Originally Posted by
Halo117
Trust me this happens a lot less than AA. I am switching all of my business to CO as I have had it with AA and their mechanicals. AA has a decent system in place for irrops but i guess you only get good with practice and AA has a lot of that
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I will say - that I have been flying CO for about 5 years now, prior to that trAAsh, and prior to that United. I left UAL after UAL exited the NYC market.
AA is well, trAAsh.
In those 5 years of flying CO, I have not been delayed because of a mechanical problem. Not one. I think it's because CO's planes are generally brand new, fuel efficient and very well maintained. Not one mechanical problem. And I do quite a bit of flying.
CO's personell are also well trained, and generally follow established procedures/the manual. If fly CO enough, you start to notice all the consistencies.
Onepass used to be sleazypass - but at the end of the day, if I want to use an award, I want to travel at the time & place that is most convenient to me. If CO/UA can't do it and a partner can, why not?. Is this not the promise of Star Alliance?
CO is getting quite a bit of feeder traffic from *A - this has to go both ways.
I will be quite disappointed if starnet blocking comes up in any sort of form.
As any NYC flyer, we have choices.