What did you spend (revenue) on another airline that UA would have normally received?
Jul 18, 2012, 8:31 am
#91
Join Date: Mar 2012
Programs: Mileage Plus 1K; Marriott Platinum; Hilton Gold
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UA web site down, AC got the business
I had to buy a ticket from YVR-BOS yesterday. The UA web site was down for over an hour. 
After trying in vain several times I booked on Air Canada. Ticket was about $1,100, in Z class.
Can anyone fix United's IT FUBAR?
After trying in vain several times I booked on Air Canada. Ticket was about $1,100, in Z class.
Can anyone fix United's IT FUBAR?
Jul 18, 2012, 8:42 am
#92
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ireland
Programs: BA Gold, A3 Gold, BD..oh, wait..
Posts: 4,045
Purchased a nice (cheap) DUB - IAD - LAS trip for later in the year, with the ridiculously low prices available at the moment. It'll be a nice little drop of miles into my A3 *G also.
Jul 18, 2012, 9:55 am
#93
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: COS and PIT
Programs: UA Plat
Posts: 279
PIT-CDG in September on US.
Every other carrier has dropped prices (for Y) into the $870-$900 range. Not UA, which is still hovering at $1100 to fly the 757 through EWR or IAD, or $1200 to get on a 767 through ORD. Discovered I could go out in Y and back in Envoy on US for $1300. Guess what I chose? If UA had matched the $870 in Y, I probably wouldn't even have been looking; as it is I spent more to fly US. This will be my 1st international flight that isn't UA in more years than I care to count.
Every other carrier has dropped prices (for Y) into the $870-$900 range. Not UA, which is still hovering at $1100 to fly the 757 through EWR or IAD, or $1200 to get on a 767 through ORD. Discovered I could go out in Y and back in Envoy on US for $1300. Guess what I chose? If UA had matched the $870 in Y, I probably wouldn't even have been looking; as it is I spent more to fly US. This will be my 1st international flight that isn't UA in more years than I care to count.
Jul 18, 2012, 10:27 am
#94
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Summit County UT
Programs: Delta PM Hilton Diamond Bonvoy Ti/LTP Hertz PC
Posts: 636
Spent about $6k on DL domestic flights this year, but I probably would have done that anyway. However, since the AA EXP status match which I received on 5/29 I have done 11 r/ts on AA (and 1 on DL) and 0 on UA. Spent about $8k on AA so far. Most of that would have gone to UA
Jul 18, 2012, 11:18 am
#95
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Location: Northeast Kansas | Colorado Native
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Within the past month of two, we've sent about five tickets to AA, that would normally go to UA. Probably north of $1500. Still have several tickets to book for the fall, which will likely all go to AA.
Jul 18, 2012, 11:24 am
#96
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: ASE
Programs: UA 1MM, AA1MM PLTPRO, Hertz PC, National EXC, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton/Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum
Posts: 3,357
Other than the SQ deal, I booked a last-minute one-way HKG-DEN with Cathay Pacific to PVG, and AA the rest of the way. ~$1150. And, thanks to the status match, I'll be using a already confirmed SWU on AA to be in C. Good riddance, UA.
Jul 18, 2012, 11:58 am
#97
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Location: BWI
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I've spent about $3500 on US so far that UA would have gotten without hesitation before they killed MP. I'm going to blow about another $1200 on a ticket here shortly.
UA did get a C ticket out of me this year, but that's only because I HAD to fly UA if I wanted *A C to Asia due to FAA and ridiculous codeshare costs. OZ or SQ would have gotten it if foreign carriers would have been allowed, or US would have gotten it if they flew to Asia.
UA did get a C ticket out of me this year, but that's only because I HAD to fly UA if I wanted *A C to Asia due to FAA and ridiculous codeshare costs. OZ or SQ would have gotten it if foreign carriers would have been allowed, or US would have gotten it if they flew to Asia.
Aug 1, 2012, 6:49 pm
#98
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: DSM
Programs: UA 1K, AA EP, DL PL, HH Dia, Marriott Gld, National Exp
Posts: 722
Used to be my first choice, and until they get their act together will only fly UA if can't avoid. Booked last Friday and flew 6 flights on DL over Su/Mo/Tu this week ... $2K to DL. Oh, and this Silver on DL got upgraded 3 of 6 flights, heard on every flight, "Thanks for flying with us, we appreciated your business" and not one delay.
Aug 1, 2012, 8:21 pm
#99
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I'm still only taking UA whenever I have to and it makes sense. SEA-SFO-SLC makes more sense than SEA-PHX-SLC, for example. Less time and less money on UA, so I don't mind it for a short flight.
That said, I just dumped another couple grand on US. Now the woman I'm seeing is starting to fly too. Sponsoring her to silver on US so all that business that I would have suggested she put on UA will also be going to US too. There's a few grand there at least with her and her son traveling.
It's not big money, but it's money UA would have gotten otherwise prior to the merger and destroying MP. Plus the fact that I'll be requalifying for Plat and may even make Chairman's keeps me with US for next year too, while still maintaining some perks for those times I can't avoid UA.
That said, I just dumped another couple grand on US. Now the woman I'm seeing is starting to fly too. Sponsoring her to silver on US so all that business that I would have suggested she put on UA will also be going to US too. There's a few grand there at least with her and her son traveling.
It's not big money, but it's money UA would have gotten otherwise prior to the merger and destroying MP. Plus the fact that I'll be requalifying for Plat and may even make Chairman's keeps me with US for next year too, while still maintaining some perks for those times I can't avoid UA.
Aug 1, 2012, 8:39 pm
#100
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About $3300 on BUD-SFO-BUD on BA this fall.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:17 pm
#101
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Location: LGA/JFK/EWR
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$1,100 on a LGA-DFW AA trip. Used my bounty of SWUs to confirm each way already. Excited for my first AA experience in a decade!
Before my latest debacles, I would have slummed it on UA on one of the ghetto 735s ex-EWR and would have undoubtedly sat in a crappy Y seat. No thanks.
Before my latest debacles, I would have slummed it on UA on one of the ghetto 735s ex-EWR and would have undoubtedly sat in a crappy Y seat. No thanks.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:19 pm
#102
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Seattle, WA
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Posts: 9,198
$1,100 on a LGA-DFW AA trip. Used my bounty of SWUs to confirm each way already. Excited for my first AA experience in a decade!
Before my latest debacles, I would have slummed it on UA on one of the ghetto 735s ex-EWR and would have undoubtedly sat in a crappy Y seat. No thanks.
Before my latest debacles, I would have slummed it on UA on one of the ghetto 735s ex-EWR and would have undoubtedly sat in a crappy Y seat. No thanks.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:26 pm
#103
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Aug 7, 2012, 12:29 pm
#104
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Dubai / NYC
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DXB-FRA-JFK-DXB. for next week. UA never would have gotten the DXB-FRA / NYC-DXB portion as that always goes to EK but up until all these cancellations, I would have flown FRA-NYC w UA. Instead booked that sequent w SQ. (Full F tkt)
Still flying UA JFK-HNL R/T but it's just a Y fare upgraded
Still flying UA JFK-HNL R/T but it's just a Y fare upgraded
Aug 7, 2012, 12:54 pm
#105
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: AA LT Plat, UA 1k/1mm+, National EE, IC Plat, Bonvoy Gold
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$3k last week on a trip to Europe in the spring that has traditionally gone to LH/UA in the past.