Originally Posted by
glex50
That's a point, but it depends on your habits. Starnet filtering has only really seemed to be an issue to me on SFO-FRA on LH, and even then in C. I've come to live with the idea that I'll never get a ticket in F on SQ with my UA miles, and though the concept is irritating, there are only a few routes where I personally could rationalize F instead of C.
And Starnet doesn't seem to hit award Y tickets... At the 1K level, redemption in Y is overall very easy thanks to the extra bucket...US has no such benny.
As you said, it depends on your route. I like to fly around christmas and when US said that LH had four seats on FRA-BLR, UA had squat. It used to be that the filtering was on routes UA had service, but the disease has spread.