The soup nazi holds not a candle to the United upgrade nazi. Three years ago I was upgraded on every segment I flew with United but one. Now, having flown the same amount for around 10 years and doing nothing less than three years ago, I can’t get upgraded on long haul domestic flights to save my life. (Last year’s absolutely awful experience on the way to Europe should have tipped me off.)
The Continental merger may be all hunky dory according to the self-promoting CEO of United Jeff Smisek, but I am thoroughly underwhelmed. I used to be loyal. Now I am only cranky and resigned to crappy flights. United airlines sucks so far this year.
Lets review:
Flights to and from SFO not upgraded to start off 2012 (2 for 2)
Flights to Boston/NH with no upgrade (2 for 2)
Flight to Indy without even the possibility of upgrade, though the flight back was my first upgrade of 2012 on a regional jet (1 for 2)
More SFO flights with reasonably big but poorly configured planes with no upgrade (2 for 2)
Yet another cross country haul (to denver) with no upgrade followed by a regional jet upgrade (1 for 2)
Add it all up? 2 for 10 on upgrades for a million mile flyer with current 1k status. Um, yay? I hate bus travel in the air.