AA is not that bad, in fact I flew them exclusively when I lived in Dallas and never had any real problems. Surprisingly, when I was not an elite with them, they helped me numerous times with rebooking and irrops, as well as standby situations when I wanted to get home earlier. Plus 2-3 seating in the MadDogs = ^

Oh, and their options to Lubbock are a little more frequent.

Yeah, but I'd still rather connect through IAH and fly CO. Of course this could all change depending on the current merger madness, which I personally hope results in no merger at all.

Since I no longer will use US, I think that I may stay in the *A with BD altho my M&M guys have shown me a shortcut to SEN. But there is no shortcut to HON and that wonderful FC terminal in FRA. I think that it may pay to wait around for a while and see what, if anything, AF-KLM does for NW and DL and what, if anything, that LH plans for North America (outside of maybe getting you a free cocktail on Jet Blue :)).

I think I have an extra hole in my head. I just finished reading this thread from start to finish (yay, jetlag!) and i'm speechless yet highly entertained.

I'm glad to see i'm not the only one who wants to make trips just to fill out the flightmemory map, thanks ALCO!

Ain't that the truth. I've noticed the treatment you get from UA is very dependent on a) the airport you're in and b) your status. Last year, when I was a Prem Exec, i got a much different treatment then my coworkers who were just Premier. The biggest of which, I always got a US call center while they always got the ICC. Now as a 1K, while i've barely used it, they are even more nice to me.

And while the question of paying for RCC membership was brought up earlier in this thread, it is a godsend during weather delays at ORD. While on a segment run back in Dec i got stuck in ORD and the CS counters were insane. One quick trip after another (due to all the different cancellations), took care of all my issues and i spent less then 20 minutes inline/at a counter all day, and yes, I was there ALL day.

It gets better. My third, and final, flight of the day was ORD-IAH on a UA Express EMB-170. I had upgraded to F, and during the boarding process, the captain came out to use the front lav. He immediately came out of the lav looking rather disgusted and opened the door to show it to the flight attendant. I heard him say "We can't fly with that." Apparently the toilet was on the verge of overflowing. Maintenance was called, and after a quick inspection, the maintenance guy said "I'm not touching that. Call lavatory service." They came, and said "It's plugged up -- that's a maintenance issue." Maintenance came again and a supervisor was called, and 40 later, the lav was "fixed" by a maintenance guy locking the door, and taping an out of order sign over the door handle. The crew was less than happy, but at this point, we were just short of an hour delay, and a decision was made to go ahead and fly and just deal with it.

About halfway to IAH, I looked up the aisle from where I was seated in 2A, and noticed that the floor in the galley and boarding area was wet. Yep, the toilet had finally spilled out onto the lav floor, and stuff had run under the door. Fortunately there was not really any odor, and the stuff on the floor never made it back to the carpet in the aisle. But it was still rather disgusting to have to walk across it to get off the plane at IAH.

UA is so far behind the curve. CO had feces rivers on its aircraft :-:months:-: ago.

Could be CO Forum post of the year.

Yep. But this wasn't really even UA. This was Shuttle America, sister company of our very own Chautauqua.

Most Shuttle America (Delta E-185/190) flights I have been on have been quite good.

My Shuttle America flights on DL and UA haven't been bad. Some have even been really good. In fact, I just got off a UA Express EMB-170 operated by Shuttle America, and the flight was great.

that would be great, I could finally work out my rage, sadness and anger towards UA that has been building up inside me ever since I told them to go f**k themselves. I'd even give up my unused UA miles for extra clods!

Well, apparently, John Mayer flies US: http://blog.honeyee.com/john/archive...cbook_air.html

If you click on the top picture you can see his US Airways ticket. Don't know why I thought that was funny or why I posted it here.

The Macbook Air he is using looks nice :cool:

It appears that the Significant Otter wished to access my onepass account whilst I was in class, to add my upcoming flight to MSY to her schedule. Thing is, she didn't know my pin. Apparently, she didn't know that if you enter the wrong pin repeatedly, it locks the OnePass account...

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