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UA unveils new United Club design
According to this article, UA is remodeling all United Clubs with a new design: Chicago Business Journals article on UA The first club will open at ORD T2 next week, with all clubs to be upgraded over...
View ArticleGiven the choice, fly the 787/777/747 for Asia Travel?
Which of the follwing aircraft would you fly going from the East Coast USA to SE Asia....Would it be the 787 or 777 or 747? If Flying in E+ which of the above on that very long route is best? Which of...
View ArticleWhat are Top 3 Options to accumulate Miles on UA
Okay so I have a goal of taking our family of 5 on free flights to Italy in 2014. I am guessing I will need 375K miles for all of us.... I am Platinum now and will likely fly 75K next year... I have...
View ArticleAccommodating color-blindness and other smaller issues
I flew the 787 for the first time today, EWR-IAH (and shortly to SFO). Loved the plane -- very comfortable, quiet, good IFE -- but had an issue that has me thinking a bit more about my red-green...
View ArticleCheap F fares to Asia (expire 12/17)
Not sure what is leading to this, but some very good prices (relatively speaking) on F fares to Asia bookable on United.com right now. According to the fare rules, these fares must be booked and...
View ArticleAward ticket on partner - luggage allowance confusion?
I booked an award ticket for a family member for HKG - YYZ (direct) and another HKG-NRT-YYZ (no direct flight from Hong Kong to Toronto for those dates)... The carrier for the first is Air Canada (AC)....
View ArticleWil Unused Reward Flight on Partner Be Refunded Post-Departure?
I booked two reward tickets on QR last May from my MP account, for myself and a friend. Same PNR. Friend can no longer go but I still want to go since rumor is QR itineraries can longer be modified and...
View ArticleMileagePlus Mile Up 25% Bonus
What does this mean in statement? Recently i got explorer card. Does that have any connection?
View ArticleEverything that's good and bad about United Rolled into One Trip
My recent trip sums up all that's wrong and right about United. Trip: SFO to Brussels - Outbound SFO->EWR (414), EWR->LHR (28), LHR-BRU (on Air Brussels) Inbound SFO->ORD, ORD->SFO BAD:...
View ArticleORD-HKG on a pmUA 777?
Not sure I believe this one...ExpertFlyer shows UA 895/6 operating with a 3-class 777 in May. Do the pmUA 777s really have that range (7793 mi)? I thought they had less range than the pmCO 777s, which...
View ArticleUA Lacking in Holiday Greeting
So I realize this is small potatoes so to speak, but remember when MP members used to get really great holiday e-cards that really provided a personal touch like these:...
View ArticleUA Flown Too High, Too Fast?
"After being frozen in a trading range between $19 and $21 for several months, mega-airline United Continental (UAL) has recently rallied above $23/share, with most of those gains occurring in the past...
View ArticleIs this a new 757-300 config? No seatmap on SeatGuru for this bird
My buddy arrived LAX last night and told me there was an equipment swap on the IAH-LAX segment. 39 BF style seats. 7 rows 2-1-2 and 8th row 2-0-2 Doesn't look like anything I can find on seatguru.....
View ArticleWhat constitutes a codeshare flight.
Following on from discussions in the fall/winter PQM bonus discussion, it seems that UAX flights were intended to be excluded from the offer as codeshare flights. So the question is, if an airline is...
View ArticleBest Biz Class Seats - 767-300 or 767-400ER
Which model has the most comfortable international business class seats?
View ArticlePhantom XN availability?
Hi - been mostly a lurker last few years but appreciate all that the FTers do to publish useful info. I am UA Plat, looking at R/T flights ORD-SAV in March and saver availability. Have read many...
View ArticleFlight #145 IAD-HNL diverted twice in two days? Why?
Hi all. I noticed today that flight 145 from IAD-HNL is being diverted to IAH. It was up at FL320, dropped down to FL240, then FL200, and it just keeps getting lower. It's around 10000 feet now. Anyone...
View Article5 segment luggage tag
I have searched the forum but I couldn't find an answer. I tried today to check in in MTJ and drop off my luggage for MTJ-DEN-IAD-FRA-VIE-GRZ. The Checkin Agent was not able to issue a luggage tag and...
View ArticleSuccessfully received EU261 compensation
Recently, my United-operated flight from LHR->IAD was cancelled, and United reaccomodated me on a flight leaving about 3 hours earlier than the original flight. Surprisingly, even though I'm a US...
View ArticleCan you use miles to upgrade just the domestic portion of an international...
It seems like it would be possible to upgrade a domestic transcon for 20K that is attached to an international connection, but ual.com only gives the option to upgrade the entire one-way which of...
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