I agree that there is a sort of apples and oranges comparison but the reality for us was our last TATL flight with UA --EWR to AMS last May, the E+ seats were miserable the food was unidentifible as well as inedible and the plane was filthy half way across. We gave a lot of thought to taking the then new route LAX to MEL on the 787 but the price was almost as high as what we paid for ANZ and at 3 months out I had to book and they would not allow any MUAs at that point. We still do most of our LAS-EWR trips on UA and continue to remain unimpressed despite paying for F on many of those trips when the fares are cheaper. We have EWR-SFO-YYV and ANC-SFO-LAS this summer all in F so that will pretty much be it for UA and us unless we see some major improvements.