Blueboys999

A little unfair on AA there I think. Their 772/763/757 J products are more or less identical in terms of seating with the differences on the 77W getting a lot of coverage on aa.com.

The US products are all much more distinct (and in many cases inferior).

cal_dood

It's been 6 days since my spouse finished her first US airways flights with BAEC number. No activity yet. I flew yesterday and today - let's see how long it takes.

Hannibal Lecter

Not quite since there is:
2 class 767-300 with lie flat seats
777-200 retrofit, not to mention
A321 Transcontinental.

nth_utsera_sth_utsera

Sorry I'd meant to say in contrast to the poor job AA does of explaining how the F product varies so much across its domestic network.

Blueboys999

You're right of course but it would be very hard to provide that information for each flight in the same way BA can't for old/new F or indeed US can't for the different versions of their aircraft. I don't think AA are any better or worse than the others in that respect.

Blueboys999

Agreed. You never quite know until you turn into the cabin from the door.

EDIflyer

Indeed I always expect the unexciting recliner seat and am pleasantly surprised if I get something better but just wait until onboard to see what it is!

janetm

Hi all,

one quick question which I could not find being answered yet (beside the TP question), can I really bring 3 pieces of luggage for free on a US airways flight in Y as BA silver?

This would be my understanding of:

"1st, 2nd and 3rd checked bag fees waived

Gold, Platinum and Chairman's Dividend Miles Preferred members
AAdvantage Platinum and Executive Platinum members
oneworld Sapphire and Emerald members"

from: http://www.usairways.com/en-US/trave...epolicies.html

Any experiences already?

Thank you and best regards

whatloyalty?

Hi all, just wanted to share my experiences of US air this week.

I was on the FRA Flight to CLT on the 31st March and I was only allowed to check in 2 bags free, apparently the system did not allow me to add a third... the third bag was a chargeable bag but they waived this as at the time no one knew what they were doing. GOOD FOR ME :-)

No recognition of your status nor did they really care about priority boarding.

For their TP points, I got 70 TPs for the FRA to CLT leg and 20 TPs for the CLT to MIA leg. I was flying in Y. The special promotion at the moment with BA is brilliant!

Other things to note was that the food was painfully aweful.. The worst of it was the return leg back to FRA from CLT where the breakfast was a very sweet lemon cake with tea/coffee.. Overall service was not the best either, if you are used to BA WT, you will find that the in flight service on this airline is probably a lot worst. In fact so bad that you probably can't make a fair comparison... I felt that the crew seem to be disinterested and have run out of steam. Has anyone experienced this?

Overall score (10 being outstanding) I rate usair a solid 3/10. The only positive for me is the TPs and the special promotion.

cal_dood

Thanks! You are the first one to report any kind of TPs on usair! Do you know how long it took for those to post?

lowfareair

I'm having this issue trying to book some nonstop PHL-YUL flights. Ba.com shows 'no flights available' when trying to book the itinerary, even though USAirways.com shows the lowest tier available with nonstops on many days. Trying other days so far has only given me one option - a 3 hour connection in LGA.

Does anyone know if BA/US is restricting award space, or if this is just a glitch? Would I have any better luck trying to call and have it booked that way?

Mattyb44

I hope to confirm these 70TP soon also! Seems whatloyalty flew 5 days before me so I have hopefully no more than 5 days to wait for them to post!

If 70TP post, that surely wont be left like that for too long!

@whatloyalty did you also receive double avios? as per the promotion?

corporate-wage-slave

And thank you for coming back with these comments, very interesting. In addition to how quickly they posted (presumably no more than 15 days), could you also let us know whether this was a discounted / inflexible ticket? The reason being that if it was, the CLT to MIA leg in particular would be normally 10 TPs, though the BA calculator has not shown this for US Airways yet.

As to the poor quality of service - well this is an airline which is not going to exist in a few years time and so it must have some impact on staff morale. Furthermore US Airways roots were towards a lower cost model compared to, say, AA. However over recent years - and with the arrival of Southwest - the difference between them all has narrowed a lot, particularly in Economy / Coach.

BA_Pax

Hi, I can let you know my Tier Point posting(s) from last week. Flew DUB-PHL in J on Thursday and 140 points had posted by Sunday.

Cheers.

corporate-wage-slave

Excellent, that's the first confirmation I've seen that business gets business TPs! I hope you got more than 12,000 Avios too? Thank you, I will amend some of the early posts in this thread.

I've also made an Edinburgh to Philadelphia booking, and can confirm that the low level of surcharges on redemptions: £160 in Business in that direction, an almost incredible £1.50 from PHL to EDI in Business, same 40k Avios as BA. So from EDI to PHL and back to EDI, US wants 80k Avios and £161. BA via LHR is 80k Avios and £573.