Originally Posted by
Boraxo
So yes I get that UA wants to sell the seats. And if UA can't sell the seats then it wants to give them free to GS before anyone else. But if the result is that GPUs/RPUs can't be used by the rest of us except by rolling the dice then why award them at all? Giving something that is useless does not engender loyalty and is worse than giving nothing.
I fully understand, and don't resent UA for wanting to sell their seats. What pushed me to the competition is UA's practice of giving non-elites lucrative upgrade offers and not extending the same offers to those of us who actually demonstrated loyalty. But I get it, Oscar, you want to create new elites. But in doing so, a majority of my long haul flights are now on LH, BA, KL, SK, and OS because their upgrade playing field is level.