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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1280 on: May 12, 2014, 11:32:21 AM »
How does this make sense?

80 K in BIZ and in FIRST



I believe bc by Biz it is giving you the award partner price since all classes are the same as Air Japan Business. But by first, its giving you the United award price because the United flights are in first and the Air Japan is in business so since it is "lower class" than the united flights it gives you the united award charge.

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PS. If you call up, you can try to get them to change the business to unites award chart price. I had it done before on TLV-ORD where it said 80k (partner price) but I got them to give it to me for 70k (united price). ORD-TLV (LH J) TLV-ORD (UA J). If I would have chosen TLV-FRA in LH Y and FRA-ORD in UA J it would price out as 70k. Same as your example above.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1281 on: May 13, 2014, 08:01:19 PM »
How can I tell how many savior award seats there are left on a particular flight ?

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1282 on: May 13, 2014, 08:03:19 PM »
How can I tell how many savior award seats there are left on a particular flight ?
Select 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 passengers and see..... If lets say when you search for 4 pax it is showing saver awards and when you're searching for 5 pax nothing is coming up, you have your answer.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1283 on: May 13, 2014, 08:04:11 PM »
How can I tell how many savior award seats there are left on a particular flight ?

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1284 on: May 13, 2014, 08:10:12 PM »
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1285 on: May 13, 2014, 08:10:53 PM »
Select 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 passengers and see..... If lets say when you search for 4 pax it is showing saver awards and when you're searching for 5 pax nothing is coming up, you have your answer.

This may work, but is much more time consuming then just using expert mode, IMHO.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1287 on: May 13, 2014, 08:17:16 PM »
This may work, but is much more time consuming then just using expert mode, IMHO.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1288 on: May 13, 2014, 08:38:40 PM »
Dan explains in a more simple way on the main site in the blog of united card benefits.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1289 on: May 15, 2014, 10:16:38 PM »
Is it my imagination, or is there literally not one single award seat (economy or biz) available on UA direct EWR-TLV for the ENTIRE NEXT YEAR at Saver level?! >:(

It's one thing for them to cheap out, and have only a few scattered dates available... but I'm seeing literally nothing. It's like X and I class no longer exist. Am I missing something?
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1290 on: May 15, 2014, 10:38:43 PM »
Miles is a Jewish thing, TLV is a Jewish thing. When two Jewish things clash - it's messy.

Why do you assume they don't release seats?? They do release but all grabbed quickly by the hunters.
there's NO WAY they release the same amount of savior award seats to tlv as to most other destinations.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1291 on: May 18, 2014, 12:40:17 AM »
i have been looking at different flights from nyc to europe for the summer (multiple cities), they all have different amount of taxes per flight,
i was checking today and a lot of them priced out btw $2.50 - $6.70 in taxes (they were usually in the $25 - 50 range)

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1292 on: May 18, 2014, 12:43:50 AM »
i have been looking at different flights from nyc to europe for the summer (multiple cities), they all have different amount of taxes per flight,
i was checking today and a lot of them priced out btw $2.50 - $6.70 in taxes (they were usually in the $25 - 50 range)
NYC to any destination will only be 2.50, if it includes a stopover in Europe then you'll pay more $25/50 European taxes.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1293 on: May 18, 2014, 12:52:12 AM »
on the return even a direct flight to ny has high taxes

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1294 on: May 18, 2014, 12:56:09 AM »

on the return even a direct flight to ny has high taxes

Yup. Bc some airports charge a departure tax
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1295 on: May 19, 2014, 09:01:29 AM »
Anyone know why these are pricing differently? Both overwater segments are UA metal, they should both be 70k.
(The mixed cabin is FRA-TLV in Y so that shouldn't matter in the pricing.)

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1296 on: May 19, 2014, 10:32:02 AM »
Anyone know why these are pricing differently? Both overwater segments are UA metal, they should both be 70k.
(The mixed cabin is FRA-TLV in Y so that shouldn't matter in the pricing.)


Yes I do. It is similar to what i wrote about earlier in a different scenario.

I believe bc by Biz it is giving you the award partner price since all classes are the same as Air Japan Business. But by first, its giving you the United award price because the United flights are in first and the Air Japan is in business so since it is "lower class" than the united flights it gives you the united award charge.

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PS. If you call up, you can try to get them to change the business to unites award chart price. I had it done before on TLV-ORD where it said 80k (partner price) but I got them to give it to me for 70k (united price). ORD-TLV (LH J) TLV-ORD (UA J). If I would have chosen TLV-FRA in LH Y and FRA-ORD in UA J it would price out as 70k. Same as your example above.

But in this case, bc for 70k the FRA-TLV is in Y - one class lower then the united flight so it's giving you the united award chart price. But for 80k since LH FRA-TLV is in J its giving you the award partner price because its in the same category.

IF you call, maybe play HUCA you would be able to convince someone to give both to you for 70k.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1297 on: May 19, 2014, 01:31:08 PM »
trying to book GRU-MEM via ORD. if GRU-ORD is available in F for 70k, but ORD-MEM is only available as standard coach award (25K), is there anyway to combing those two onto one reservation for less than 95K? United callback claims not, so i figured id check here before calling again.

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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1298 on: May 19, 2014, 01:36:34 PM »
Anyone know why these are pricing differently? Both overwater segments are UA metal, they should both be 70k.
(The mixed cabin is FRA-TLV in Y so that shouldn't matter in the pricing.)

Of course the FRA-TLV is what matters. If it's a class below the UA flight then it stays at the UA rate, if it's in the higher class then it's a partner award.
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Re: United award flights
« Reply #1299 on: May 19, 2014, 01:42:12 PM »
trying to book GRU-MEM via ORD. if GRU-ORD is available in F for 70k, but ORD-MEM is only available as standard coach award (25K), is there anyway to combing those two onto one reservation for less than 95K? United callback claims not, so i figured id check here before calling again.
Of course not. Come on Jack. You should know better
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