United Airlines
Yes. It does suck.
Just kidding... that's not what I'm talking about. But instead, it's as good as I predicted. Here is exactly what I said:
Q: Will the routing rules (like stopover rules) change on Feb 1?
A: No. Apparently United doesn’t see the need to let people know about upcoming changes to routing rules, but they do let people know about upcoming award chart prices. Anyways, there’s no correlation between the two.
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This series has been featuring pre-devaluation prices, but I still wanted to get this one out before Feb 1 (the devaluation date).
So if you have some last minute booking in the works, could use use the same concepts later, or just find these tricks interesting... well, I'm glad I got it out. If it's too late for you to do something like this, I hope future content will continue to provide as much value.
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Q: Will either changes affect tickets I have already booked?
A: No, not at all.
Q: Can I book a ticket in January for later travel?
A: Of course. Book before Feb 1 for travel as far out as you can book and you get prices according to the current chart.
Q: What if I book under current prices and change the ticket later, will the price go up?
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Boy, here I am catching up to get out the last of this series before the big devaluation.
My guess is that this is a time of United miles burning. Yes? No? And one of the biggest changes after this award devaluation, (taking place Feb 1), is Southeast Asia. This is also one of the most important regions in the current (old) award chart for reasons we'll go over soon.
This post is mostly about Southeast Asia, North Asia and Japan as our point of interest. Whenever I say Asia in the rest of...
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