Goodbye SkyTeam
 

It's been a good time; little remorse though now that the NWA relationship is kaput. Just nee to get used to the idea of occasionally flying (gasp) UA or (double-gasp) US.

Didn't gasp before when I thought about flying NWA.

I'll miss KLM's maidens, to be sure. But the Scandinavians and SQ Girls more than make up for it.

With the exception of one crew on one flight, I haven't had issues with UA at all this year. That's with just over three dozen flights on them. Their service levels have improved over what I saw in 2007-early 2008 in all areas.

I'll echo ssullivan's sentiment and say that UA has improved - no real big in-flight issues with them this year, and I'd say better than NW service.

Did have one CSR at ORD bark at me earlier this year about refusing to put me on the upgrade list when I was on a full Y ticket (and entitled to a free upgrade) - got 10k miles from UA for that incident (works for me considering it was a 45 minute flight to MSP and I was in an exit row).

Get out the spray paint!

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Long live Star Alliance!

x2

I will be making my farewell at about the last possible domestic-US minute.

My flight (CO 209) is scheduled to arrive in PDX at 11:59 pm tonight.

Flying at 11:20 pm on AF - THE last SkyTeam partner flight out of NYC I think.

They are certainly better in some ways than the post-merger NW. Granted there's more in the way of complimentary snacks on DL/NW in both classes of service, but my experience on my last few NW flights was that the NW crews are not happy about the merger, the service is suffering because of that, and the pre-merger service levels on NW were far better than what's happening now.

UA did surprise me in F this past Monday. I was served a cold plate on IAD-ORD, a fairly short flight. I was actually shocked when the FA offered it. That's the shortest domestic "meal" flight I've had in many, many years, if not ever.

CO767 SEA-IAH departs 1159 PM tonight. Is this the last CO/SkyTeam flight?

Departures from HNL could be later.

CO72 HNL-IAH departs 8:45 p.m. The next destination to the west is Majuro, but it's past the dateline.

Nope, checked that. HNL-IAH departs 845 PM local time which is 1145 PM PDT.

Wirelessly posted (HTC-8500/1.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.6))

We will have to toast at midnight to the new team!

Well, we can toast the exit from the "old team." Remember there's two days of "limbo" where CO is not officially in any alliance!