« Reply #684 on: November 26, 2013, 01:06:58 PM »
???there seems to be some misunderstanding. The quote you sent me from Dan does not even mention the word SAVER and the article you sent me actually discusses Standard awards(I just reread article)
Let me try and explain again. The colors may indicate saver award space but they wont be nonstop flights even if you check off nonstop flights because there might not be any flights of this nature available. Instead United will display nonstop STANDARD award flights and connecting SAVER award flights. What I was trying to do was have United display only nonstop saver awards which wont happen unless you find the exact date that has both a nonstop and saver award flight and then search from that date
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…you can ask united.com to return only direct results. I use this option all the time. Whether I want a direct flight for convenience, or I am searching segment-by-segment for a dream business class product, it is very useful.
But it has a major flaw. If you search a direct flight, and the direct flight that day doesn’t have award space, then the calendar won’t show you what days the direct flight does have award space.
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This is where you trick united.com into displaying the calendar with only direct flights on it. To do that, you need to find a day that does have direct flight award space.
The bottom of the page lets you re-search. I search for a date that is likely to have award space. I know that winter is off peak to Europe, so Lufthansa releases more seats, so I searched a date in February, again checking the Nonstop box.
I picked a winner. There is award space that day on the direct flight. Of course, we want to fly in June not February, but now the calendar is showing space only on the direct flight and we can easily move the calendar’s dates.
June doesn’t have any award space. This trick can’t solve that, but it does let us know that without having to search every day in June individually. And we can see that there is space on the direct flight the last week of May in business class (blue) and economy the week before (yellow).
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Recap:
It’s a bummer we have to trick united.com into showing direct-flight availability only on its calendar in some case, but that is the current state of things. When you run into the problem, search for direct-flight availability on a likely date in the off peak season.
When you find one date with availability in any cabin, you can get the calendar to display direct-only availability by searching the date that has availability with the Nonstop Only box checked. Once you have the calendar displaying the flight you want, you can toggle to find the months you want.
Despite this going back and forth for a dozen or so posts, the answer to your question, as I maintained all along and have now illustrated in detail, was in my very first response.
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