So I comp'ed over to CO a month ago, and have started to fly their metal a little bit more. I agree with the sentiments of most here about the F experience on CO metal being superior to NW F...But I have had a couple of missed U/G's already, DTW-IAH and LAX-IAH (on a 752, so not really likely anyhow)....and just got to experience the joy that is CO's co-pay program when trying to U/G a flight to HNL:

They wanted 500 bucks and 7500 miles to U/G my fare IAH-HNL last week.

Huh? TO Hawaii? I guess I didn't do enough homework. I didn't realize that their co-pay fees were required for HNL flights.


The really ironic thing is, I paid for F (Z, actually) for $325.00 cash the day before the flight...with no miles.



All this garbage has been making me thing whether I may just be able to stomach DL more than CO. I feel my U/G % will be better (out of AUS/IAH) with DLNW than with CO...and being that I fly 100% domestic, that is the #1 priority, for me.

I kinda hate that I wasted my comp, being that CO will only do it 1 time per member. I'd imagine that there is probably a workaround using a middle name and alternate address sometime in the future...who knows.

I just have such a distaste in my mouth for DL. I have rarely had a good, or even marginal, experience with them. In fact , the day of the official announcement of the merger they charged me a $50 extra bag fee...even though NW had not charged DL elites for the same. I wrote to them, they said, essentially, "sorry".


I gotta decide soon.