Full trip report will come monday but the title says it all... I turned down an op-upgrade because they would only upgrade one of us

True love is giving the upgrade to your true love.

I agree with ScottC. Regardless of who gets the upgrade, you can't sit together and hold hands...

Been married too long I guess, One of us would take the upgrade (the Mrs. of course) and then we would have a "reunion" when we arrive.

True love would be burning some more miles so you could both be bumped up another cabin.

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Help! I've fallen in status and I can't get up.

True love is turning down a double upgrade.

Say it isn't so - United wouldn't - they couldn't - they didn't want to separate our two favorite redheads. That would have made watching your preloaded movies on one DVD player hard!

Nah - true love is voluntarily downgrading (from a paid J ticket) so you can be with your partner. I did this HKG-BKK, and without asking CX upgraded my gf on the way back. I thought that was very nice of them, particularly since she was travelling on an AD25 ticket.

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If it were true love, you would have paid to upgrade you and her in the first place rather than risk your beloved flying in coach!

Love is never having to say "We're in 22F and G."

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True Love is like paella--there are as many ways to make it as there are folks who try.

Peter and Scott, enjoy to the hilt that first blush of love--it is special, unique, amazing and, in all honestly, temporary--but this is definitely the time when you really should sit together on the plane (everywhere your are) and hold hands. Knowing the lovely Alice and the incredibly smart and adorable AnnaS, I know you are both very lucky young men.

Love grows and changes over the years. When babies come along, sometimes the very absolute best gift one can give his/her beloved, is quiet time, alone (even on a plane), or at home, just to go for a walk or lie down and be totally free from any responsibilities at all for a half hour or so. I can remember a point when in time (when I had 2 babies) when just being able to go to the bathroom alone was a real gift of love.

Hunki and I have been together now for 35 years (married for almost 32). We have lived together, dreamed together, combined assets together, had (amazing) children together, made wonderful friends together, worked together, sometimes argued together, traveled together, danced together, worked out together, gardened together, and hopefully, someday we might retire together. Someday, one of us will die first--I don't want to think about that right now.

At this stage of life, we would never pass up a first class seat--even one. We are almost always (99.9% of the time) both in first, except when we do those UA companion cert flights on very short runs where there is often no first class at all. On longer flights, I need the bulkhead to keep my damaged right leg propped up--sorry if that offends anyone, but it is on doctor's orders--but Hunki really prefers to be in row 2, for the extra leg room.

At this stage of life/love, I will always want to sit next to Hunki or one of my kids on a long flight where I want/need to sleep, but I am totally comfortable sitting apart from Hunki--meeting a new friend--when I am perky and don't need to sleep. New stories from a stranger can actually make a long flight pass very quickly.

He did offer it to me, but even truer love is turning it down to be sitting with the one you love.

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Regards,
- Anna

I guess I am in the Sweet Willie crowd
been married too long

Have done that before did not seem to be any different than sitting at the kitchen table night after night or sitting in the family room or sitting together thousands of different places and times.
Actually Jerrie has stated in the past that she prefers not having to sit next to me on planes as it seems the only thing that I do is sleep and she would rather sit next to someone who she will be able to have a conversation with.
Then again I get the best of both worlds - I get to sleep and I get to hear about her conversation with another traveler. Sort of like having surrogate ears.

My girlfriend and I have reached a compromise on our trip to DXB in October. I have a First Class return thanks to my OWE RTW ticket. She has a CW return thanks to my BA Miles . We have agreed that one of us will First on the outbound and the other on the return. We love each other but not enough to invol downgrade to Business!!!!!

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I agree!

Chivalry (and true love) do exist!