As I blogged about last weeks, reading the Facebook walls of airlines can be quite entertaining. Today’s laugh comes at Facebooker Kaira’s expense:
Hey United. I REALLY have a hard time believe that EVERY First Class Seat of my flight mid-Nov is taken when I booked my miles travel nearly ONE YEAR in advance! In fact, I so strongly doubt it that I’m going to ask all the First Class passengers when they booked their seat if I am still in Standard but *paying* with F…irst Class # of miles.
I’m not sure what exactly she’s saying, but it doesn’t sound good…
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August 30th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Mike said,
I hate those seats in Standard. So much more uncomfortable than Regular and Average class seats.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Azi Ronen said,
standby ?
August 30th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Gary said,
She booked her award ticket a year ahead and is angry because she booked a standard award (rather than saver award).
She’s going to ask everyone in first class when they booked their tickets.
Since everyone is on an award, they therefore must have booked their seats earlier than she did. After all, award seats are all released 331 days in advance of travel. So anyone who got a saver award booked at that time, probably minutes before she did.
It’s not possible that United
* sells seats [ok, good laugh line if we're talking INTERNATIONAL first class!]
* sells business class seats and makes first class available for upgrade rather than redemption
* isn’t sure how many seats they’ll sell, so they hold back seats and release them as awards letter when it looks like some will go unsold
Given that all of the above is impossible, Kaira has a reasonable gripe.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Vagabondjim said,
Pay for 1st, fly coach….that’s surely what they mean when they say “The mileage program that wants you to use your miles.”!
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