mean that a lounge agent can prevent the sweet at any time before the DM?

That is what I suggested in post #12. And you also list the major issue: other than a US 1K agent, I never ran into any UA agent who knew what FQTS or FQTV entries are. Not even under other names such as "mileage credit to Miles&More, status to MP".

So if I do this in SIN or SYD, I regularly get my meal choices last :( .

Again UA's problem #1 (actually problem #1 through #20) are their call centres :td:.

Okay, so to UPDATE..
What I decided to do was get my husband to buy the E+ package. He doesn't have any status and doesn't collect status miles so he doesn't care his flights to europe will be credited on his mileage plus. This way I will get to sit in E+ With him, and still get my miles credited to Air Canada, where I collect my points!
Perfect!!! :D:D

Also, somehow, It let processed my E+, even though I have a Canadian Credit Card. Oh Well.

Yeah, and I've never understood this. What POSSIBLE reason could they have for this restriction???

Sometimes it seems like United is allergic to revenue... :rolleyes:

I was just looking at buying E+ access myself today, so I was surprised to see this thread is only 2 days old.

I'm US Chairmans, so I have the same problem. The summary I took away from this thread is "yes, you can do it, but it's a giant pain and be prepared to devote at least an hour of your life to phone calls every time you want to fly on United". Is that basically correct?

It's ridiculous - if I'm going to spend the cash for E+ access with UA, why should I have to go through this? It's not going to get me to change my FF status to United (they don't operate from my home airport). As far as I can tell, this policy is actually bad for UA, since it means they lose out on my E+ membership fee.

Spot on.

The official reason why the US 1K lines are no longer allowed to accept foreign credit cards are the minimally higher surcharges these cards imply for the seller (SQ illegally solves that issue by issuing the tix in your home currency at a very
disadvantageous exchange rate ... for you).

However if they do not notice it, it always goes through smoothly. I always buy my awards from the US line, and united.com doesn't notice either of a credit card is alien.

Are you serious?

How can an international airline not allow non-US credit cards?
This is LUNACY!

Unbelievable.

I am not kidding you g_leyser! I am dead serious.

And it is a major lunacy, as I even offered them to pay the credit card penalty which is permissible for Australian CCs - hence removing all possible cost factors for UA - but they would not bite.

Last year I bought an Asiana ticket for which I had to do a reroute. I could pay all charges on the phone with a Korean agent. Foreign card, no local address (I mean UA knows my card and address for 10+ years), agent hardly spoke English ... no problem.
But when talking to a 1K agent ... no way :rolleyes::td:.

If PayPal, Amazon, and so many other merchants can take it .. why not UA???