And yet they expect me to fly them for access to the club.This time it was a trip to Austin Texas. I looked at United airlines first. The United airlines trips were consistently 8 to 10 hours and length with a change in planes. And the flight times were not that great. Alaska airlines had a Non-Stop to Austin from Seattle that takes 4 hours. Of course I'm going to choose Alaska rather than spend another five to six hours traveling on UA.

So yet again, after November I will be penalized by United for not using United when United is terribly inconvenient for many of the places that I go lately.

And they didn't even offer me the hometown club exception that they offered other folks.