I wish I had friends who I could trust to back me by breathing all over my enemies.

A few flights back a dude who took the aisle to my window put his stuff all over the middle seat. He didn't have a companion, he was tryna block out an empty. It was the last seat and taken by a lady who almost missed the flight...with her little dog! I went from thinking the dude was a prick, to rooting for him because I would also benefit, to hoping he hated dogs, to liking him because he was very kind to the woman and her dog when she sat down and for the whole flight.

Quite the emotional roller coaster I tell you.

I do wish that with all the emphasis swa puts on seating order, lining up, paying for position upgrades, statuses and all they would take a firmer stand on not letting people save seats. It rarely affects me much except making me hate a stranger for a few seconds, but general principle.

https://thepointsguy.com/2016/04/top...obal-services/

Cliffnotes: a bunch of dick-sucking, you basically are exempt from a lot of nitpicky rules and most importantly you'll always be at the top of the pile for rebooking if you have irrops.

That list includes a lot of things available for lower statuses. My wife, gets a lot of the same things for being 1K. Although the plane to plane transfer by MB on the tarmac would be sweet for her international connections.

Yeah you get most of that for 1k, except GS just gets more of it at higher priority. They can probably get an invite to the new secret restaurant at EWR a lot easier too.

Did,

Based on a sample size of one friend, the main difference between that and 1k is that they just make **** happen for GS customers.

Flight cancelled and nothing available? Somehow they find a flight for the GS customer. No space in first? Somehow they make it happen for the GS customer.

I was 1k for a few years in SF and it’s very good in general, but also pretty lol on routes like SF-NYC on sun/mon/thurs/fri where half the plane is 1k.

I've never done it but it might be if you complained to the flight attendant they would let you have the seat.

One thing I hated, and hated myself almost as much for giving in, is when a parent asked me to give up my hard fought aisle seat for their kid. This was a 15 year old kid, not some 5 year old, and the mother across the aisle in the next row up never went 60 seconds without turning around and talking to this kid. You don't get special privilege just because you procreated.

I've yet to really want the seat at all let alone enough to bother. I just get irritated with people who break social norms and profit because they are bold enough to be a little rude.

It seems that seat saving IS the norm, though.

I fly back out to Vegas tomorrow at 6:15pm. I have an alarm set for 6:12 so I can madly refresh the SW check in page. Something tells me that due to the price I paid for the ticket, that I'll probably be C group again.

Flights out of Baltimore & DC to Vegas are always a nightmare on the cheaper airlines like Spirit & Frontier. More families with small children usually, much smaller seats, and less legroom.

I'll be sure to update the thread once I check in.

El D,

She's actually in a middle ground between regular 1K and Global Services because she's also a Million Mile flyer. So she gets some of that GS treatment - it's in the documentation that if she really needs a seat they'll boot someone else off the plane - just not anywhere near the same degree. This is true. Most of her domestic travel is either DC>LA or DC>Seattle. For Sunday late afternoon flights or the first two Monday morning she'll check in and be something like 47th on the upgrade list. Other flights its about a 75% hit rate.

Why not pay $15 for auto-pre-checkin?

Does united actually have benefits for million milers? Delta puts a little emblem on your skymiles card and you can get a free tumi rollaboard and that's basically it. There's no practical difference between a "regular" diamond and a 4 million miler diamond at the airport as far as anyone can tell.

BTW WTF is GTO

IDK, TBH.

Yes. One of the good ones is that she gets to have a "Officially Designated Companion Flyer" - she chose me. This means my status is the same as hers even when I'm flying solo and I fly nowhere near what she does.

Also, they very much know how valuable a person is within each status level - even the flight attendants know. To think all 1Ks are equal is naive. There's always a hierarchy.

My company booked the flight last minute for a pretty meaningless trip. I refuse to shell the extra if they won't. I never fly Southwest as all of my personal rewards are with American.

Like I mentioned before, I've never been on a flight to or from Vegas that wasn't full, so when it comes to Southwest flights, I would much rather board a bit later and get to select a row that seems "safe", than to pick my seat and have an ogre or two pile in next to me since I'm rather average size, 5'10 190.

My go-to move for picking a seat on SW has always been, pick an average to smaller sized American millennial without kids. They won't force an awkward conversation about Vegas on you like the baby boomers will, and in my experience it's usually a peaceful flight.

P.S. if you take your shoes off on a plane, you're scum. IJS.

That's pretty interesting. I don't think delta agents at the airport can see like how many miles you've flown this year or anything like that. Flight attendants definitely can't, I've seen their little tablet devices and the seat map on there only indicates status levels (it does have an emblem for million millers but IIRC doesn't differentiate between like 4 million and 1 million) and definitely won't differentiate between a 250k diamond and a guy who just barely made diamond last year and hasn't flown any this year.

Phone agents definitely can get that info but from what I understand they have to dig a bit, it's not displayed on their default screen when they pull up a customer.

In any case, yes, definitely there are "soft" benefits and some pax will get more leeway than others but there's no official benefits to being a million+ miler or flying 250k miles etc.

Doesn't matter what you pay for the flight (unless you pay the $15 extra auto check in). If you check in on time you won't be a C. If you get a C you are doing something wrong.

Nobody really knows what the actual benefits of Delta's GS-equivalent program (Delta 360) are, either.

https://thepointsguy.com/2016/06/top-perks-delta-360/

All of these are basically just regular medallion perks. Diamonds and sometimes even platinums get the porsche rides (it just depends on how tight your connection is and how many other people are in need of transfers). I haven't yet gotten a ride even when I've asked on twitter because of a tight connection.

See my post from 2-3 days ago. I got a C38 assignment, 25 minutes after it opened. I'll be much faster on the trigger this time around. I want that row 9 sweet spot.

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Maybe the Turkey helps her detect food sources.

I tend to always get an aisle seat/empty middle somehow. This thread is making me realize its probably just cause I'm fat. But, whatever, empty middle, bitches.

25 minutes for sure there is a good chance you'll get a C. Five minutes even good chance you get a C.

But if you do it right at 24 hours before damn near impossible.

Why Are People Spending Thousands on Bogus Allergy Alert Dogs?


http://www.dogster.com/lifestyle/peanut-sniffing-dogs

Another United Million Mile benefit is it gives you status for life. For 1 mill it's only Gold, but at 2 mill you're up to Platinum. At 3 mill it's 1K for life. She should hit 2 mill this year so there's a chance she'll get to 3 mill before she retires. 4 mill and Global Services for life is only a dream.

Active military allows you to board between A and B. You can buy military fatigues at many stores. You will get asked for military ID too perhaps. It is probably a crime to have a counterfeit military ID. Plus, there is the risk that another member of the same military branch can be there and “out” you. That approach is high-risk.

So, instead you work as a military analyst for IDCC - International Defense Contractor Consulting. You are not permitted to discuss exactly what you do because it is classified but you do let them know you work in finance and budgets. Just enough to let them know that you are probably real.

You get a badge on the Internet that says IDCC with the your ID number 370HSSV. Critical part of the operation.

The most important task though is walking up like you own the gap between A and B that is reserved for military.