Booking UA Velocity Award when airport isn't listed on Velocity site

[CPMaverick]

Hi All-

I did try to search but no luck.

I'm interested in booking a UA award from EWR-TFS (Tenerife). There are saver awards on the UA website. But on the velocity site, the airport isn't an option to select.

Is it likely I can book this award over the phone?

Since I am OS I thought I'd check here before possibly waiting on hold with an agent (plus sometimes the agents are wrong).

Cheers

 

[Must...Fly!]

Yes that should be doable. You might have to HUCA a few times to find someone who knows what they're doing.

 

[CPMaverick]

Thanks for the response! Just about an hour ago I was able to do just that. Got two awards booked ATL-EWR-TFS for this summer ! Great use of points.

The agent asked why I didn't book online, and when I told him, he waived the phone booking fee too

 

[bcworld]

You can actually just tinker with the URL.

Search for a city pair it does like, like ATL - EWR. Then replace the destination with your desired airport code.



Et voila!

 

[CPMaverick]

Awesome advice! Thank you!

That crossed my mind actually, maybe I could force the website, but I didn't actually get to trying it.

Shame VA doesn't just let you type in the airport code... If it isn't found then it an just give an error! Sometimes they overcomplicate things.

 

[bcworld]

That's a great value redemption by the way!

 

[CPMaverick]

That's a great value redemption by the way!

Agreed! Couldn't believe it was available on short notice