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Old Mar 31, 2010 | 9:20 am
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avidflyer
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Originally Posted by Denolloyd
.. any of you?

I have been a DL PM for several years. I am very satisfied with the hard product, FA's, route structure, and BE award tickets. That being said, as much as I love DL, I am very close to doing a status match to UA. Not saying I'm leaving, but to test the waters.

While DL has lots of attributes I adore, due to the absurdly high M fares, I feel the need to look elsewhere. I read GTITAN's (thanks!) detailed posting regarding the SWU Certs of the major carriers, and decided to spend some time in the forums doing my own research.

After much review, it seems UA offers a decent SWU (6 at 100K) which may be used at a decent price. In addition, UA offers complimentary elite upgrades at this time. Lastly, if one misses an upgrade, E+ seems like a good alternative to Y.

So, I'm just curious if any of you have started to cheat on DL, and if so, how do like your new fling.

Cheers

BTW, lets not turn this into a heated debate. I'm simply interested in those of you whom have spent lots of time flying DL and have recently tried other carriers, and what your thoughts are.
Hello my name is AvidFlyer and I have not been 100% faithful to Delta.

I have cheated many times over the last year and I have to say it was fun. It was not "love" but, well you know, it was very good in many ways. That said I still am going home to Delta every night because of the boring stuff they tend do very well. I guess I will continue to have flings and keep coming back home to DL unless I find what it is I am looking for which is the schedule/price of DL and the ability to upgrade reasonably (read not cheap) priced INT tickets...the allure of real SWU's are tough for a guy to ignore.

OK, I wish I could say I feel better but I feel dirty. I am a bad man....a very bad man.
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