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Old May 24, 2018 | 9:17 am
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drewcwsj
15 Years on Site
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Portland, OR
Programs: AS 75K, UA Plt
Posts: 233
A few other thoughts:

- There were 2 UGS's on my PDX-IAH flight and only one got upgraded At 0500 on a Wednesday, are there that many UGSs? That is a tough upgrade. As an AS 75K I haven't missed an upgrade this year.

- My problem with AS is they neutered the AA partnership with domestic legs getting zero anything. I book J for my trips to Ecuador. If I use AA then the domestic half of the trip in paid F gets zero credit. That is wasteful...

- I am trying this experiment with UA for this trip and next trip. I will also book a PDX-DEN work trip in coach to check out E- and upgradeability.

- What is going on with award miles? As a PP my next trip to EC in J which I got a screaming $1,200 deal on only nets me 8,000 award miles. Last year on AS/AA a $1,200 J trip netted me over 25,000 award miles.

- DL is another possibility to examine
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