Originally Posted by
pmax
I was prepared to switch my company's international travel to UA last year, and had already flown 5 trans-pacific round-trips in first on UA when contacting them. I had almost 300k status miles on Star Alliance alone that year. I asked for GS comp, said no. Asked for 1k comp (though I probably wouldn't have done it anyway), said no. Basically offered a worse deal to us than we already had, so I walked away. Haven't flow UA international since.
Wow . . . this surprises me. Five trans-pac in (I assume) paid F? Something should have come out of that.
Maybe if you had discussed some sort of challenge (you mentioned you could bring other travelers in from your company), see how many folks really flew UA in the next 90 days, etc. to get GS. Seems like UA could have found some way to accomodate this situation.