Originally Posted by
mitchmu
If anything, I've found a slight improvement in food on sCO compared to sUA. You're not suggesting the food with sUA was anything other than sickening before the takeover, are you?
I actually liked most of the food under PMUA (within the parameters of airline food). Of course, I think that on the whole, the PMCO food was an improvement. The problem is that today, we're at a point where the food is IMHO worse than it ever was before. At this point, even the greasy cheeseburger would be an improvement over several of the "meals" I've experienced.
Originally Posted by
mgcsinc
DidItClear is showing a 60% overall upgrade rate for 1K's. I'm not saying the data is perfect, but it's a shade better than anecdotal, and it suggests less doom and gloom than (I think) you're suggesting. Although it certainly is a step down from the stats reported on
udustats.
UDUStats is a good comparison point for the effect the merger has had on 1K (and probably other elites) upgrade rates. I'm not sure how widely it's used these days--I do still enter my flights there, bringing down the averages I am sure
--but I think it's a better picture of where things were pre-3/3.
I save my BPs in a shoebox (in envelopes by year--yes, I'm o.c.d.), and glancing back at BPs pre-3/3 is worth a sad chuckle. Even as a 1P, I sat up front more often than I do now, and my pre-merger 1K years are almost exclusively F or C.
Another factor to take into account is that 1Ks lost a ton of RPUs in the merger.
I have to fly 150k just to earn what I did at 100k under PMUA. That's a 50% devaluation.