HELLO ALL. NEW TO THE FORUM. BASED IN DENVER. SUMMIT LEVEL STATUS WITH F9. YOUR THOUGHTS ON UNITED. CURRENTLY F9 HANDLING ALL MY DESTINATIONS, HOWEVER AM I MISSING THE BOAT WITH UNITED MILEAGE PLUS FFP? CURRENTLY JUST USING MILEAGE PLUS VISA AND ACCUMULATING MILES THROUGH PURCHASES.

YOUR HELPFUL EXPERIENCE WELCOME.

I have been a Frontier loyalist but I'm not too thrilled with EarlyReturns (for specific reasons why, read the other current Frontier thread) I'm actually thinking about going back to UA since MileagePlus is a superior program and the attitude seems to have greatly improved on Concourse B.

I was once Prem or PremEx out of DEN, it will take MUCH more to get me back to UA than dealing with some of the shortcomings that Early Returns has. I have split my flying between HP, CO and F9 over the past three plus years. Now that F9, as you mentioned, is going into more and more markets, my CO days are numbered. Using F9 and HP (and YX when I go back east) works for me.

Granted there is no upgrade on F9, but I still would rather sit in coach on F9 than E+ on UA, especially on one of F9's new A319's. It was nice to sit up front on UA, but upgrades got to be a bigger and bigger hassle, so being in back of the curtain was where I would most often be, especially as a lowly Premier.

The plusses for F9, which include using the bridge at DIA, people who uniformly seem genuinely interested in my business, and dealing with a company which is on better financial footing, mean that I personally will be staying on the 'A'or 'C' Concourse.