What's the Stupidest, Least Substantive UA-Related Thing You Can Complain About?
Sep 25, 2014, 9:32 am
#1486
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Sep 25, 2014, 9:49 am
#1487
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Sure. The post was about an alternative to water....you know, something with flavor. 
Sep 25, 2014, 9:56 am
#1488
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Sep 25, 2014, 10:13 am
#1489
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I was upgraded on a CR7 the other day and, while that was great (relatively speaking), there was no curtain covering the steps by the door! How low-budget... 
Also, on a different CR7 flight that day on which I was upgraded, I was offered a snack box, but wasn't hungry at the time. I forgot about it and it was only after I got to the airport that I started getting hungry and realized that the FA only reminded twice about the snack box. If only she had reminded me one more time, I probably would've opted to have gotten a snack box.
Also, on a different CR7 flight that day on which I was upgraded, I was offered a snack box, but wasn't hungry at the time. I forgot about it and it was only after I got to the airport that I started getting hungry and realized that the FA only reminded twice about the snack box. If only she had reminded me one more time, I probably would've opted to have gotten a snack box.
1K, only twice
Plat, only once
Sep 25, 2014, 2:29 pm
#1490
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Sep 25, 2014, 3:47 pm
#1491
Join Date: Apr 2004
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My complaint: The Philosophy lip balms were waxy and grainy in both amenity kits on my recent SFO-CDG-SFO flights.
It seems like a least-substantive complaint, but the lip balm is the only amenity in that kit that I care about. I can handle the greatly-reduced number of tissues, and the clever two-piece toothbrush that falls apart when you try to use it, but I actually look forward to stocking up on the lip balm. Poor me -- now I'll have to spend $1.39 for a tube of Chap-Stik.
It seems like a least-substantive complaint, but the lip balm is the only amenity in that kit that I care about. I can handle the greatly-reduced number of tissues, and the clever two-piece toothbrush that falls apart when you try to use it, but I actually look forward to stocking up on the lip balm. Poor me -- now I'll have to spend $1.39 for a tube of Chap-Stik.
Sep 25, 2014, 4:02 pm
#1492
Join Date: Jul 2013
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One time I got a kit w/o the facial wipe and I was disappointed.
Sep 26, 2014, 12:37 am
#1493
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The button hole in my napkin IAH-EWR first today wasn't big enough
Sep 26, 2014, 12:40 am
#1494
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Sep 26, 2014, 12:46 am
#1495
Join Date: Aug 2013
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I think I can buy a box of 500 toothpicks at the 99 cent store. You must start somewhere to save $2B - start with toothpicks!
Sep 26, 2014, 9:09 pm
#1497
Join Date: Feb 2010
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No recognition for 30 years of MP membership
Sep 27, 2014, 12:04 am
#1498
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Sep 27, 2014, 1:00 am
#1499
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: ORD
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Every time i see a "UA" plane now i think it's a CO plane is my only complaint since i don't fly them. I always now have to remind myself oh yeah that's UA now.
Sep 29, 2014, 8:46 am
#1500
Join Date: May 2010
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I fly out of ORD a lot and am always making the trek between UA terminal B and UA terminal C. Out of all my walks through the underground passage (probably hundreds of times), I have yet to see all eight people movers working at the same time. Typically, there are only seven, sometimes less. You would think that if they break down so frequently, they would look for a different vendor.