nycityny

You will find that United crew tend to make up rules based on their whim and the only consistency is that there is a lot of inconsistency. The fault lies with management providing poor training and communication, particularly when it comes to "new" benefits prescribed for passengers. It often takes quite awhile before such benefits make their way through the system and are uniformly applied.

The consensus in this thread has been that E+ passengers on premium transcons are entitled to more than one alcoholic beverage. But one could see why flight attendants might confuse that with the one drink restriction for 1Ks. In theory it is not confusing as it is two different situations. But again, bad training and communication by management.

If a benefit is announced but nobody on staff provides it then does it really exist?

EWAarghhh

unbelievably, my RPU was clearly at about t-50 hours for my Sunday red eye SFO-EWR . now i have another red eye LAX-EWR coming, this time I paid MUA as a part of an international itinerary, fingers crossed.

Phil Level

This post brings to mind the classic Robin Williams skit on Golf...
UA clears just enough RPUs on SFO/LAX-EWR "To give you (expletive deleted) hope!"

PTahCha

Because the policy is unique to these specific routes, I've found some crew confused the premium transcon E+ alcohol rule with international flights' rule (beer and wine only) or GS/1K rule (1 drink only). Perhaps they need to add the expectation as part of the meal print out add it to the pre-flight briefing.

Kacee

I hadn't flown UA premium t-con in over a year, but DL flights were all at least $1k more, so did UA SFO-EWR this weekend. Not a great experience in either direction. The four hour delay last night, resulting in a 2:25 a.m. SFO arrival didn't help (on the plus side, the drive home to Oakland at 3 a.m. took a record 24 minutes ).

Service wasn't very good either direction . . . FA last night tried, but didn't seem to understand that with an 11:40 p.m. Sunday night departure, we all pretty much just wanted to be left alone. I didn't eat, but last night's menu was certainly not inspiring - short rib, grilled chicken breast, lasagna. How many times have we seen all that before? UA of course loses big to DL at both ends on the lounge front. And EWR - with the exception of Classified - was its usual pit of unpleasantness (not that JFK is so much better). Oh, and my seat didn't fully recline . . . stopped about 2-3 inches short, which meant two big seams in the cushions then a gap between the leg and foot rests.

Based on this experience, for future flights, I'd be willing to pay up to about $300 extra to fly DL. So UA was still the right call at $1k savings, but it's pretty sad how far the ps experience has fallen.

east_west

It has been reported that BOS<->LAX will convert PS service as of October 29.
https://thepointsguy.com/news/united...ston-lie-flat/

However, the 752s revert to 738s on Feb 14th, 2019.

Deciding about a post-February booking. Should we be concerned this is just a trial of the lie-flats, or is UA committed to this for a reasonable period of time?

wxguy

It's most likely that the updated schedules have not been loaded yet.

chrisl137

They swapped in the 752s a few years ago for that time of year (link to thread) but without making them full ps service and just sold it as F. IIRC there was another thread where they did 6 weeks with the 752s once a day in each direction (maybe 2016?). So unless UA says they're doing ps, it might be regular F in a 752, which I got a few weeks ago IAD-LAX for an upgrade price the same as the low end on a 737 (~$50/hr).

Jeffkitref

WineCountryUA

The plane does not make the route PS (or p.t.s.), that route regardless of the plane will be sold as standard domestic service.

IAH-OIL-TRASH

Kacee

Well it's debatable these days whether you get better meals on ps, but you do get pillow/blanket/lounge access

BullishGS

Main course on P.S is usually comparable to domestic F. The sundae is the real winner.

ajGoes

I'm booked on UA247 on 10/29. The change seats map appears to be a 777-200 version 3 with quite a few seats missing: 1A/B, 39 and 40C/J, and a bunch at the very back.

Flight 247 shows this type on all dates I've looked at beginning 10/28/18. I'm wondering a) where are the missing seats, and most importantly, b) if this bird really flies, will a lowly Silver have a chance of a CPU?

jsloan

247 is LAX-EWR. It's not eligible for CPUs.