Originally Posted by
n8-the-gr8
Yes, I get that it's frustrating to see PN7 PZ0, but I also wonder how much of the challenge in using GPU's is related to the fact that with so many 1K's and GPU's as the main means of upgrading, the space just goes very quickly.
I’d wager it’s almost none.
Originally Posted by
n8-the-gr8
As an example, I monitored PZ space very closely last year on LAX - SYD and while PN space sat unused for weeks, the day PZ space opened (at PZ4), I immediately confirmed into 2 of those spaces and within ~6 hours the rest was gone.
The fact that you booked 2 may well have made UA re-evaluate its load projection and decide it could sell the other seats after all. The assumption you’re making, that somebody else was watching and gobbled up the two other seats, isn’t necessarily true.
FlyerTalk is not a representative sample of UA flyers.
Originally Posted by
bocastephen
However, only Delta is able to establish a reputation for a premium product that does get a price premium
DL’s best reputation is on the UA forum. DL flyers love to hate DL in much the same way that UA flyers love to hate UA.
To the extent that they get a price premium, I imagine it has less to do with people being willing to pay more for a superior product — because we have countless examples that people,
en masse, simply aren’t, and more to do with the specific routes that they fly and the hub premiums they’re able to extract.
Nearly every flyer-unfriendly change that UA has implemented has been a copy of something DL’s done, sometimes taken to the next degree (e.g., BE).