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Old Apr 19, 2019, 9:29 pm
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zeer0
 
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Originally Posted by spin88
The LH A388 flight is perfectly fine in Y. LH - due to my being *G will give us decent seats.

I am willing to fly a reasonable comfortable Y, and use my status on family trips, but if UA is not going to honor my status or provide a comfortable Y, well then I will look elsewhere, which in this case involves paying more to fly PE.
LH only provides seat selection benefits to *G at check in, which for most longhaul routes where there are plenty of SEN/HON members means the exit rows won't be available anyways.

I also find your reasoning on going from Y to PE bizarre.
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