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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #760 on: May 01, 2023, 11:04:55 PM »
united seems to have raised save award levels from their unofficial chart

example nyc - zrh on july 12, united metal saver 40k, swiss flight 43.9.  lot of other examples to and from europe in summer. 

i havent checked other routes

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #761 on: May 01, 2023, 11:36:43 PM »
united seems to have raised save award levels from their unofficial chart

example nyc - zrh on july 12, united metal saver 40k, swiss flight 43.9.  lot of other examples to and from europe in summer. 

i havent checked other routes

Started sometime today.

I hate Delta.

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #762 on: May 02, 2023, 12:34:21 AM »
united seems to have raised save award levels from their unofficial chart

example nyc - zrh on july 12, united metal saver 40k, swiss flight 43.9.  lot of other examples to and from europe in summer. 

i havent checked other routes
Same. Til about 4PM everything was available for 33k-36k, and now it's 43k-47k.

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #763 on: May 02, 2023, 12:38:08 AM »
Same. Til about 4PM everything was available for 33k-36k, and now it's 43k-47k.
Hit Twitter, people.

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #764 on: May 02, 2023, 10:26:16 PM »
@Dan Now that you're back, are you planning on covering this? I didn't see anyone else mention it yet.

It's a huge increase, and especially since United is not releasing any award space to partners (barely any "expanded" space either) this really hurts as you're forced to spend up to 50% more on *saver* space overnight.

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #765 on: May 11, 2023, 02:15:43 AM »
United casually honors lower award rate from 2 days ago.
Which call center?

I was just on with them. I had 10.5k booked on a Monday, when Sunday was 19.5k. There was a small window of availability yesterday where Sunday was 10.5k as well tried switching online and I kept getting an error. By the time I was talking to Someone it was back at 19.5k. As an aside both my original Monday ticket that I paid 10.5k for and the Sunday are pricing at 19.5k. What are my chance of getting this honored. US call center said I needed more miles nothing doing…

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #766 on: May 11, 2023, 11:12:51 AM »
To clarify my question. I would be switching XN space to XN space both on United metal, and both Currently pricing at exactly the same amount. However at time of purchase it was 10.5k, now both the leg I have and the one I want are 19.5k both XN, what are my chances of getting an even swap done here. It is also x6 tickets, so it adds up. Any one with some insight will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #767 on: May 11, 2023, 07:30:23 PM »
Is there any risk flying turkish now in this matzav

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #768 on: May 12, 2023, 03:17:18 PM »
Is there away to search award travel 30 day calendar to sort by non stop?  When I uncheck the stops it does nothing to the calendar and when I click that day sure enough it shows the non stop as a lot more miles...
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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #769 on: May 12, 2023, 03:41:02 PM »
Is there away to search award travel 30 day calendar to sort by non stop?  When I uncheck the stops it does nothing to the calendar and when I click that day sure enough it shows the non stop as a lot more miles...
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Use the legacy award search.

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/flight-search/book-a-flight
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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #770 on: May 12, 2023, 03:55:56 PM »
Use the legacy award search.

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/flight-search/book-a-flight
Still doesn't show calendar (After search loads I choose Advanced search, and then the calendar is back to same that doesnt sort by stops




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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #771 on: May 12, 2023, 04:01:07 PM »
Still doesn't show calendar (After search loads I choose Advanced search, and then the calendar is back to same that doesnt sort by stops




Find a date that has availability in coach and put that date in. After it pulls up availability for that date you can display the 30 day calendar and filter by nonstop.
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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #772 on: May 14, 2023, 08:36:26 PM »
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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #773 on: May 17, 2023, 01:17:19 PM »
@Dan Now that you're back, are you planning on covering this? I didn't see anyone else mention it yet.

It's a huge increase, and especially since United is not releasing any award space to partners (barely any "expanded" space either) this really hurts as you're forced to spend up to 50% more on *saver* space overnight.
Now OMAAT covered it.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-mileageplus-massively-devalues-miles/

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #774 on: May 17, 2023, 01:23:51 PM »
So how much is "true" business saver for partners or United TLV-NYC now?

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #775 on: May 17, 2023, 01:39:59 PM »
Now OMAAT covered it.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-mileageplus-massively-devalues-miles/
For the last 2 weeks I have been checking numerous domestic or international tickets and the rates are horrendous even for economy domestic regardless of dates

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #776 on: May 17, 2023, 02:50:59 PM »
For the last 2 weeks I have been checking numerous domestic or international tickets and the rates are horrendous even for economy domestic regardless of dates
They went Delta all the way. Happy I redeemed almost all miles a few days before. I do think we should try to put more pressure on them to revert these changes.

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #778 on: May 17, 2023, 03:18:15 PM »
https://viewfromthewing.com/united-devalues-mileageplus-increases-points-prices-of-many-awards-by-up-to-46/

Standard economy and business up from 30k to 40k and 60k to 80k (for europe)

As well as partner awards up to 100k in some cases

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Re: United Mileage Plus
« Reply #779 on: May 17, 2023, 03:34:01 PM »
@Dan Now that you're back, are you planning on covering this? I didn't see anyone else mention it yet.

It's a huge increase, and especially since United is not releasing any award space to partners (barely any "expanded" space either) this really hurts as you're forced to spend up to 50% more on *saver* space overnight.
Dan, I think you're being too kind to United here. Definitely wouldn't title the post, "devalues some awards to Europe".