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http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/mileageplus/awards/travel/types.aspx
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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 507642 times)

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #500 on: April 27, 2014, 10:09:06 PM »
Call and ask. I did when I was in your situation and they confirmed me in I over the phone.
I called they didn't help, I will HUCA but what exactly do I tell them?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #501 on: April 27, 2014, 10:13:48 PM »
I called they didn't help, I will HUCA but what exactly do I tell them?
Is there Saver award space?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #502 on: April 27, 2014, 10:35:54 PM »
Is there Saver award space?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #503 on: April 27, 2014, 10:36:51 PM »
Will the phone rep know what gg onestanby is?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #504 on: April 27, 2014, 10:57:10 PM »
Will the phone rep know what gg onestanby is?
No. Only at the airport - AFAIK.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #505 on: April 28, 2014, 09:50:24 AM »
Go to the airport as early as possible.
What route are you flying?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #506 on: April 28, 2014, 11:12:19 AM »
Go to the airport as early as possible.
What route are you flying?
NYC-ZRH-TLV ZRH-TLV was booked in I NYC-ZRH in x. Last night I saw there was a flight with lx that opened up business saver I called and got a nice rep that switched me to that flight in I

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #507 on: April 28, 2014, 11:20:55 AM »
Can you do plan B with partners as well? ???
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #508 on: April 28, 2014, 11:25:52 AM »
Can you do plan B with partners as well? ???
you definitely can't book it that way

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #509 on: April 28, 2014, 08:16:34 PM »
Set up Plan B for my flight (have I requested next to my award reservation) but was not ticketed yet. Is that standard procedure?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #510 on: May 06, 2014, 10:51:04 PM »
Does anyone know the chances of Plan B working for nonstop IAD-LAX? I have rarely ever seen any saver business availability, just saver economy. They are very stingy with releasing saver business availability on that route.
I am only arriving at IAD 2 hrs before the flight, because I am connecting from BRU-IAD. If it doesn't clear before 24 hours, can I go to a United gate agent at BRU and ask them to do the PR-1 status?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #511 on: May 06, 2014, 11:08:39 PM »
Does anyone know the chances of Plan B working for nonstop IAD-LAX? I have rarely ever seen any saver business availability, just saver economy. They are very stingy with releasing saver business availability on that route.
I am only arriving at IAD 2 hrs before the flight, because I am connecting from BRU-IAD. If it doesn't clear before 24 hours, can I go to a United gate agent at BRU and ask them to do the PR-1 status?
Yes.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #512 on: May 06, 2014, 11:42:02 PM »
Thanks.

Anyone have any experience with IAD-LAX opening up in Saver business?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #513 on: May 09, 2014, 12:25:54 PM »
Is Plan B only working on tickets that contain UA metals only? Can I Plan B on a UA segment in a mixed award with partner metals?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #514 on: May 09, 2014, 12:27:24 PM »
Is Plan B only working on tickets that contain UA metals only? Can I Plan B on a UA segment in a mixed award with partner metals?
I believe per Dan's DDMS post, only on UA metal.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #515 on: May 09, 2014, 12:31:32 PM »
I believe per Dan's DDMS post, only on UA metal.

So just to clarify, all segments have to be UA metal?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #516 on: May 09, 2014, 12:32:44 PM »
So just to clarify, all segments have to be UA metal?

That you want to do Plan B on. Yes
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #517 on: May 09, 2014, 12:37:51 PM »
Is Plan B only working on tickets that contain UA metals only? Can I Plan B on a UA segment in a mixed award with partner metals?
Yes. While Plan B only works on UA metal, you can have flights on other carriers booked on the same itinerary. We had flights on AC one way (no plan B) and UA and US on the way back. Since there were seats in F on US but not on UA, we were confirmed in F (actually it was O) on US and did Plan B for the UA part.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #518 on: May 09, 2014, 12:44:10 PM »
Yes. While Plan B only works on UA metal, you can have flights on other carriers booked on the same itinerary. We had flights on AC one way (no plan B) and UA and US on the way back. Since there were seats in F on US but not on UA, we were confirmed in F (actually it was O) on US and did Plan B for the UA part.

Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

Now do I have to set it up when I first ticket the award, or can I request the upgrade later? I tried to do it later but either the agents didn't know what I was talking about, or told me it wasn't possible when there were partner metal involved.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #519 on: May 09, 2014, 12:47:34 PM »
Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

Now do I have to set it up when I first ticket the award, or can I request the upgrade later? I tried to do it later but either the agents didn't know what I was talking about, or told me it wasn't possible when there were partner metal involved.
You can set it up later. You have to clarify with them that you only want it on UA metal. If there's F/J on the other carrier, you can book that when you set up Plan B. I'm not sure what will happen if there's no F/J on the other carrier.