Originally Posted by
GSintercept
After reading all this information on non reving it seems as if it is next to impossible on United especially if it is including your family..
Are discounted guaranteed tickets an option so you don't have to be on standby and actually get onto the plane?
The only way to make United non-rev 'benefits' work is if you don't care where you go.
Case in point. My wife and I wanted to go to Hong Kong on UAL. Flight was wide open at 3 hours to departure, with more than 40 seats avail. At 1 hr to departure, all of a sudden 45 United vacation passes appeared out of thin air.
So we walked over to the Honolulu gate, only to have the exact same thing happen. I swear, there's something about mainline UAL employees that makes them wait until the very last second to list for a flight.
We almost gave up, but there was 1 seat left to Kona, HI. My wife got that. I got the jumpseat.
Coming back to the mainland was a whole other adventure that made me rue the day I ever decided to try non-reving on United.
So like I said, if you don't care where or when you go, United nonrev can work.
If you care where or when you go? Save yourself the heartache and get a job that pays an actual living wage so you can afford an actual ticket to go where you want, when you want....