Amazing Deal Alert: United First Class Asia Awards for Four Miles

Most US cities. I successfully booked HKG- JFK and LAX but I’m sure you can do others

date range?

Except that it deducted the FULL amount of miles from my account, not 4. Lets hope they honor and return.

I was able to book 2 rt sfo-hkg for 8 miles and 72 dollars. My question is what is the history with these types of mistakes? Do they usually respect the tickets?

Thanks for the tip

this offer is all over other blogs, so the glitch might not last long. might as well book a first class round trip from hong kong for 4 miles plus $115 in fees. I get this message when I log into my UA account: “This reservation was ticketed and confirmed on Sun., Jul. 15, 2012 at 12:36 p.m. Central Time.”

Don’t wait for details- start playing with dates that work for you and book. This won’t last long

same here with Chrome/iPad, go to internet explorer and it will work

It’s currently working from the US to HKG and beyond. As long as you connect in HKG you can go anywhere, such as Vietnam or Australia.

This works in any class of service. And it works for United standard awards (which give you access to most seats on the plane, if you are a United elite or United credit card holder you have last seat availability).

it works with partner airlines if there is award seat availability.

So I booked US-Hong Kong for Labor Day and for Christmas. I didn’t bother with beyond.

If you have plenty of miles in your account, it will deduct the ‘normal’ mileage cost and send you a receipt showing only 4 miles per person.

If you do not have the normal mileage cost as a balance in your account it will send you a receipt showing 4 miles per person and won’t deduct any miles.

I do not expect this to be honored. Some folks think that new DOT rules requiring airlines to honor tickets that they’ve sold, and not to raise price after ticketing, will mean United HAS to honor this. I am not so sure that the DOT rules apply to award tickets (that increasing the points required for a free promotional award counts as raising the price under this rule).

I just did the same thing. routed through IAD and NAR. I don’t have the fill amount of miles so they can’t take them.

Just landed a Chicago to Hong Kong in Oct for 4 miles and $38.

I have a Mac. Trying to do it on Safari, but now it’s not showing the same flight availability . . .

You should get an email about 20 minutes later that says ticketed and confirmed with a ticket #.

I am seeing now through Dec. possibly longer haven’t looked that far yet. Just play with the dates though!

Just booked a ticket to HKG for NYE’s. Now will wait and see if UA will honor this…couldn’t hurt to try!

I was able to book one ticket for EWR–>HKG, but they found the glitch and it’s not going through anymore. Great catch!

My receipt says 8 miles but it took 120K which is the most had had for one ticket. I can’t see how I am going to argue they give me back the 119,992 miles. I can cancel within 24 hour right?

Is it dead? I was screwing around with internet browsers and now nothing is showing….

I think it’s dead.

is the website down?

Mine shows correct mileage but the purchase went through but I don’t have the actual mileages. Will they allow me to cancel?

I have never hated my iPad more than I do today,,,had it in my cart, can’t book.

Ditto on my iMac and Chrome. Couldn’t download IE and get it to work.

booked one ticket, and tried to book another for another trip. looks like it is dead. sigh. now to wait to see what they say about if this will be honoured or not.

Well, it was nice to get excited for a few seconds as I saw the “total miles deducted – 8 miles” for 2 tickets. But it wont let me book.

I’ve been staring at the “Please Wait…” thingy for about an hour now…it’s hypnotizing…I can taste the Pad Tai chicken on my lips…can’t.stop.staring.

Just got the confirmation email from United, 3 tickets First Class ORD to HKG Jan 4-13. Total 12 miles and $191. Utterly insanely exciting…do UAL’s ticket contracts allow them to take this back from me now that they’ve sent me the confirmation email?

Meanwhile, a friend is trying to do the same thing and NOT getting through at all, no matter what date/airport configurations he tries…it may be that UAL just caught on to this glitch and closed it down.

I received a ticket # and it says confirmed… Let me explain a bit more… I had already booked seats to Hong Kong… for rough Dates Mid September to Mid Nov… I just booked another award seat ( the 8 mile one) for now mid september to Late november… wondering when I can securely cancel my first reservation!

I received a confirmation as well for First Class EWR>PEK; HKG>JFK for over Thanksgiving. I wonder when we will find out if this will be retracted.

I would wait at least this week and see how this deal plays out.

how lucky you have been; I was NOT able to book online manytimes on 12.5 K rewards on Chengdu(CTU) JZH ( Jiuzaighou) ; the simple excuse from Represeatives is : Air China did NOT give us the update..
i.e. this could be the case what you can book is NOT what you can get.

Agreed- seems completely dead

I only had 755 miles in my acc and i now have 751 so only 4 miles were deducted. o got an e-ticket as usual, the award code is : 4/XF72 seems the party is over folks, i can’t get the outbound, guess i’ll be using avios to fly out there, still considering i got a HKG-JFK for only 4 miles, its still damn good bang for your buck. Lets not loose focus, i suggest we all give TPG a big round of applause for bringing this to our attention today !!!! well done TPG. Dinner on me when you’re back in NYC.

The big question is whether they will honor it or not. If they don’t, it could easily turn into a PR nightmare. Anyone have an idea of what precedence on this has been?

I don’t know but it seems dishonest to try and take advantage of an obvious computer error. There is a cost to everyone and this is just cheating in buying unless your an absolute moron who doesn’t understand that. What a bunch of vultures.

This is a direct quote from the wal street journal. A couple of years old but Smisek was CEO of Conitnental then.

UAL Corp.’s United Airlines, Continental Airlines Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., LUV +1.40% JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU +1.59% and Singapore Airlines C6L.SG +0.28% all say their policy is to not cancel tickets even when a mistake is discovered, no matter how large the error.

Nah, I worked for the airlines and realize there is a cost to the employees and shareholders. But hey if you think it is okay, you don’t have to answer to me only to God…it is called cheating in buying and selling and promoting this offer to others makes it that much worse. Getting a deal fair and square is one thing but this isn’t. It is just taking advantage of an error. If you all feel great about flying first class while the people that wait on you pay for it then have a great time on your trips.

There is also that little issue about losing your miles and status for abuse of the program so you are all forewarned.

How is this cheating or abusing the program? They made the mistakes and we at least most of us in America take responsibility for our mistakes. I have made mistakes buying tickets online and called within 5 minutes to change dates because of my error and they force a change fee etc because that is their policy. It works both ways. They have control of the programming and technology and nobody broke in or hacked their systems. They made mistakes and it happens. They should honor it as the wsj article says they have said in the past.

Who’s God?

Neither NRT nor HND were part of the deal it only worked for PEK, PDG, and HKG (Oxford Comma FTW!)

this is obviously a software glitch and 100% of people who got in on this deal know this. If it were pricing say 20k miles for a trip for economy or something at least CREDIBLE I think UA should honor, but 4 miles is ridiculous and anyone who will try to fight this when cancelled is really unreasonable. No wonder the airlines are all going bankrupt!

Not going to be honored according the the UA person on FlyerTalk.

I really hope that United is able to cancel this. As an employee, I don’t appreciate customers knowingly taking advantage of a most obvious glitch. If you walked into a jewerly store and purchased a 5 carat diamond ring but the sales slip ony rang up $5 instead of $50,000, and you walked out the door without lookingback, you’re stealing. Period.

is it possible to use my amex point or i should have some milage card?