...And it begins...
Jul 16, 2011, 11:44 am
#31
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Thanks - I'll give it a shot next time. I've been snapped at enough times that I don't even try it anymore. Worse, when the FA's simply push it down without saying anything, which give a nice pinch to the neck.
Jul 16, 2011, 11:53 am
#32
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To the OP, everyone has their own opinion. I for one will gladly take UA's older 757 as they have E+. Then when the CO way of selling upgrades to non elites for tens of dollars happens at least I'm not in a crappy CO Y- seat. Also I'll take the UA regionals with E+ and F over the crappy CO ones on long routes. I don't know the exact stats but it seems to me that CO flys 50 seat regionals on many more long routes than UA flys the 50 seat RJ's. As for the agents both carriers have their good ones and bad ones. In my experience I've had many more good ones on UA then CO. Finally on a recent CO 739 I couldn't even fit my computer backpack under the F seat in front of me, 2B. So it's not just UA planes that have under seat stowage issues in F.
Jul 16, 2011, 12:45 pm
#33
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Wrong. If you place NYC in the "From" or "To" boxes, you will have both LGA and EWR returned as choices. I do it regularly and just checked it to be sure nothing had changed.
Jul 16, 2011, 1:11 pm
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Jul 16, 2011, 1:14 pm
#36
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Jul 16, 2011, 3:02 pm
#37
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Try an award search LHR-NYC and see what you come up with. IME you only get CO results if you use EWR.
Jul 16, 2011, 3:10 pm
#38
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Jul 16, 2011, 3:30 pm
#39
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Jul 16, 2011, 4:25 pm
#40
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Yawn. I'll take the more aged UA A/C (and their far more comfortable Y (unarguable) and F (arguable) seats over the newer CO A/C anyday. Not even close. And feel free to keep making stereotypical arguments w/o any basis in fact. Let me guess - your last UA flying was 5+ years ago. Or you had a single bad flight this year and extrapolate to the whole airline. GMAB.
I have no issues with .bomb - no doubt co.com has some functionality benefits, but the more time I spend on it, the more I see it's not God's gift to airline websites like everyone makes it out to be (longer to post miles, doesn't recognize EWR as part of NYC, not getting outbound/return flights on same page, no instant ticketing, no fare buckets unless you're on the preview site, somehow not set up to get SWUs even though they've been able to deposit for a year now, etc.) Hopefully they can make a good website great by incoroporating .bomb features.
Also, you can thank the "inferior merger partner" for all those benefits you're now enjoying as a 100K+ CO Plat. You know, SWUs, RUs, and all that (which you'll get eventually). You could have done 1MM EQM/year on CO and you never would have received any of that until a year ago.
I have no issues with .bomb - no doubt co.com has some functionality benefits, but the more time I spend on it, the more I see it's not God's gift to airline websites like everyone makes it out to be (longer to post miles, doesn't recognize EWR as part of NYC, not getting outbound/return flights on same page, no instant ticketing, no fare buckets unless you're on the preview site, somehow not set up to get SWUs even though they've been able to deposit for a year now, etc.) Hopefully they can make a good website great by incoroporating .bomb features.
Also, you can thank the "inferior merger partner" for all those benefits you're now enjoying as a 100K+ CO Plat. You know, SWUs, RUs, and all that (which you'll get eventually). You could have done 1MM EQM/year on CO and you never would have received any of that until a year ago.
Fart. I'm sorry, you're right it's completely baseless, of my 110 flights this year only 24 have been on UA metal...my mistake...I'm sure they're perfect. Rah! Rah! Rah! UA placates elites with more legroom in Y...whoopie!
Jul 16, 2011, 7:38 pm
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Here's a thought - since you're so experienced on both carriers, instead of trotting out old (and wildly inaccurate) stereotypes, why not be productive and compare your two sets of metal experiences on:
- UG rates
- 1st meal choice received in F
- How many flights on time / severe delays
- IRROPS experiences
- Broken seat comparison (if any)
There you go
Jul 16, 2011, 7:43 pm
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It's funny, both sides snipe at the weaknesses of the other merger partner to try to make them look worse. In reality what both sides are doing is recognizing that the other carrier was third rate before the merger and the combined carrier will continue to be third rate.
Jul 16, 2011, 8:20 pm
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Jul 16, 2011, 8:25 pm
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Jul 16, 2011, 9:48 pm
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