How to book cheap United tickets

jammin_2

I have found an itinerary I want for a holiday the States, from Dublin. Cheapest tickets seem to be with United, at United.com.

Does anyone know how to save money? I mean, are there any discount vouchers or cashback schemes etc that I could make use of?

Quidco and TCB both don't appear to offer cashback for United.com.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

richardw

Have you got any miles on a star alliance airline frequent flyer member account?

jammin_2

Sadly not. I have some BA miles and some Flying Blue (AF / KLM) miles.

richardw

Perhaps call a travel agent and see if they have cheaper inclusive tour fares that just need one night in a hotel that you don't have to stay in.

Have a check with what is available through http://www.expedia.co.uk/Holidays, tick the box next to I only need a hotel for part of my trip and pick a saturday night for the dates. You would be getting expedia's T&C's in addition to United's though.

richardw

jammin wrote: »

Sadly not. I have some BA miles

Have you got some tesco vouchers to top up the miles?

Log-in to BA and see what their part cash part miles prices are like.

Alan_Bowen

United do not fly to Dublin at all, which means this is a Continental Airlines flight, check their website and see if the fare is lower, it might be but code share flight fares deny logic

jammin_2

Alan_Bowen wrote: »

United do not fly to Dublin at all, which means this is a Continental Airlines flight, check their website and see if the fare is lower, it might be but code share flight fares deny logic

Thanks Alan.

I tried that, but the Continental website is much more expensive than the United website - for the very same itinerary which, as you pointed out, is actually Continental flights and not United.

So anyway, I booked Delta instead. Much cheaper altogether and fly to / from Shannon rather than Dublin (not much difference for me) and best of all avoid the UK entirely (I HATE transiting in LHR).

Thanks everyone.