As I mentioned earlier I managed to secure two F awards to Europe on LH for August, which I'm very happy about. While Lufty First isn't the best F product out there, it's one of the only ones where you can consistently secure two first class award seats, and the product is actually pretty darn…
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Familiarity? I certainly don't fly (UA or otherwise) as much as you seem to, but I do look forward to flights on "new" (to me) carriers simply because it's a new experience. Although given need for EQMs, I do fly UA if it's not significantly more expensive or inconvenient.
Call my crazy, but I am looking forward to an upcoming SFO-BZE trip on US Airways (the worst US carrier per FT wisdom) simply because of the new experience (okay, the EQM don't hurt either). CO would have been equally "exciting" (alas no EQM), but I prefer the longer red-eye through CLT over the shorter SFO-IAH hop.
Anyway, on a trip like yours (with LH F) I probably wouldn't have lost much sleep over which way to go -- the one that gets me to my F seat more reliably.
Good point. The thing is that I've flown US quite a bit in both F and Y, so it's not like it's a new experience for me. It's familiarity vs. feeling at home, so that wasn't a real consideration. I was referring more to the fact that I totally know the rules at UA while I only kind of know the rules on US as far as standby, rights during delays, etc, go.
I think you made the right choice for the reasons you described above. Sounds like a great trip!
Totally the right decision. And I echo your comment about BPM... I actually just wrote to 1PVoice to ask them to add BPM to the mainline audio lineup!