Cheap UA Fare
 

All this talk about least expensive elite qualification, etc. has me wondering....

What's the cheapest UA fare either one way or round trip in the US right now???

Just curious!

SFO-RNO

78.00 Round Trip

[This message has been edited by Dawoz (edited 09-14-2000).]

Dawoz,

Just how do you know that fare between SFO and Reno is the lowest? Is there a special program to figure that out? Or are you just smart!

Dan

Reno to Las Vegas has always been a good deal, too. I did that last week on a 7 day advance purchase at $44 one way plus taxes.

It's a Southwest route, so they have to be competitive. UA makes you connect at LAX, where Southwest does it nonstop.

Wow that is not bad... $88 RT and you get 4 segments.... so if you were 12 segments short for qualification. you can get it for less than $275... and some time.. but not that bad.....

dhammer53-

I'm just that good. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

And......I happened to be thumbing through yesterdays SF Cronicle and found a full page add with a few UAL fares that are on sale highlighted.

All were from SFO:

Anchorage 348
Atlanta 498
Austin 248
Boise 168
Boston 598
Burbank 98
Chicago 398
Dallas/Ft. Worth 248
Denver 198
Honolulu 398
Houston 298
Indianapolis 398
Las Vegas 108
Los Angelas 98
Miami 598
NYC 598
Ontario 88
Orange County 148
Orlando 598
Philadelphia 598
Pheonix 148
Portland 118
Reno 78
San Diego 98
Santa Barbara 108
Spokane 198
Tampa 598
Washington DC 598
Dusseldorf 568
Frankfurt 568
London 378
Milan 468
Paris 448


You get the picture http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

It's interesting that some of the fares in the newspaper ad (it was in Wednesday's New York Times as well) had SFO and LAX pricing HIGHER then when I checked on the www.ual.com site for fares.

Not much but like 20-30 dollars.

Maybe because booking on-line has the 5 percent INternet booking discount kicking in.

So it might be the same fare.

Are all taxes and fees included in the $78 SFO-RNO fare? The ad in the WSJ a couple of days ago excluded some of the additional fees. So, I'll re-phrase the original Chix's question: what is the cheapest fare, INCLUDING all taxes and fees?

I have since disposed of the ad.

I don't recall reading if it included taxes or not. I DO remember it saying something similar to "save an additional 5% by using ual.com".

Dawoz -
Thanks for taking the time to type in all those fares. I missed that ad in the Chron! 'Preciate it! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
-levi

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The ads in the Tuesday SF Chronicle did not include taxes. The $378 London fare, when you factored in taxes and the 5% web discount, worked out to $447.

LAX-LAS midweek is $79 including all taxes, fees, surcharges, gratuities, graft, and corruption.

From what I have gathered so far, the best fare for a RT segment run is:

RNO - LAS = 4 segments @ $94.00 incl. taxes

IAD - SHD = 2 segments @ $86.00 incl. taxes (UAX so full 500 per segment)

If time is important, the RT IAD-SHD can be done in about 3 hours total and requires only a 3 day adv. purchase, no Sat. stay.

You are much more subject to delays for the RNO - LAS run as you have to go through SFO and it requires a 7 day adv. purchase.

Chix: What is SHD? It's not in my just-expired UA schedule http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/confused.gif.

I think I remember reading this in the Denver Post.... the article mentioned that the new $20 Fuel Surcharge will not be applicable to this fare sale.