What did you spend (revenue) on another airline that UA would have normally received?
Sep 16, 2014, 3:45 pm
#361
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Sep 16, 2014, 3:47 pm
#363
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Sep 16, 2014, 3:49 pm
#364
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Sep 16, 2014, 3:50 pm
#365
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Sep 16, 2014, 3:51 pm
#366
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Sep 16, 2014, 3:54 pm
#367
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If you are going to make a habit of this, try the status match challenge. I also had my first DL flight in a long time this year, but have been flying as Plat. (So far, DL has been better than UA, but not enough to make up for SkyPesos.)
Sep 16, 2014, 3:57 pm
#368
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Originally Posted by Originally Posted by iflyuaaa
I think if you are Spg platinum, you get put at the bottom of the upgrade list after they do their elites
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Sep 16, 2014 at 4:50 pm Reason: merged consecutive posts by same member / cleaned up formatting
Sep 16, 2014, 4:01 pm
#369
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So far, over the last 3 months since my status challenge, I have spent $25K that would have gone to UAL. As an aside, the e-mail I sent to 1K Voice informing them of my intention to leave after 1.8 Million miles and many years with them never received a response.
Sep 16, 2014, 4:09 pm
#370
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DL RJ's in F:
- Bottle of water on seat
- Pillow, blanket on seat
- Glassware
- Tray linens, meals served on china (if meal flight)
- WiFi (I think DL is done with WiFi on the RJs now)
DL has done a really nice job narrowing the gap between mainline and RJ service.
- Bottle of water on seat
- Pillow, blanket on seat
- Glassware
- Tray linens, meals served on china (if meal flight)
- WiFi (I think DL is done with WiFi on the RJs now)
DL has done a really nice job narrowing the gap between mainline and RJ service.
Sep 16, 2014, 4:37 pm
#371
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Sep 16, 2014, 5:00 pm
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DL does still have aircraft without wifi (or power or in-seat IFE). I flew one of them (an MD90) MSP-SFO recently. They also neglected to clean the aircraft. I was less than impressed by DL overall (though the new terminal at MSP is SPECTACULAR).
Sep 16, 2014, 5:01 pm
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DL has had mainline WiFi done for a couple years now. If you didn't have WiFi, it was probably INOP.
Sep 16, 2014, 5:50 pm
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What did you spend (revenue) on another airline that UA would have normally received?
Wow. Amazing. Yes it had wifi. The snack basket on an rj was way better than us. And the fa loaded me up. Like 2 of every item and there was a lot of stuff. Drink in a glass. And 3 limes and I didn't even ask. 2 shots of vodka. I am beyond impressed. I'm so glad I'm not on ua. $1000 more bucks this year there and then I'm done unless it really really makes sense to use them. Some lucky friend is gonna get my 8 gpus next year lol (no I'm not giving them away here so plz don't ask)
Sep 16, 2014, 5:55 pm
#375
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WiFi is easy to install. As for the power and IFE, they just recently bought and are still bringing in airplanes from other (mostly foreign) carriers, and it takes time to get the airplanes scheduled into the proper maintenance facility to get the upgrades done.