Hey, first I must apologize. I saw you were looking at getting on with AA. I was thinking you wanted to know how to book for UA after the merger. The above poster hit it quite good. Whenever I buy offline passes, I go to our travel office and arrange it there. You can't buy offline passes via the same way you list yourself on flights. Being you are not an employee, you will have to have the wife go and get the tickets if your airline is arranged that way.