Originally Posted by itsme
If UA is setting aside more saver seats, they could give us some real numbers and perhaps offset some of the ill-will created by their recent announcement of "MP enhancements." Not likely that they will ever share that data with us, though.
So I've been too busy to go through the recent UA posts, and from your post, I get the impression that the changes are well-trodden ground in the forum... so sorry if this seems naive. It may well be that the overall number of SAVERs went down (or up; I have no clue) but the language that appealed to me in
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,51635,00.html was UA
"has reserved a percentage of Saver Award seats on
every flight to every international and domestic United destination through March 15, 2007."
See, I'm so used (from NW/AS) to having no saver availability on most flights, that even if the overall number went down, I like the idea of being able to book if I'm first to grab it... NW always seems to have availability on 6am flights on odd days of the week, and *never* on a historically popular travel day.
What really impressed me was what an earlier poster also commented on -- on the heaviest travel days of the year (granted, 7 months in advance), I had my choice of 8 flights each way.
The recent changes mean seem to make UA award travel = book far in advance -- but if I can actually use my miles for peak travel periods like Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc... then I'm happy. (As it is, I need to schedule my vacations way off in advance anyway for non-flyer reasons.)
All that said, I certainly empathize with folks that don't like these changes... it just happens to strike me as a rare positive development in how I can spend my miles (for the way I spend, which is never to use a rulebuster)...