Originally Posted by
FlyingBeanCounter
Looking at the results, roughly half of us should have or should be in the process of switching to another program.
I switched to DL. I have been busy booking partner flights to get to their MQD requirement. by the end of march. My last two UA flights are to and from SJD later this month. I burned pretty much all of my miles (I have like 10k left). I am losing 320 PP, but that is unavoidable. I tried to use the GPU's earlier this year but they would never clear. On the bright side, I already have 4 Global Upgrades on DL, so I got half back. I figure it is a fair trade.
Has anyone else actually moved?
I contemplated doing a DL status match, but with an infant in tow now, I have much less flexibility to go out an do a mileage run (even if I wanted to) in order to hit the benchmark for Platinum Medallion. Also, getting to EWR is simply far easier and more convenient, IMO, than having to deal with LGA and definitely JFK. No interest in flying DL out of EWR since it means I will have to connect pretty much anywhere I want to go.
So...I am sticking with UA. Hitting Platinum will be a cinch with my (soon-to-be) FPQP, and there's a possibility that, since most of my travel is going to be concentrated on business travel, that I can still make a run for 1K. It's unlikely, but there's more of a shot to keeping meaningful status on UA than it would be starting over on DL. I have not bothered considering AA given that they seem to be having a lot of trouble operationally, and some of their hard product is even more ancient than UA's.