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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 #1160 on: February 05, 2015, 01:00:52 PM »
I'm not a member if the 1K club. What's GS?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1161 on: February 05, 2015, 01:01:37 PM »
Oy. All these new abbreviations!
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1162 on: February 05, 2015, 01:01:45 PM »
I'm not a member if the 1K club. What's GS?
You don't have it either. Global Services is higher than 1k.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1163 on: February 05, 2015, 01:03:19 PM »
Unfortunately not. Just the United Explorer card.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1164 on: February 05, 2015, 01:03:42 PM »
FTFY?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1166 on: February 05, 2015, 01:06:22 PM »
:-)
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1167 on: February 09, 2015, 11:44:45 AM »
This was mentioned up thread, but I just booked a plan b in less than 5 mins on phone.

Booked a date with availability in J, then asked to switch. Seems to make it much easier on the agent this way.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1168 on: February 09, 2015, 11:48:59 AM »
This was mentioned up thread, but I just booked a plan b in less than 5 mins on phone.

Booked a date with availability in J, then asked to switch. Seems to make it much easier on the agent this way.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1169 on: February 09, 2015, 11:49:24 AM »
LIH
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1171 on: February 09, 2015, 12:03:56 PM »
This was mentioned up thread, but I just booked a plan b in less than 5 mins on phone.

Booked a date with availability in J, then asked to switch. Seems to make it much easier on the agent this way.
Didn't take any pushing to get them to switch to a date with just coach?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1172 on: February 09, 2015, 12:20:08 PM »
Didn't take any pushing to get them to switch to a date with just coach?

Nope. She mentioned that there is only X on that day, and I said, that's fine, you can just waitlist me for I.  When I tried to explain the process, she said "I know the procedure, just want to make sure you know what's happening." So, she just made an "even exchange" and waitlisted business. Much more seamless this way.





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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1173 on: February 09, 2015, 12:22:55 PM »
Nope. She mentioned that there is only X on that day, and I said, that's fine, you can just waitlist me for I.  When I tried to explain the process, she said "I know the procedure, just want to make sure you know what's happening." So, she just made an "even exchange" and waitlisted business. Much more seamless this way.


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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1174 on: February 09, 2015, 12:24:47 PM »
Nope. She mentioned that there is only X on that day, and I said, that's fine, you can just waitlist me for I.  When I tried to explain the process, she said "I know the procedure, just want to make sure you know what's happening." So, she just made an "even exchange" and waitlisted business. Much more seamless this way.



Yup, helps that you got an ex-con agent.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1175 on: February 09, 2015, 12:29:53 PM »
Hopefully you get it, but will you actually fly if you are in Y?

Yes. But I'm gonna get it ;)

Yup, helps that you got an ex-con agent.

When she first picked up, she sounded very amateur, and didn't have much hope for success. Alas, she surprised me.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1176 on: February 09, 2015, 12:32:13 PM »
Yes. But I'm gonna get it ;)

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I don't doubt it.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1177 on: February 09, 2015, 12:35:08 PM »
It's worth the extra 20K pp by using UA miles to have Plan B as an option than it is to use SQ?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1178 on: February 09, 2015, 12:43:21 PM »
It's worth the extra 20K pp by using UA miles to have Plan B as an option than it is to use SQ?
If that gets you in J - and on this route, this is sometimes you're only option - I'd say it's worth it.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1179 on: February 09, 2015, 12:56:01 PM »
For me it's only 10K PP as I'm only doing one-way. And on my date, there is little chance that it'd open for J straight up. So for me, it's without a doubt worth the extra 10K for access to lie-flat J on a flight that can be twice as long as NYC-LHR.
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