Air Rarotonga

Well, that's a different definition and probably true... But *LH like T-14 restriction on all Oceania avaliability* ist just an unconfirmed statement!

wheresmybagba

Well as this situation has been going on for a few days - I saw all SQ dry up mid week - people have tested the hypotheses. Using MEL-SIN (A330 and 773 flights) as an example:

On the 13th...up until the 27th was showing (on KVS) then nothing.
On the 14th...up until the 28th was showing...then nothing.
Today (It's the 15th in Aus and SIN)...I can now see up until the 29th.

*I'm referring to C class availability above.

keepssmile

Tried my best to search this but can't find a firm answer -

I current have an award ticket booked, but I'd like to change the date of first segment. I know the change fee is $150, but if the first segment I'd like to change is within 21 days window, do I still need to pay $75 quick fee?

Thanks!

flyinstyle

After great conversation with great agent 5 mins ago, I was able to book flight for my party trip to Iceland in NOV... just missing the return flight and I need to call back again when it show on the screen...


BR 716I 01NOV SA TPEPEK HK1 925A 1240P /R
SK 996I 01NOV SA PEKCPH HK1 335P 635P /R

SingaporeDon

Not all cities in Australia so bad

For one Auz city - albeit closer to SIN than SYD/MEL, in the next 14 days, I can see 100% of the daily flights available in C for 6 days, 75% daily flights available on 2 days, and 50% flights available on 3 more days, and 25% available on one day. Only no availability at all on 2 days out of 14.

So although availability after T+14 has dried up, may be availability in the T-14 window has improved?? Not good if you are planning a trip with this segment as part of the longer itinerary, but if this is a stand alone trip from SIN to AUZ and you are OK to book closer to flight date, may be easier than before to bag those SQ seats in the T-14 window now??

PS - Finding similar results for MEL. Many days all flights available within the T-14 window, most days at least one available

lapointsguy

Hey folks. I know Star Alliance award bookings require stopovers to be in a hub city, but 1) does it have to be the hub city right before the international leg, and 2) can there be a co-terminal city at the hub?

I'm trying to build an itinerary with EWR-LAX (stop) BUR-SFO-NRT (dest) NFT-SFO-LAX-EWR all on United with USDM (planning to throw away LAX-EWR at the end). Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

PGHflyer

What does the "T - 14" abbreviation mean?

louie-m

14 days before travel.

blueheronNC

Had an existing reservation for *A award travel on OZ, TG, SQ and BR with a ticket number that successfully got pushed to all airlines and segments (the same ticket number for all segments). Had to swap out a segment from OZ to TG because of a schedule change, and apparently it was reissued under a new ticket #.

Thing is, while all segments OZ, TG, and SQ reflect the new ticket number, my segments on BR are still reflecting the old (cancelled) ticket number for both of my BR legs, and for one of my wife's segments (for some reason, one of her segments was updated with the new ticket #).

I assume this is problematic and I need to somehow get it corrected? The US Chairman's agent told me to wait but that it should be okay, but it's probably not workable that BR is still showing segments designated with ticket #s that are no longer in effect, right? Obviously this has to be corrected at the US/SHARES end, but how do they do it except to reissue with entirely new ticket #s yet again? Or can they do a selective re-push to BR?

NOTE that we're talking about actual ticket #s here and not PNRs. The PNRs are just record locators and pretty meaningless in relation to actual ticketing.

PVDtoDEL

As long as the BR segment(s) did not change, this is not a problem. When it is time to mark the coupon as flown , the old ticket number will still have a redirect to the relevant coupon.

Indeed, on one trip of 8 *A airlines and 6 schedule changes, I had 4 different ticket numbers printed on my various boarding passes.

blueheronNC

Thanks, I'm a bit on edge because over at the UA forums, people have reported problems checking into flights when that still linked to a now-cancelled ticket. By the time my travel comes around (Fall 2014), there will likely be absolutely nothing that US can do given the *A transition coming to an end. It's not like showing up at the airport, seeing that something is wrong, and circling up with US to re-issue/clean it up. There will be no room for error unless we get stuck somewhere that has no OW flights out.

PVDtoDEL

I think you are getting confused with out of synch reservations, which are indeed a big problem on UA. Those issues are due to the reservation status not matching the coupon status. That's not a concern here, since the BR segments did not change.

Even if BR hassled you at checkin (chances of which are approximately zero), all they would need to do is manually enter the ticket number. No US involvent required at all.

It's good that you are on top of things, but don't stress yourself out over non-issues like this.

pagotto

Any recent updates as to the enforcement of the no stopovers on an award wholly within one region? Any examples of having a stopover on an intra-Europe award?

blueheronNC

Also, should I be concerned that my itinerary for flying SFO-ICN-BKK-SIN-MLE-SIN-TPE-SFO on November 2014 is showing up on the US Reservations landing page as:

11/15/2013 - 11/16/2013
Male, Maldives Singapore, Singapore

Singapore, Singapore Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) (Incheon Int'l Airport)

Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) (Incheon Int'l Airport) Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand Singapore, Singapore

Singapore, Singapore Male, Maldives

Male, Maldives Singapore, Singapore

Singapore, Singapore Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan San Francisco, CA

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Why is it showing an 11/15/2013 start date when I booked this as of yesterday for travel next year, and why does it start in MLE and then loop back around? Also, when I go to the detailed page to show all segments, it's shows everything after MLE as "cancelled" (and has since I initially ticketed this).

I called US and they said it was important to get this cleaned up but that it would take "3-4 days". At this point, I'm tempted to just cancel the entire thing and start from scratch.

PVDtoDEL

Very concerning. Pull up the eTicket reciept on the Saudia website and verify that it is in the correct order.