Buying UA miles - can't use more than 50% for ticketing??? Help!

[calgarychris]

You can search these directly on the UA site - selecting award travel options. Having a quick look, the connections aren't really that convenient - 40 hours MEL-ROR. It routes you MEL-PVG-GUM-ROR - but there's a long layover in GUM.

UA doesn't show SQ availability, so you could use the UA tool to search SIN-ROR for example. or MNL-ROR (assuming you have found availability to get to SIN or MNL via another source which shows SQ flights).

Paid fares for the side-trips (GUM-ROR or ROR-TKK) are really quite expensive - like USD480. And again a long stopover in GUM on some days because the lfights misconnect.

So, if I understand correctly, I can look this up in UA as two one ways:

MEL-TKK

then ROR-MEL

and then I would instruct UA over the phone to create the itinerary with an open jaw? The above doesn't work unfortunately since there's only economy to TKK on Jan 14th, but as long as I understand the principle. The weird thing I find is that MEL-ROR on Jan 14th has J availability until MNL but MEL-TKK doesn't even though it's goes via MNL.

In your comment above "a round-trip, open jaw (into TKK and out of ROR) - or - a round-trip with stopover at GUM" how would routing as a round trip with stopover at GUM work?

Thanks for your patience

 

[MEL_Traveller]

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In your comment above "a round-trip, open jaw (into TKK and out of ROR) - or - a round-trip with stopover at GUM" how would routing as a round trip with stopover at GUM work?

Thanks for your patience

This was outlined earlier.

You would fly Australia-via where ever -GUM-TKK.

On the way back, you fly TKK-GUM, where you stopover. From there you buy your own ticket GUM-ROR return, then pick up the rest of your original ticket back to Australia.

roundtrip awards on United, provided they are purchased on the same ticket (not two one ways) allow a stopover. you take that stopover in GUM (you could do that either outbound or return, but not both) and buy a separate ticket to ROR.

alternatively, same principle, buy a roundtrip to ROR, stopover in GUM, and buy a separate ticket to TKK return.