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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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Author Topic: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability  (Read 507469 times)

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1080 on: January 19, 2015, 09:28:20 AM »
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Thats why. Within 24 hours it changes to R class requested. You're good.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1081 on: January 19, 2015, 09:28:57 AM »
Mention it as you checkin at the regular economy checkin, I've had success there. Since there were 3 seats still available for sale, the guy cleared me into Business without waitlististing me.
Nice! Where was this in EWR?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1082 on: January 19, 2015, 09:40:03 AM »
Plan on heading out of lkwd around 6pm(ish) for 10:45pm flight. Too late?
The earlier the better.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1083 on: January 19, 2015, 10:02:11 AM »
Nice! Where was this in EWR?
Yes. out of EWR. I went the night before and got bounced around from one person to another, and didnt get anywhere. There is an Israeli lady who works at the UA special services desk that was rude and not very helpful and told me I was wasting my time. so when I went the next day I sort of gave up, so I just went to the regular checkin and just mentioned it to the guy working there and he looks at his computer and says "I see it, would you like to sit in seat 5k?" .... that is my experience.  p.s. it was on the ewr-tlv route

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1084 on: January 19, 2015, 10:52:52 PM »
I didn't get it for the way there ewr-tlv how do I get my miles back?

Any tips for tlv-ewr?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1085 on: January 20, 2015, 10:44:38 AM »
I didn't get it for the way there ewr-tlv how do I get my miles back?
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IME should be automatic, but you can PUTPAC if you don't see it automatically in a day or two.
Any tips for tlv-ewr?
Haven't seen any reported success. A couple people were going to try, but they rebooked on USAirways, so we won't find out. When's your flight? Why didn't you get it EWR-TLV?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1086 on: January 21, 2015, 03:01:24 AM »
Haven't seen any reported success. A couple people were going to try, but they rebooked on USAirways, so we won't find out. When's your flight? Why didn't you get it EWR-TLV?

Went to like 5 agents one tried but couldn't get me on the list the other's claimed they can't touch award bookings. :(

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1087 on: January 21, 2015, 03:02:20 AM »
Went to like 5 agents one tried but couldn't get me on the list the other's claimed they can't touch award bookings. :(
Did you try in the UA Club?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1088 on: January 21, 2015, 07:59:46 AM »
I didn't get it for the way there ewr-tlv how do I get my miles back?

Any tips for tlv-ewr?
your going to have to call united to get the refund

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1089 on: January 21, 2015, 09:31:54 AM »
Did you try in the UA Club?

I first went to terminal A at EWR bec they are domestic and I was hoping they would be clueless and just seat me in the open business seats. They said they don't do international ( I know they do bec I have checked in there for tlv flights before)

I then went to terminal C economy check in they knew about plan b and straight asked me "Where you seated in business or just wait listed??" I just played dumb and kept repeating I don't know I was told I should ask for "ggoneupgrade" (or whatever Dan says in the post I had it open on my phone the whole time) she eventually with enough schmoozing up (she just got back from Cancun was there for a wedding) she agreed to p-1 wait list me but she claimed the system wouldn't let her she claims she even called the "help desk" (not sure if that's good or bad)

I then went to the premier access check in (bad idea) she claimed award says I can't be wait listed bec they never took the miles for business from my account and they couldn't take the 175K necessary at that time bec my balance was less then that.

So I figured I'll try the lounge (side note it was PACKED with yidden) she was really sweet and said she will try but as soon as she looked at my reservation in the system she saw the notes from the premier access agent and just stated word for word what she told me/wrote in the notes.

So dead end and cattle class for me :) :) yay!!

Although I did take I forgot who's advice and made sure I had normal seats in economy just in case.

Now I have to work on my trip back. I'm confirmed on tlv-ewr 11am on 1/27 and wait listed for I on that fought and the 11pm (the one I really want but can't get on it yet [I have a wedding that night in tel Aviv]) any ideas??

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1090 on: January 21, 2015, 09:34:45 AM »
I then went to the premier access check in (bad idea) she claimed award says I can't be wait listed bec they never took the miles for business from my account and they couldn't take the 175K necessary at that time bec my balance was less then that.

So, if this is true, then your Plan B was not setup correctly and it makes sense you were not given PR-1.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1091 on: January 21, 2015, 09:40:06 AM »
your going to have to call united to get the refund

Who? Do u have the number? Abby specifics I should mention??

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1092 on: January 24, 2015, 11:01:01 PM »
There is availability in Economy, and I want to do Plan B, But when I checked on United.com there is no seats in business even for money.

Will I be able to do the wait list? Is there a possibility that it will open up?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1093 on: January 24, 2015, 11:15:50 PM »
is it better to go straight to the lounge at EWR to get PR1 or try econ desk first?  IS there anyone specifically to avoid?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1094 on: January 25, 2015, 12:04:36 AM »
is it better to go straight to the lounge at EWR to get PR1 or try econ desk first?  IS there anyone specifically to avoid?
Avoid business class check in. I would go to the lounge first. You can always go back to economy check-in.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1095 on: January 25, 2015, 09:58:51 AM »
There is availability in Economy, and I want to do Plan B, But when I checked on United.com there is no seats in business even for money.

Will I be able to do the wait list? Is there a possibility that it will open up?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1096 on: January 25, 2015, 10:19:53 AM »
There is availability in Economy, and I want to do Plan B, But when I checked on United.com there is no seats in business even for money.

Will I be able to do the wait list? Is there a possibility that it will open up?

You need there to be a business seat empty but even then that might not mean anything.
You need there to be X or XN seats available for redemption on the flight you want to wait list.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1097 on: January 25, 2015, 11:51:18 AM »
I have a plan B booking out of EWR on Wednesday. With the blizzard on Tuesday there might be many flight cancelations. Do I still have any chances of getting a business seat?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1098 on: January 26, 2015, 10:36:55 AM »
I made a Plan B ticket and it looked regular with the IN request.
Now when I log in it shows me 2 exact itineraries 1. in XN   2. in IN
What does that mean?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1099 on: January 26, 2015, 11:57:58 AM »
I made a Plan B ticket and it looked regular with the IN request.
Now when I log in it shows me 2 exact itineraries 1. in XN   2. in IN
What does that mean?

2 separate itineraries or when you look at seats it shows your 2 flights?
how many tickets did you book?