Mar 7, 2019, 10:06 pm
You know you travel UA too much when ...
Dec 8, 2018, 3:32 pm
#31
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: UA Plat
Posts: 154
...when you only realize after you've parked in the home airport's long-term parking lot serving UA that you're exceptionally flying another airline, and need to park in a different long-term parking lot. (I've done this more than once when flying OALs.)
Dec 8, 2018, 8:48 pm
#33
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Programs: UA 1K 1MMer & LT UC (when flying UA); Hyatt Credit Cardist; HHonors Diamond; Marriott Gold via UA 1K
Posts: 6,956
When your space-obsessed 8-year-old nephew asks you "What does Polaris mean? And you reply "That my GPU cleared."
Dec 9, 2018, 3:05 am
#34
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Syd
Programs: UA 1k 1MM, VA G
Posts: 886
Dec 9, 2018, 7:36 am
#36
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2003
Programs: UA*Lifetime GS, Hyatt* Lifetime Globalist
Posts: 12,337
1. You know the actual flight miles between each UA hub and between each hub and focus city without even bother to look up.
2. When you have taken photos of all Polaris entree options that you stop taking photos of them to post in the “Let’s Eat...l thread in FT’s United Forum.
3. After you finish dinner at home, you are the only one still sits at the dinning room table expecting the desert cart serving ice cream sundae, cheese plate and sweet deserts to arrive....
4. Death, tax and UA’s international pre-arrival omlette entree....
5. Your lifetime BIS number is greater than your net worth
6. Your know your lifetime BIS number by heart but don’t really know your net worth number.
2. When you have taken photos of all Polaris entree options that you stop taking photos of them to post in the “Let’s Eat...l thread in FT’s United Forum.
3. After you finish dinner at home, you are the only one still sits at the dinning room table expecting the desert cart serving ice cream sundae, cheese plate and sweet deserts to arrive....
4. Death, tax and UA’s international pre-arrival omlette entree....
5. Your lifetime BIS number is greater than your net worth
6. Your know your lifetime BIS number by heart but don’t really know your net worth number.
Last edited by UA_Flyer; Dec 9, 2018 at 10:29 am
Dec 9, 2018, 7:50 am
#37
Join Date: Apr 2014
Programs: DL Gold, UA nothing (ex-GS), Marriott lifetime Plat, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 920
These are both quite depressing.
Dec 9, 2018, 9:58 am
#38
Join Date: Nov 2012
Programs: BA Bronze, United 1K, HH Gold, SPG Platinum, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,477
Dec 9, 2018, 11:11 am
#40
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 11,469
1. You know the actual flight miles between each UA hub and between each hub and focus city without even bother to look up.
2. When you have taken photos of all Polaris entree options that you stop taking photos of them to post in the “Let’s Eat...l thread in FT’s United Forum.
3. After you finish dinner at home, you are the only one still sits at the dinning room table expecting the desert cart serving ice cream sundae, cheese plate and sweet deserts to arrive....
4. Death, tax and UA’s international pre-arrival omlette entree....
5. Your lifetime BIS number is greater than your net worth
6. Your know your lifetime BIS number by heart but don’t really know your net worth number.
2. When you have taken photos of all Polaris entree options that you stop taking photos of them to post in the “Let’s Eat...l thread in FT’s United Forum.
3. After you finish dinner at home, you are the only one still sits at the dinning room table expecting the desert cart serving ice cream sundae, cheese plate and sweet deserts to arrive....
4. Death, tax and UA’s international pre-arrival omlette entree....
5. Your lifetime BIS number is greater than your net worth
6. Your know your lifetime BIS number by heart but don’t really know your net worth number.
Dec 9, 2018, 12:52 pm
#41
Join Date: Jul 2016
Programs: UA1K | *A Gold
Posts: 767
Or you fly so much you not only recognize the crew, but other pax...
Dec 9, 2018, 5:31 pm
#43
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Haze gray and underway
Programs: UA 1K 2MM, HH Diamond, Marriott 'clink clink' Titanium
Posts: 1,784
Better yet you head out to your usual parking area and realize you took the choo choo and left out of a different airport.
Dec 9, 2018, 6:34 pm
#45
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: MSP
Programs: DL PM, UA Gold, WN, Global Entry; +others wherever miles/points are found
Posts: 14,423
