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Old Mar 11, 2014 | 10:15 am
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buckeyefanflyer
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Comparisons to United

I have flown WN at times but mostly a CO/UA flyer the last 25 years having the large CLE operation. I have almost 800,000 lifetime miles. I flew several WN flights the past 3 weeks here are some thoughts/comparisons on what I feel are better at WN.

(1) No change fee. UA charges $200.00 to make a change plus if it is a last minunte change fares could be very high so you also could pay a substancial fare difference. On Saturday I was booked on WN CLE-FLL RT and changed to CLE-PHX RT not only there is no change fee I got a lower fare CLE-MDW-PHX-BWI-CLE at the last minunte.

(2) WN serves light snacks in Y, UA you get nothing.

(3) Great aircraft turnaround times, on my flights once the pasengers get off the inbound only a few minuntes latter your flight is boarding plus when the door is shut it seems on WN aircraft push back within a few minuntes where on UA it is longer.

(4) Airports I have used on WN to change planes are much less congested and not very far distances to get your next flight. These airports are BNA, MDW, BWI, and STL.

(5) WI-FI on new 737's, free flight tracking and some TV. UA is getting this now.

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