Originally Posted by
firecat69
Oh well I was hoping for something brilliant? LOL. But I guess same old story, if you want to use useless Sky Pesos at a fair rate you have to hope a partner will take you and of course that usually means ridiculous layovers etc.
I know its an old tune but it took me exactly 5 minutes to find many choices on CO/UA for 125,000 miles each. Even if I find something with DL partners it will be at least 140,000 miles and the flights will suck where as the CO/UA flights were normal connections.
DL finally made up my mind for me. I will find a way to use my 700,000 miles and then DL has lost a Platinum customer for good.
I will give my business to an airline that rewards it's customers with capacity for miles.
And before the usual defenders jump in here with well up grades are so great for Domestic flights, I have exactly the same success this year with upgrades on UA/CO as I do with DL.
At some point management will have to realize that miles for tickets earned with hard spent money have to be available and not limited to RT in BE at 325,000 miles and up.
On top of that they will have to realize it is time to provide a search engine that does the job it is supposed to instead of receiving the name DUMB from all its customers.
Sorry, but Continental is DEFINITELY not all roses. Yes, it took me 5 minutes to find a flight to South Africa but it took me 6 HOURS to actually get it ticketed on the phone because when I went to purchase it online, it kicked out an error at the last step. Sorry, I will deal with Delta any day over what I have been through with Continental this week. This included the final stage when I was to have received the ticketing e-mail today only to sign on and find they cancelled my return ticket which stopped the ticketing process! Another hour on the phone to get that fixed. Yes, Delta has problems, but the grass is definitely not always greener!