Originally Posted by
kyym
Come back to LH CL!
Am sitting in the FRA FCL on my way to Mumbai, and the UA/LH combo is just awesome with being able to use SWU's to u/g to F on LH subject to availability - which is completely fair and makes sense that you can't confirm these in advance, but that you can get them at the airport.
With the addition of CO and the EWR-India non-stops, UA/LH just blows EK out of the water for residents in the US traveling to India regularly on work in paid C/J.
Have one last EK trip booked this summer with my wife and infant son on Y (the change in lounge access rules has really turned me off EK), and will try to use my ~150K odd EK miles to upgrade. If not - I'll buy something on High Street and am calling it curtains on EK. May still make the occasional J trip on EK if the fare is low, but there's almost no value in keeping Gold when flying on J and so it's certainly curtains on EK Gold, even if not on EK itself.
+1 (not taking your family on an EK trip though
I spent some thoughts on my next trips and I must admit that EK became less competitive based on the prices. I think they had awesome fares last year but now being on the same level or even above the prices of LH, SQ et al I cannnot really think of a reason to go with EK when comparing *G and Skywards Gold benefits, so curtains closed for the time being.