Sentences with phrase «united award itinerary»

Not exact matches

Remember that award itineraries wholly within North America that include flights operated by United Airlines can't have a stopover.

While many airlines have made it more difficult to score a stopover on award tickets, there are still some options out there such as United's Excursionist perk that can include legal stopovers on some itineraries.

When you get an agent on the phone, explain that you are trying to book an itinerary that you believe is within United's award rules and that you could not book it online and received an error.

Though United's website allows an extremely seamless level of partner bookings compared to many other airline award booking websites, it often runs into trouble processing complex itineraries with stopovers.

If you haven't already, walk through your itinerary one leg at a time on the United award search tool to make sure there is space on the flights and cabins you need before calling to book your award.

Today, United restricted members» ability to book multi-city trips, only allowing flight combinations that United creates for the trip and blocking the ability to manually build award itineraries.

They sure used an awful lot of language in an attempt to put a positive spin on these changes, but the bottom line is that we are now dependent on United's award booking engine, which doesn't pull in all partner flights, excludes many routings, and has a difficult time with itineraries of three or more legs.

One major advantage of flying United Airlines is that it allows one - way awards, giving travelers more flexibility when planning their itinerary.

Virgin Atlantic collects just # 15 (domestic itineraries) or # 30 (international itineraries) to change or cancel award travel that originates in the United Kingdom.

Like United, it also does a great job of searching for almost all Star Alliance members, but it does a slightly better job of searching for awards with connections so you shouldn't need to search segment - by - segment unless your intended itinerary has more than three segments.

If fact, Singapore's award chart trumps United's own award chart on nearly every itinerary in North America, especially with no close - in booking fees, a low $ 30 SGD fee to cancel and an even lower $ 12 SGD fee to change a ticket (Singaporean dollars are each worth ~ 70 US cents).

Apparently, devaluing stopovers wasn't enough, and United has now decided that if you wish to actually pay the prices they publish on their award chart, you can only select from the flight options they display for you — no longer are you able to piece together your own itinerary using multi-city search without paying extra.

But for complicated itineraries or when it looks like Saver awards are hard to come by, here's how to piece together your United Award:

You'll also pay a $ 75 fee for ticket changes before 21 days of departure, so United award bookings are best made in advance when you're sure of your itinerary.

United had relatively friendly award routing rules that allowed one stopover and two open jaws on roundtrip award tickets.Those rules are gone now though and have been replaced by the «Excursionist Perk,» which is essentially a free segment on an international itinerary.

As with American Airline ticket awards, United awards are one - way, giving you the option of combining different award types and classes of service to create a round - trip travel itinerary that best suits your needs.

The total price for the above itinerary comes out to 160K miles, exactly what it should be for a round - trip business class saver award from the U.S. to South Asia per United's chart.

The partner award pricing also applies to Business / First Awards for itineraries that include travel on both United and at least one partner when at least one flight segment on a partner is in Business or First.

One of my favorite ways to get the best value from my United miles is to add a free or discounted one - way trip to every international award or itinerary between different regions.