The Offers
- United are offering an unpublished discount for award travel. The discounts are as follows:
- 20% discount on domestic US award bookings (via DansDeals)
- 25% discount off North Asia awards (via View From The Wing)
- 22% discount off South Asia awards (via View From The Wing)
The Fine Print
Asia Discount
- December 9rd till February 3rd are black out dates for the Asia discount
- Discount’s are only for economy
- Advance purchase is necessary (must purchase at least 14 days in advance)
- Must fly a United-operated non-stop between the US and China or Hong Kong for your transpacific segment
- Flights can be booked between August 11th and August 22nd for travel between August 29th and April 30th
- Round trip travel is required
- Discount is only for award saver levels (you can fly on leg at saver level and one at standard, but won’t receive the discount on standard)
Domestic Discount
- Discount’s are only for economy
- Black out dates: November: 22nd, 23rd, 26th, 27th. 28th
- Advance purchase is necessary (must purchase at least 14 days in advance)
- Round trip travel is required
- Discount is only for award saver levels (you can fly on leg at saver level and one at standard, but won’t receive the discount on standard)
Our Verdict
Some nice discounts if you can find saver level availability and the dates work for you. Surprised there is no landing page for the domestic discount, maybe they applied the discount prematurely.
I tried to test book a flight from chicago to shanghai in Mar -Apr during the promotion period but no discount, it still shows 70k miles + fee. Not sure what’s wrong. 🙁
Same here…
Anyone have good resources for learning how to book these things? I have tons of miles but am a complete newbie with award booking. Would love to take advantage of this to go to Japan/Hong Kong/Singapore
What about Central Asia – India for example? Do only North and South Asia qualify for the discount?
Only the regions listed have the discount.
Not sure if it is a coincidence, but I repriced an open-jaw I booked a few weeks ago. Now 16k instead of 20k. So I took that, and will cancel the original (no fee)
How do you cancel with no fee?
No fee for 1K.
Too bad these discounts don’t apply to Star Alliance flights
Interesting. I’m not sure how United divide their regions but I’m seeing 66k in Economy from KOA-TYO while it’s 68.5k in UnitedFirst one way for November 14. The undiscounted price I believe is 31k in economy KOA-TYO.
Now I’m looking at their site, I get it.