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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4360 on: February 12, 2018, 04:47:03 PM »
just to share an experience I went thru today maybe this can be helpful to others. sat night I needed to book a flight to Israel for my dad and when I searched I was able to find  a EWR-TLV non stop for 75K for tonight's 11pm flight but on Sunday my dad said there was no need to fly and that I should cancel. it was hard clicking on the cancel button as I know to find that availability is extremely rare but bh the reason for the cancellation was a good one. today however my dad called saying that he indeed needed to go to Israel tonight and he wanted to know if I can still book that flight? I checked on the website and availability was gone for that flight so I called and the rep said no ( as expected) then I asked for a supervisor and after waiting for half an hour on phone she was able to grant me the award ticket for the same amount of points. she sais she will make a "one time exception" for me- I was soo happy. I had to pay the booking fee but def worth it!
has this ever happen to anyone?
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4361 on: February 12, 2018, 04:54:27 PM »
just to share an experience I went thru today maybe this can be helpful to others. sat night I needed to book a flight to Israel for my dad and when I searched I was able to find  a EWR-TLV non stop for 75K for tonight's 11pm flight but on Sunday my dad said there was no need to fly and that I should cancel. it was hard clicking on the cancel button as I know to find that availability is extremely rare but bh the reason for the cancellation was a good one. today however my dad called saying that he indeed needed to go to Israel tonight and he wanted to know if I can still book that flight? I checked on the website and availability was gone for that flight so I called and the rep said no ( as expected) then I asked for a supervisor and after waiting for half an hour on phone she was able to grant me the award ticket for the same amount of points. she sais she will make a "one time exception" for me- I was soo happy. I had to pay the booking fee but def worth it!
has this ever happen to anyone?
Did she see the ticket that you canceled or you just told her what happened?

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4362 on: February 12, 2018, 06:08:38 PM »
just to share an experience I went thru today maybe this can be helpful to others. sat night I needed to book a flight to Israel for my dad and when I searched I was able to find  a EWR-TLV non stop for 75K for tonight's 11pm flight but on Sunday my dad said there was no need to fly and that I should cancel. it was hard clicking on the cancel button as I know to find that availability is extremely rare but bh the reason for the cancellation was a good one. today however my dad called saying that he indeed needed to go to Israel tonight and he wanted to know if I can still book that flight? I checked on the website and availability was gone for that flight so I called and the rep said no ( as expected) then I asked for a supervisor and after waiting for half an hour on phone she was able to grant me the award ticket for the same amount of points. she sais she will make a "one time exception" for me- I was soo happy. I had to pay the booking fee but def worth it!
has this ever happen to anyone?
75k?? Is that the new pricing?
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4363 on: February 12, 2018, 08:11:47 PM »
75k?? Is that the new pricing?
For J? No.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4364 on: February 12, 2018, 10:14:35 PM »
For J? No.
Actually it is. Used to be 70k. (Moshe26 also didn't write J anywhere).
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4365 on: February 13, 2018, 09:51:24 AM »
For J? No.

Actually it is. Used to be 70k. (Moshe26 also didn't write J anywhere).

it was 75K for J.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4366 on: February 13, 2018, 05:28:35 PM »
75k?? Is that the new pricing?
Yes. As of the latest deval.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4367 on: February 15, 2018, 11:33:04 AM »
Can I transfer Chase UR from my account to my brother's United account? He's not an authorized user or household member. Tried searching but the results didn't match the query.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4368 on: February 15, 2018, 11:43:41 AM »
Can I transfer Chase UR from my account to my brother's United account? He's not an authorized user or household member. Tried searching but the results didn't match the query.
No but you could transfer from your UR to his UR

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4369 on: February 15, 2018, 04:35:50 PM »
No but you could transfer from your UR to his UR

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4370 on: February 16, 2018, 11:04:05 AM »
Can I transfer Chase UR from my account to my brother's United account? He's not an authorized user or household member. Tried searching but the results didn't match the query.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4371 on: February 20, 2018, 05:33:08 PM »
Booked a cheap paid flight to TLV in Y, if award space opens up in J, can I book that, fly J outbound and Y return? Will they cancel my tickets?

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4372 on: February 20, 2018, 05:43:28 PM »
Yes, yes

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4373 on: February 20, 2018, 05:44:32 PM »
Yes, yes

if they cancel my return then it wont work, is there any way around that?

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4374 on: February 20, 2018, 05:46:06 PM »
if they cancel my return then it wont work, is there any way around that?
All I can suggest is, if award space opens, it means probably also upgrade space is open, upgrade the outbound fareclass to W or higher if you're not already there and buy a GPU (they're $400 on Ebay)

Will probably be cheaper overall then booking a new ticket with points.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4375 on: February 20, 2018, 05:55:12 PM »
I hear, is there a tutorial somewhere on upgrading a fare class you already purchased?

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4376 on: February 20, 2018, 08:51:52 PM »
I hear, is there a tutorial somewhere on upgrading a fare class you already purchased?
You just got it...
All I can suggest is, if award space opens, it means probably also upgrade space is open, upgrade the outbound fareclass to W or higher if you're not already there and buy a GPU (they're $400 on Ebay)

Will probably be cheaper overall then booking a new ticket with points.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4377 on: February 21, 2018, 08:55:02 AM »
booked Ewr-Tlv (via Zrh) in J on UA award. Ewr-Zrh is in J, while Zrh-Tlv remained Y. how do I get them to upgrade the second leg, if it opens up? the ticket is already booked...
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Re: United award flights
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #4379 on: February 21, 2018, 10:10:22 AM »
booked Ewr-Tlv (via Zrh) in J on UA award. Ewr-Zrh is in J, while Zrh-Tlv remained Y. how do I get them to upgrade the second leg, if it opens up? the ticket is already booked...
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