US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Meal Service PIT-SEA

I am going to SEA in a few weeks, taking the late (8:55pm) PIT-SEA flight. Was considering using my miles to upgrade to F, but am concerned this is a snack flight (cold chicken plate) as opposed to full dinner service. But since it is such a long flight, I may want to upgrade anyway.

The return flight is the 2:11pm SEA-PIT 757, which should be worthwhile to upgrade, because it is a lunch flight. Does anyone know if there is a prearrival snack on that flight?

Also, how do you upgrade a ticket using miles? I am not buying the ticket. Can it all be handled at the airport, or do I have to go through the mess of doing a reissue?

Thanks for some answers. My status is on UA, but I need to take US on this trip because it is a nuisance to make the trek to SYR to take another airline for a short trip.

A 9:00 p.m. departure will certainly be a cold chicken plate flight.

Well - as it is a transcon, upgrading to F is worth it either way - unless you can easily sleep in a coach seat.

To upgrade, just call the reservations folks and ask them to upgrade your flight using miles. They'll pull up the record - and you then ask to have the 20k miles deducted. Of course, as JetTroop learned, if there's no G class availability, you have a problem. So you may want to check Itn.com out (using expert level) to see if there are any G seats available on your flight. Or just call reservations, and ask if there are upgrade seats available before you have the miles deducted.

Good luck.

[This message has been edited by CLTFlyer (edited 01-28-2001).]

That flight to SEA should be a level 1 service flight, which means dinner with all the trimmings, especially ice cream sunday's for dessert.

Originally posted by phllax:
That flight to SEA should be a level 1 service flight, which means dinner with all the trimmings, especially ice cream sunday's for dessert.

Really? That late?? I did a PHL-SAN run some months back that was about an 8:30 departure - cold chicken.

Originally posted by ITRADE:
Really? That late?? I did a PHL-SAN run some months back that was about an 8:30 departure - cold chicken.



I did a 9:00 PM PIT-SAN last week. Cold chicken plate it was... Doubt PIT-SEA be any different at that time.

[This message has been edited by Arrzee (edited 01-29-2001).]

It does say snack on the timetable.

BTW, do all non-redeye west coast-east coast get a light snack prior to arrival in F?

Originally posted by terenz:
It does say snack on the timetable.

BTW, do all non-redeye west coast-east coast get a light snack prior to arrival in F?

From what I remember, yes.