Where's all the UA J (Polaris) TPAC availability gone?

[kangarooflyer88]

UA offers to sell miles at about 1.8c American each, pretty regularly on their 100% bonus buy promos, and one can buy a few 100,000 a year. IIRC one such promo is running now.

The problem is that is a lot of money compared to other programs. You can often Buy Air Canada Aeroplane points for about 1.4 cents USD during a bonus promotion. What's more Aeroplan has a number of interesting partners and actually has a fixed award chart for most of their partners. Even Qantas and Virgin with their issues (i.e. carrier surcharge and limited availability at times) can be attractive as you can buy points for about a 1 cent USD per point during sales on Qantas wine or campaigns like the Choice double point transfer promotion that runs roughly once a year.

-RooFlyer88

 

[bcworld]

Seeing as the thread got bumped.

Today's UA99 MEL-LAX





UA61 MEL - SFO



Many, many empty seats in economy on both.

 

[ElizaB]

I want to fly UA99 (or UA61) October 30th, so sad that these arent avaliable to us. Looks like they dont sell all the seats anyway so might as well offer up even 2 or 4 of those seats as rewards seats.