Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
What you need to answer is what class you fly in. If you fly in C, UA still has a number of Asia flights that use old 777's with no flat beds. AC does have flat beds on all longhaul in C, I believe.
If you fly in Y, E+ will be a significant incentive to fly UA.
If you fly in F, it has to be UA since AC doesn't have F.
Agreed with almost everything. If flying C, I would take AC even when comparing to UA's new seats. AC has a better C product overall. And if you're flying over 100k BIS / year, AC will treat you like a god compared to being 1K on United (they simply don't have as many as United does, so it's easier for them to treat you better). Every op-up I ever got was on AC as an Elite or Super Elite. Not sure how they are now, but in my experience they were quite generous with those. Got 3 op-ups in one year flying YYZ - NRT.