Originally Posted by
StuckinITH
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As posted previously, there will be non-revs in those Polaris First seats. On our flight ORD to MUC last month, at least 4 were non-revs. At border control in MUC, we heard a young man telling the agent at the next desk that he was only there for a few hours. The whole story he told was: his mother is a flight attendant on United, because of the bad weather in the East Coast he could not get to his destination in the US so he took a detour to MUC in First Class, he was flying back to the US two hours later, he was hoping that it would also be in First Class, he was going to buy candies for his mother for a delayed mother's day. The only thing we thought is that it was good that he was prepared and had his passport with him.
I've heard a few stories like that. Flight Attendants and their buddies who go for a one day RT to Europe in GF, just to get the drinks, etc. In the meantime, if one of us wants to upgrade a paid business fare, it's thousands of dollars.
It's just one more way that United really sticks it in our face that "Employees are always first; Customers are always last." What a sick corporate culture.