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"You may redeem miles for travel in United Global FirstSM, United First®, United Business® or United BusinessFirst® , even if the space is not available. In these cases, United Economy in the same award type must be confirmed, and the front cabin will be waitlisted. For example, a Saver United First award must be confirmed in Saver United Economy to be eligible for waitlisting. If the courtesy waitlist does not clear, it will expire 24 hours before itinerary departure, and you will automatically be added to the airport upgrade standby list upon check-in. In these cases, you will be confirmed on a space-available basis by a United airport representative at the gate once the flight has closed for check-in. For United BusinessFirst and United Business travel awards, the difference in miles will be refunded when the United BusinessFirst or United Business class segment of the trip could not be confirmed. Waitlist requests may only be made over the phone with your local United Reservations office"


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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1000 on: January 04, 2015, 03:50:01 AM »
He may not know, but IN is for elites only, and he is elite. Only XN is for cardholders.
well that explains it - thanks.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1002 on: January 04, 2015, 12:03:45 PM »
Well now i know as well.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1003 on: January 04, 2015, 04:26:37 PM »
On the phone with UA doing a Plan B right now - my first time - so nervous!  Wish me luck!

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1004 on: January 04, 2015, 04:32:19 PM »
GL

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1006 on: January 04, 2015, 04:37:44 PM »
On the phone with UA doing a Plan B right now - my first time - so nervous!  Wish me luck!
Ha Ha do they know what your talking about?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1007 on: January 04, 2015, 04:39:36 PM »
Ha Ha do they know what your talking about?

Not at first but I think she go it and she's pretty far into the process although she has put me on hold 5 or 6 times already.  I'll keep you posted! Getting set up is only the first hurdle, getting the space cleared in another!

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1008 on: January 04, 2015, 07:04:06 PM »
On the following routing:

1) LAX-JFK(stop) on UA
2) EWR-IST-TLV on partner
3) TLV-EWR on UA

Can I plan B both 1 and 3?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1009 on: January 04, 2015, 07:04:49 PM »
Sure
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1010 on: January 04, 2015, 09:05:31 PM »
Sure

Set up plan be on:
TLV-EWR-PBI on Oct 5th (end of Succos). Business wide open. Think it will get cleared?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1011 on: January 04, 2015, 09:05:55 PM »
Set up plan be on:
TLV-EWR-PBI on Oct 5th (end of Succos). Business wide open. Think it will get cleared?

Meant Plan B!

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1012 on: January 04, 2015, 10:15:36 PM »
Look good?



Miles for the second Plan B have not been taken from my account, but the rep--who, for the record, seemed very confident and knew exactly the Plan B procedure--said it that it is a manual process and may take up to 24 hours for the additional miles to be taken from my account. My recollection from reading this thread is that the miles were taken immediately. Need I be concerned?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1013 on: January 04, 2015, 10:22:30 PM »
Meant Plan B!
These flights are usually completely sold out weeks before Succos.... So UA might wanna keep all the seats for revenue customers..
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1014 on: January 04, 2015, 10:38:00 PM »
Look good?



Miles for the second Plan B have not been taken from my account, but the rep--who, for the record, seemed very confident and knew exactly the Plan B procedure--said it that it is a manual process and may take up to 24 hours for the additional miles to be taken from my account. My recollection from reading this thread is that the miles were taken immediately. Need I be concerned?

Also, does a Plan B need to completed within 24 hours of ticketing to avoid a change fee, or can it be done anytime?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1015 on: January 04, 2015, 10:41:27 PM »
Look good?



Miles for the second Plan B have not been taken from my account, but the rep--who, for the record, seemed very confident and knew exactly the Plan B procedure--said it that it is a manual process and may take up to 24 hours for the additional miles to be taken from my account. My recollection from reading this thread is that the miles were taken immediately. Need I be concerned?
No. They are not always deducted immediately.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1016 on: January 04, 2015, 10:42:04 PM »
No. They are not always deducted immediately.

Thanks. I'll sleep easier tonight :)
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1017 on: January 04, 2015, 11:08:58 PM »
Actually, I'm confused.

For HNL-EWR (in UA Y) // JFK-IST-TLV (on TK J) // TLV-EWR (on UA Y) they deducted 127.5K p/p and I'm not sure why...

Any thoughts?

Hawaii-Middle east in J = 75K
ME-USA = 70K.
 
But they didn't take 145K.

Nor did they take what would have been taken had I not done Plan B, which would have been 75K + 42.5K = 117.5K...

 ???
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1018 on: January 04, 2015, 11:14:16 PM »
how much is partner award?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1019 on: January 04, 2015, 11:16:34 PM »
Actually, I'm confused.

For HNL-EWR (in UA Y) // JFK-IST-TLV (on TK J) // TLV-EWR (on UA Y) they deducted 127.5K p/p and I'm not sure why...

Any thoughts?

Hawaii-Middle east in J = 75K
ME-USA = 70K.
 
But they didn't take 145K.

Nor did they take what would have been taken had I not done Plan B, which would have been 75K + 42.5K = 117.5K...

 ???
Partner award HI-ME J = 85k.

ME-USA Y = 42.5k.

85k + 42.5k = 127.5k

Seems like they didn't deduct for the ME-USA leg