{"id":19979,"date":"2011-03-10T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/?p=19979"},"modified":"2011-03-10T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:00:04","slug":"another-benefit-of-the-ua-co-mileage-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askmrcreditcard.com\/news\/another-benefit-of-the-ua-co-mileage-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Benefit Of The UA CO Mileage Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently wrote about how Continental And United Miles Can Now Be Transferred Back And Forth<\/a>.\u00a0 There are all sorts of advantages to this, but I neglected to mention one of the biggest ones.<\/p>\n

Starnet Blocking Can Be Considered Extinct….For The Moment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your may remember that I have an intense dislike of United for all sorts of reasons.\u00a0 One of which is their policy of Starnet Blocking.\u00a0 Starnet is the system used by member airlines of the Star Alliance in order to make award space available to member airlines.\u00a0 The idea is that if say, Lufthansa has a business class award seat available, members of say Thai or US Airways frequent flier programs can book that seat.\u00a0 The problem was that United was arbitrarily blocking a good number of the seats being made available by other airlines.\u00a0\u00a0 If you belong to any other Star Alliance carrier’s frequent flier program, you could book that seat, but if you unlucky and unwise enough to be a part of United’s MileagePlus program, you were screwed.<\/p>\n

It was bad enough that they were doing this, and it was even worse that this policy was not disclosed anywhere.\u00a0 The only way we know it exists is by comparing award space availability on United with that of other programs.\u00a0 Eventually a great reporter, Nicholas Kralev, was able to get United to admit to the practice.\u00a0 One of the worst things about it was that United never informed it’s own people of the policy.\u00a0 Customers would call up and be told ridiculous untruths that their partners were not offering the seats, when in fact it was United that was blocking other carrier’s offerings from being redeemed.<\/p>\n

Now, You Can Easily Get Around Starnet Blocking<\/strong><\/p>\n

By quickly transferring your United miles to Continental, you can book your awards there.\u00a0 Continental, for the moment, is not doing Starnet blocking.\u00a0 It is not known if they will, someday, adopt this odious and dishonest practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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