Originally Posted by jsmirand

I still maintain that for the past 10 years it was worth putting in an effort to achieve *S, sometimes accepting a higher fare or suboptimal routing to reach that bracket. This was done mostly with personal dollars for both my wife and I, and *S program was descent with UAL for domestic and international travel.

What I am saying now is that *S with UACO is worthless, and my next purchase will be solely based on convenience, fare at various classes (F, E+, coach) aircraft, route, seats, but achieving *S is no longer a factor in my decision making. They should just get rid of *S as a program.