]#1 One of my best friends matched his US CP status to 1K on UA (and got the same level of status on CO, DL, NW and AA).
So your friend plans on flying 600K next yr to maintain status. To the best of my knowledge - UA DOES NOT status match to 1K except in rare instances of spend. They do not match UA status. AA does not comp to EXP . I think your friend is spinning you a tall tale. Also is your friend aware that status matches are technically once in a account deals - what a waste .
#2 I figured that I would have a problem with the later segments if I didn't show up. I figured that if I called UA and told UA I wouldn't make the flight and asked to confirm that my future segments were OK, I would have been told the truth. I was told to have myself un-checked in and then my segments would not be cancelled. UA lied to me. That's why I think I should get a travel credit rather than losing all of my money (my own, on a leisure ticket). If UA wants to follow its policies re: ticket cancellation, it should also follow its "Customer Commitment" policies, featured on its website, which to me don't provide that UA will lie to its customers.
You didnt answer my question - did you get an employee ID, name and call center . Otherwise you get to write a letter that says well I spoke to "someone" that said it would be OK. My response if I received this letter would be be .........sure right
#3 True but those passenger headcounts are sometimes guesstimates; I've seen FAs on US say, "well, I think there about X number of people on board?", get a response of "no, there should be Y on board" and then reply, "well, then my headcount shows Y". I've also seen the manifest printed before all passengers have been assigned seats. Thus I'd reasonably expect that a no-show would result in the same consequences as someone who boards a plane without having his boarding pass collected.
Well - obviously not
