Gosh, I love United. I scored yet another bump on my IAD-DFW flight. There were a few very angry IDB’s. It’s time to fly!
Gosh, I love United. I scored yet another bump on my IAD-DFW flight. There were a few very angry IDB’s. It’s time to fly!
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June 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
ual757 said,
bump whore
June 7th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Gray said,
I’m flying all the wrong routes. All my kind requests to VDB myself are met with, “Get on the plane, ugly.”
June 7th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Sam said,
they don’t call him lucky for nothing
June 8th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Scholar in Training said,
Do you purposefully book flights that are normally oversold or are you just really lucky?
June 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am
lucky said,
@ ual757 — That’s my name!
@ Gray — I get the “ugly” part, just no the “get on the plane” part.
@ Sam — In that case I should be changing my handle to “Skilled.”
@ Scholar — Absolutely! I try to book flights which I know are frequently oversold.
June 12th, 2009 at 6:12 am
first said,
lucky,
Sorry to bother you, will be MR today 06/12 LAX/JFK UA28 and back the next day,the outbound looks all zero out in all classes except F9,P9,A9 do you think it’s a good chance they will ask for volunteer?
if I get the VDB do you think they could reroute me like this instead of taking the later redeyes:
06/12 LAX/SFO
06/13 SFO/JFK, 06/13 JFK/LAX (same day return)
Thanks for your help!
June 13th, 2009 at 11:19 am
lucky said,
@ first — Sorry for the late response. For some reason I forgot to respond to this earlier. Generally speaking F9 would mean that operational upgrades are more likely than VDB’s, although it’s definitely a possibility. They could definitely reroute you on LAX-SFO-JFK if you were in that situation.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:48 am
first said,
Thanks so much for the info,got the $200 bump and put on the red eye in F. So far I love doing the MR. I’ve book my upcoming MR and do you think GA would let me change this itinerary?
Btw I really like your site!don’t know how to thank you,here goes:
Currently book on: 06/20/09
United 0312
Depart: TPA 1:47 PM
Arrive: IAD 4:02 PM Non-stop
2h 15m
752
810 miles traveled Fare basis code:
HRUPMY
Booking class: A
First
810 Award miles
No Meal Service
United 0457
Depart: IAD 6:56 PM
Arrive: DEN 8:45 PM Non-stop
3h 49m
319
1,452 miles traveled Fare basis code:
HRUPMY
Booking class: A
First
1,452 Award miles
Dinner
United 0271
Depart: DEN 9:51 PM
Arrive: ONT 11:01 PM Non-stop
2h 10m
32S
819 miles traveled Fare basis code:
HRUPMY
Booking class: Y
Economy
819 Award miles
No Meal Service
New crazy itinerary have in mind:
6:00 AM TPA – 8:11 AM IAD
United 424
12:16 PM IAD – 1:35 PM JFK
Operated by UNITED EXPRESS/ SHUTTLE AMERICA
2:45 PM JFK – 6:24 PM SFO
premium service United 15
10:25 PM SFO – 11:46 PM ONT
Operated by UNITED EXPRESS/ SKYWEST AIRLINES
June 14th, 2009 at 6:42 am
lucky said,
@ first — Nice fare basis.
Unfortunately that would be very challenging on many levels:
1) You’d have to standby, and IAD-JFK is almost always packed.
2) The routing you want is one segment longer than what you have booked, so the agents would have to manually add “coupons,” which would get complicated.
3) You’re technically only be entitled to business since it’s a two cabin F fare, and chances are business would be full (first is usually where the space is).
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