ABSOLUTELY no contest. Pay the $100 and take the extra flight.

UA will STILL be in Chapter 11 in 2004.

My guess is that there will be 6 x Int'l upgrade Certs mailed in FEB 2004.

And more likely than not read more like a Sweet Spot than a vanilla SWU.

The flak they got worldwide this Feb from the H+ nonsense stung them so much we got the 4 x Sweet Spots. And such a bauble mid 2004 would not surprise me at all either to KEEP us glued to UA seats.

Joh and I got mailed TWENTY SWU's this year, plus various other SWU's for other reasons and we have no hope of using them all IF they always take them, whih they do not of course. Plus 4 HK49s for each Q we travel 10K plus 2 x special 1K Companion certs useable even on T and S fares domestically. Plus a 1K email line that clears all waitlists we have ever been on.

AA does not offer anything near as good as this. Not does CO, nor does DL, not does NW. No-one does!

As we all know this stuff is NOT posted on the website, and unless you are on FT would likely not be aware of it.

Pay the $100.

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