UA has 7x mainline SFO-LAS and 3x mainline LAX-LAS today

Back on topic, here's a story I remember.

1999. Flying Y LGA-GSO with my Mother and three year old sister. None of us has US status though we did have our DM FF#s on the reservation. We showed up at LGA and were told the flight was cancelled. The agent offered us LGA-PIT-GSO and casually mentioned PIT-GSO was operated by a "19 seat propeller plane". At this my Mom had a fit and said there was no way she was flying on such a plane. When my Mom gets started on things like this, she's very intimidating and persuasive.

To make a long story short, they rebooked us LGA-CLT-GSO in First! The LGA-CLT flight (DC-9-30) even had a cold breakfast on it and CLT-GSO was on a lovely old Fokker-100. Ended up being the best part of the trip, though wow was it hard to end up back in Y on the way home. Oh yeah and even though I was 13 years old at the time, I remember being very pleased when I got my Dividend Miles statement in the mail and I got bonus miles for the First Class flights