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As with the DL partnership and when VA flew its own metal to the US, you need to continue looking on a regular basis. IMHO you'd be better off booking the Y reward flight now, and keep your eyes peeled for J award to come up. Unfortunately there's little rhyme or reason for when it gets released at the moment.has anyone had a positive experience trying to book reward J on UA from Aus? i've been peering through the schedules quite a bit recently from MEL-LAX and there seems to be plenty of economy reward tickets but not a single business reward.
have just looked at the UA site and there seems to be heaps of options with JN (which are apparently only for UA MileagePlus members?)
need to book 2x flights for a wedding in late august next year and starting to think that flying via SIN on SQ is going to be the better (only?) way to go, seem to be reasonable availability that way, though would obviously like to spend 8 less hours on a plane if i can wrangle it
This has been my experience too.
has anyone had a positive experience trying to book reward J on UA from Aus? i've been peering through the schedules quite a bit recently from MEL-LAX and there seems to be plenty of economy reward tickets but not a single business reward.
have just looked at the UA site and there seems to be heaps of options with JN (which are apparently only for UA MileagePlus members?)
need to book 2x flights for a wedding in late august next year and starting to think that flying via SIN on SQ is going to be the better (only?) way to go, seem to be reasonable availability that way, though would obviously like to spend 8 less hours on a plane if i can wrangle it
If they’re all on the same ticket, then yes.
Were you logged in when you booked? If not, that might be it as the system hasn’t linked the booking to your account. I’ve had this happen before and that appeared to be the culprit.
It has always been the case that only bookings booked via Virgin appear in their app. So if you've booked your UA flights any other way (either through UA direct or other *A partner) then don't expect them to appear.
All status benefits are the same. The only difference is plats get a 100% points bonus whilst gold only gets 75%.
I'm not not holding some ExpertFlyer alerts for these flights (and SYD-SFO, SYD-LAX, BNE-SFO) for the days I'm considering being in the US in March. ;-)
You won't lose the link at all, and you won't need to sign up to United to use the app either.
Adding the reservation manually to UA's app won't automatically link it to your UA account.
I can't speak to UA/VA specifically but had a similar issue on an Asiana-issued reward ticket for a flight on ANA a few months ago. ANA cancelled the flight on that day of the week, and initially Asiana offered only to refund as there was no reward availability for months. I then followed up with ANA who offered me the option to change the date, and after holding firm that Asiana wouldn't touch the ticket, ANA made the change in the reservation on their end by I assume tentatively reserving me on the new flight, and then told me to contact Asiana to re-issue.
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