As a number of United fliers are aware, March 3nd marks the day when United and Continental move to a single Passenger Service System or PSS for short. Over the last few months, there has been a lot of animosity, particularly from the legacy United fliers about how awful this will be. But will it really be that awful or is this the general over sensationalism that the legacy UA fliers are so keen on projecting?
Let's start with a bit of a background. Apollo ...
I don't typically blog about my boring business travel. Every now and then there's something surprising like an emotional support dog or WiFi on a United filght, but today I just felt that not only was the service really great on the United (Continental) flight from Phoenix to Houston, but the food was also great as well. Combine that with the fact that the Continental 737-900 is my favorite domestic plane in the post-merger fleet. That makes for a bloggable flight.
It's been a long ...
I must say I did not think I would be posting a positive thing about this situation but I’m happy that it worked out. Back in December I booked a r/t flight from EWR-SEA on Continental.com, I booked at a contract Y fare, and got the instant Platinum upgrade on all the flights. EWR-IAH-SEA and SEA-EWR
Today I got an email from Continental that rebooked me on a new flight from IAH-SEA that was 6 hours later. I checked online and there was still a flight at 0930 but with a new ...
Ouch! I haven't had this many consecutive upgrade-less flights since before I was a 1K with United four or five years ago.
Tuesday, Jan 31 - UA 252 SFO-DEN, A320
No Upgrade
Thursday, Feb 2 - UA 1663 (CO Operated) DEN-IAH, 737-800
No Upgrade
Thursday, Feb 2 - UA 1171 (CO Operated) IAH-DCA, 737-700
No Upgrade
Friday, Feb 3 - UA 915 IAD-SFO, ...
Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines award seats are now bookable on continental.com, meaning that 26/27 Star Alliance carriers can now be booked quickly and easily online. Only Ethiopian Airlines, which joined Star Alliance last December, is yet to be added.
Up until now, the use of the Air Canada/Aeroplan or ANA award search ...
So far, the term "disappointing" has been pretty prevalent with the merger between United & Continental. From changing the benefits for everybody from Premier members to Million Mile Fliers, it has been expected that there would be more cuts to the COmbined carrier.
Several months ago, I redeemed miles for a one-way ticket on Virgin Atlantic, in Upper Class, from London-Heathrow to Vancouver. I was delighted to be able to use some of my Continental miles, as VS had never been a ...
