Yes. Long-time UA FT'ers: I forgot to include my typical "anticipated reply to my reply" in my original post. I must be slipping.

Speaking of, I thought *everyone* here was a 1K whose SWUs always cleared and only set foot in Y during those 1K/SWU/Quintuple EQM/SQ-award earning Mileage Runs that they paid $400 for via LAN.com or PL? :p

Good point about the voucher, but I'll avoid from making the too-obvious UA IT-related joke about the ability for that information to be successfully passed down the food chain. Bad pun intended.

Of course, I'll make the "UA should offer free meals to everyone in E+ because they're full fare or status customers! But what about those who just ended up in E+ (for free / no status) because E- was already full?" suggestion.

UA is reducing capacity. However, UA is not the only player in the industry and overall, domestic air capacity seems to increase on a year over year basis.


All of us will be routing through EWR soon enough. That includes the Boeing 777s that used to have the words United Airlines painted on them as well. :p

Attention Whole Foods: You would make a killing by opening branded airport kiosks / food stands that sold boxed meals. People love that place.

Other airlines manage to produce more than acceptable catering within the same constraints. And prices certainly won't be reducing as a consequence of these changes. So, once again, we're being asked to pay the same or more to get less.

Truly an appalling example of nickeling and diming at its finest.

I *think* you may be right, but it seems the person who wrote the memo was either trying to be cryptic or was just an idiot so who knows. That said IF they are selling Y/F on 3 class planes and elites get to just choose C seats like they were E+ (or I guess E++++) then we could upgrade to 3-cabin F that wouldn't be too bad. They had best get rid of all the C/D/Z buckets on the continuing intl flight numbers though so intl-C fares end up in F, could you imagine paying 20K+ for say SYD-LAX-IAD only to find out that from LAX-IAD you have to pay for a meal.

The rest of this is a joke.

Whats weird is that I checked out one of the United F/A BB's, which I still belong to and there's not even a peep about this...which is highly unusual. Normally something like this would have people flaming the company, but nothing...could it, in fact, be a hoax?

That's it. AAmerican here I come.

Its not as much the meal - let's be frank, they suck - as what this change indicates about the attitude of UA.

It's really an insult to their customers' intelligence.

They might as well say "For your convenience." It's just as insulting but at least it has that "personal edge".

Et tu, Airliners.net! :p

Sure, the C seat is better than the E+ seat. But on a 5 hour transcon, I'd argue that there is little time for the difference to really matter. Even more so on the 3-4 hour 3 class. I can still work in the E+ seat, and the 4 hours of sleep I get on the LAX-IAD redeye is not substantially improved by the C seat.

The food benefit is entirely a convenience, one that I'm willing to pay slightly for (e.g. in upgrades or miles, which used this way have some small value). I really like not having to eat in the airport during a layover following a transcon. And greasy fast food kind of makes me sick. To me the BOB is little different that bringing a granola bar and an apple from home, and I don't need to upgrade for that privilege.

I'm not saying that E+ is equivalent to C, just that the differences are now very slight for flights less than ~6 hours.

Ooooooh. Maybe it is, actually. Good idea.

Interesting if this is supposed to be introduced in two weeks yet no FAs know about it.

FAs out there - have you heard about this?

My original thought as I could this typo:

It's not a hoax. My p.s. breakfast flights went from "Breakfast, Snack" to "Breakfast" in My Itineraries.

The e-mail confirmations from just last week say "Breakfast, Snack."

As much as it pains me to say it, I won't fly UA internationally again. UA was always at the top of my list when I had to take a US airline abroad. From now on I think I'll stick to CO or NW. I'm sure Continental is salivating at this idiocy.

Are you sure that other US based airlines are not salivating at the potential cost savings and revenue stream if they match?

You know, that's funny, because I recently noticed a related change -- Business1 flights, instead of saying Dinner/Lunch/Breakfast now just say "Snack." I assumed this was regular "My Itineraries" nonsense, but maybe this portends something else as well... :(

[QUOTE=CO FF;10225542 ... So, even with these cuts, PS C still equals AA J ... [/QUOTE]

I think you're missing the point.
The whole idea behind PS was to raise above domestic competitors and bring international standards on board (seats, entertainment, catering) and on the ground (lounges).