Originally Posted by Greg P.
When are your travel dates? If you are looking a ways ahead, it might be smart to wait a bit.
If it were me, I might spend the extra 83 pounds to have a chance at an upgrade, but really it's kind of a toss-up as you can still get dividend miles if you take the UA flight.
I would probably take the Southwest flight to Oakland. As you said, it's a short flight and it's easy to get to SF from Oakland on the BART. Or, if you really want to have fun, rent a car and drive from LA to SF.
We are looking to go end of this month. Do you think the price will come down? I honestly cant believe the difference a week makes!! usairways.com want £400 where US Air reservations want £445. Yet unitedairlines.co.uk want £309!
Don't want to drive from LA to SF, done that before, and to be honest we'll probably be too hung over to drive :-)