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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 507434 times)

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #940 on: November 24, 2014, 07:31:17 PM »
in TLV?  i spoke with a united rep from the call back number and she said that there are many ahead of me.  when i tried to explain i have priority-well.......it was like talking to a a wall.
The call back rep can't give you PR-1 status. You have to get it at the airport.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #941 on: November 25, 2014, 06:15:38 PM »
did anyone have any luck getting PR-1 status in TLV?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #942 on: November 28, 2014, 07:33:12 AM »
just landed.  was # 13 and 14 in upgrade list.  8 people got upgraded. not my wife and I:(
gal blum was running the flight and shut me down when i told him we should have priority. 
went to supervisor told him that we paid higher point rate and that hadasah in TLV office said that our ticket was noted be priority to business class seats.  he was just about convinced-he called Gal and was shut down. 
gal was adamant that we did not have priority-but we are eligible to get our points back.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #943 on: November 28, 2014, 07:54:40 AM »
just landed.  was # 13 and 14 in upgrade list.  8 people got upgraded. not my wife and I:(
gal blum was running the flight and shut me down when i told him we should have priority. 
went to supervisor told him that we paid higher point rate and that hadasah in TLV office said that our ticket was noted be priority to business class seats.  he was just about convinced-he called Gal and was shut down. 
gal was adamant that we did not have priority-but we are eligible to get our points back.
did you mention "gg onestandby" lines 85-89?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #944 on: November 29, 2014, 05:24:42 PM »
Anyone ever do a plan b on ZRH-IAD?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #945 on: November 29, 2014, 06:32:25 PM »
Anyone ever do a plan b on ZRH-IAD?
It's an easy auto-upgrade.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #946 on: December 02, 2014, 09:18:11 AM »
has anyone ever gotten 4 seats upgraded via plan B?  i have a reservation for july

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #947 on: December 09, 2014, 06:30:16 PM »
What's the likelihood of using plan B and ending up in Business on United NYC to Hawaii in August. Anyone have experience if they normally fill up?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #948 on: December 09, 2014, 06:45:41 PM »
What's the likelihood of using plan B and ending up in Business on United NYC to Hawaii in August. Anyone have experience if they normally fill up?

I did with two people each way without a problem. The upgrade went through in advance.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #949 on: December 09, 2014, 11:51:21 PM »
So I was at EWR bwfore and found a friendly supervisor and started schmoozing with him about airline stuff... I asked him if he ever heard about United plan B and he looked at me with two eyes ... so i explained him everything and told him about getting PR-1 status, so he tells me "the only person who gets PR-1 status is a business class pax who has missed his previous flight. So I told him to check up gg standby line 85-89 and he looked at at it and he tells me that 1) it starts from line 83 and 2) it does not say anything about this kind of award, it just says how to put someone in top off the list. Then he had to go so I couldn't ask him to read through that area to see if it says something about this award. So @Dan if you know someone in UA please check again what the correct lines are. Maybe they recently changed around the lines...
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #950 on: December 09, 2014, 11:54:41 PM »
Currently on line 81.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #951 on: December 10, 2014, 12:04:12 AM »
Currently on line 81.

Maybe please update DDMS
I actually booked one of these today for the very first time. I then proceeded to print out the post from DD that discusses this to make chazarah and to be prepared in the airport.
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #952 on: December 10, 2014, 12:06:30 AM »
Maybe please update DDMS
I actually booked one of these today for the very first time. I then proceedes to print out the post from DD that discusses this to make chazarah and to be prepared in the airport.
+1, or the wiki, or both.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #953 on: December 10, 2014, 12:18:42 AM »
Currently on line 81.
Duh! He felt so cool that he was right that only business class pax who missed the flight get PR-1 status. Maybe update the main site.

Can you copy what exactly it says on line 81?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #954 on: December 10, 2014, 12:20:29 AM »
Just update the post without updating the website, making it come to the front and we all get tweets...
Can that be done ?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #955 on: December 10, 2014, 12:21:54 AM »
The DDMS post has been updated since before I wrote here that it has moved to 81.

I don't know exactly what it says, but DDF founder Eli reported the move to 81 when attempting a plan B TLV.

Took him several employees until they agreed to make him #1 on the upgrade list, though nobody knew how to actually add PR-1 there so on UA.com he was still showing 14...  Didn't matter anyway, J was totally full, not a single upgrade on his flight.

So he redeposited and flew LH :D
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #956 on: December 10, 2014, 12:31:35 AM »
Yup,
Gotta look in the comments.
Comment 122 from Eli.
 Though would be nice to update the post itself as we use it as refrence.
Thanks anyway

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #957 on: December 10, 2014, 12:35:11 AM »
Chabibi, the post has been updated for the past hour already. Don't make me CTLMS you!
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #958 on: December 10, 2014, 12:43:22 AM »
What's the exact wording of line 81? Does it say anything specificly about getting pr-1 even with an award ticket?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #959 on: December 10, 2014, 12:44:00 AM »
CTLMS?
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