Hey,
Maybe someone can help me. I booked a saver award economy ticket from Newark - TLV. I called in within 24 hours to try and book a "Plan B" ticket. The woman seemed to know what she was doing, as she said that she needs to take the additional points from my account now. The only problem is, that she quoted the wrong amount. An Economy saver is 42,500 points, while Business saver is 70,000, so I needed to shell out an additional 27,500. However, she said that she needs to take 17,500 (I didn't object, thinking that perhaps I can get away with it, and save 10,000 points.) She took the points and waitlisted me for Business.
A few questions:
1) Since she took the wrong amount of points, will this prevent me from being considered a "displaced business class passenger", and will I merely be just another guy on the waitlist for business?
2) If you look at the attachments below, you'll see that in the first one, the waitlist shows as a separate flight segment, whereas in the second attachment, it shows in the same segment with "(I class requested)" (as Dan showed in his post). This came up 2 different times, when I signed in to my United account. Does that make a difference?
3) She only waitlisted me for "I" class, instead of "IN". I have an Explorer card, does this make a difference?
Sorry to be so long-winded, and thanks in advance for the help.