Originally Posted by
LoveHateRelationship
There's still hidden unpublished benefits that come with GO, just depends on if you care about it or not.
I found that as a GO on long haul J, I get served my meals first. The flight crew also remember you by name and address you by name even in PEY and Y I've found. These are nice little touches I've found that add to the service. Anecdotally though I'd say I get more op-ups as SL than GO. I've been upgraded 0 times since becoming GO. As SL, I used to get upgraded about 25-30% of the time with the same travel pattern.
Same here, when I travel in J class as a GO, I do get greetings when on board (depends if there is a lot of DMs) and they tend to serve your meal first or ask you directly to make a hot one (even for my short haul flight). My recent travel in J with no membership number added, I do feel the difference between a no one and a GO.
For my flights in Y or PEY as a GO, personal greeting is there and the crew is happy to address my request (either water or fast pass). Also, they do address your surname / name when serving meal.
One more thing I think GO is pretty good, you can basically access to any oneworld lounge regardless your travel class, so if you have a long time at airport (even outport) you can do lounge hooping. Same CX outport lounge is not as good as the partner airlines one, say NRT, sakura lounge defintely win and the aa lounge is not bad too. SL cannot access to partner airline lounge if you are travel on PEY/Y. I cant deny the 4 cx lounges in HK is good but they are too crowded these days so I tend to go to other lounge.