Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
..For us, they've been the difference between staying local and seeing many countries all around the world. We're spoiled and cannot imagine traveling across any ocean without them.
Flying other carriers worked just fine for me.
If you're flexible, you should be near 100%, so I really don't think you're as flexible as you think you are.
I am not flexible when it comes to destinations. And yes pre 2012 SWUs often worked. But they stopped once renamed into GPUs.
But I am somewhat unfair - they do work on LH and that is where they will be used henceforward. And even in the worst case - should the ug not clear - I will still get a proper meat dish unlike on UA.