Slick Vik Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Delta did it in January. To keep the highest level you need to spend $15,000 plus the miles. So screw you, you probably not fly.Hello that is for 2014. You're seriously defending United? And I hit million miler status this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Same here. Elite has been long gone. Why are you complaining? My friend is a Gold member with BA there highest level. They get no regional upgrades and global premier upgrades. They do not get comp upgrades. He works for Oracle and said we spoil our members. Next year I can spend $10,000 to keep my 1K status plus the miles to qualify for 2015. I just love the new planes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asubrt Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Delta did it in January. To keep the highest level you need to spend $15,000 plus the miles. So screw you, you probably not fly.Hello that is for 2014. What the heck is your deal with insulting people based on how much/where they fly? Who cares if someone doesn't fly often or flies in economy class? It's not a competition man, no one gives a crap if you solely fly in BusinessFirst on the 787 or whatever you are implying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Please accept my apology. I'm not insulting customers in economy. But it is competition with all the airlines. WN sold Air Tran planes to Delta Airlines, and they are shutting down Comair. Southwest does not have first class. One first class customer is the same amount for 5 in economy. I did not mean to insult our forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Great!Yea it's pretty smooth there's a noticeable difference also the lighting is nice and bigger overhead space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Please accept my apology. I'm not insulting customers in economy. But it is competition with all the airlines. WN sold Air Tran planes to Delta Airlines, and they are shutting down Comair. Southwest does not have first class. One first class customer is the same amount for 5 in economy. I did not mean to insult our forum.AirTran elites are pretty mad that southwest has no first class. What's interesting is that you have to have assigned seating for international flights and that's not southwest's policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I'm guessing the 767's and the few 747's they still have will be sold off as soon as they get new 787's and A350's in the door. Taking a perk away from your good and frequent customers is not something people are going to receive warmly. But it's not like they have the financial health to hand out perks, so if it is the differnce between etherial travel rewards and a plane that works, I guess I'll take the latter. $15,000 is roughly 40 average domestic fares. Unless you are travelling very expensive routes it looks like they only want First Class customers to get the elite treatment. If it's on time and they have a space for my bag in the overhead, that's all I hope for any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 A lot Of Premier members complain because there are over 50 standbys for the upgrade list on my last flight. This gentleman told me he had 120,000 premier qualification miles. All his flights were on Lufthansa Airlines. You also need 4 flight segments with United so he lost his status. He should have enrolled in Miles and More with Lufthansa. He did not read the Premier benefits on united.com. To receive 1K status for 2014-2015 you need the miles and spend $10 thousand. I think they are trying to ween the non premier members. My friend in the UK gold with BA said we are too spoiled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Broadfoot Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Great! Yea it's pretty smooth there's a noticeable difference also the lighting is nice and bigger overhead space How are the windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I'm a regular Boston-Houston flyer, and I've been hoping that United would put one of their new planes on that route. Unfortunately, I'm usually stuck with an older 737-500/800/900 or the good ol' 757-200, lol. Now that JetBlue AND Southwest is now offering nonstop HOU-BOS, I might have to switch over. Unless United's prices drops dramatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I like the 737-800 and 900. I really like the 737-900ER with the new lights. Almost all of the 737-500 are retired as United receives new planes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I like the 737-800 and 900. I really like the 737-900ER with the new lights. Almost all of the 737-500 are retired as United receives new planes. Me too. I took one last week up to Vancouver. Coming down though I took an ancient Airbus, was a huge difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I know I cannot stand the old United's Airbus yuk. The CRJ are also awful, but they will replace with new Embraer 17, 76 seats next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Flyertalk meetup on 7/12 at Goode Co BBQ. Basically people that are gurus on getting travel miles, points, etc. http://first2board.com/giddyforpoints/houston-bbq-meetup/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartmann Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Will you be there? My attendance all depends on whether or not I get stuck at LaGuardia again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Will you be there? My attendance all depends on whether or not I get stuck at LaGuardia again.Will try, last time was stuck at love field Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Reminder this is tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Checked it out was definitely a cool event people were very nice and had a lot of information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chi-Char-Hou-Dal Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 HAIF, I saw on flyer talk a poster commented on a once real deal connector between IAH and HOU any truth to this? How long did it take ect? My buddy got diverted tonight to BPT - Beaumont and started reading threads about the new bus service there. TY L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 You mean like an airplane hop from IAH to HOU? Bet you could find someone to do that for you, but no idea what they might charge. Still, it'd be the fastest way to get from one to another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt16 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I did it once. The flight was cheaper from HOU-IAH-CLE instead of direct IAH-CLE. It took about twenty minutes. This was about fifteen years ago. When I asked why they had the flight I was told something about logging hours but I'm not sure if that was right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToryGattis Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Long ago, this was how Continental competed with Southwest for customers in the southern part of the Houston metro, especially the NASA business. I think they ran a shuttle plane from Ellington to IAH too? Don't remember the one from Hobby, but I'm not surprised. Back when fuel was cheap and they had commuter prop planes that weren't being fully utilized, it was pretty marginal cost to send them as ferries down to the southern airports trying to pull in customers that might otherwise just hop on Southwest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Yes, for some time, Continental had service from HOU to IAH. They also had Ellington-IAH service at one time. At Tory said, it was for the purpose of serving customers from the southern part of the metro/competing with Southwest. I took the IAH-HOU flight once or twice. It was fun! It went around to the west and of course never climbed very high, so it was a cool airplane tour of Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I remember the Ellington-IAH route well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Broadfoot Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I flew on the Continental ATR-42 out of Hobby to IAH several times as well as the Embrear 120 out of EFD to IAH. The terminal at EFD looked like two mobile homes stuck together. Years before this there was a dedicated Continental DC9 that flew from HOU to IAH called Houston Proud I believe. There should be some pictures on the web. While we are here, anyone remember the old Clear Lake metro port? Metro Airlines Twin Otter service to IAH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 The service was actually run by Emerald Airlines for Continental on DC9s as the "Houston Proud Express." In the late 80s, Emerald had as many as 7 daily round trips between HOU and IAH. I believe around 1990, Continental took over the service and began use prop planes (ATRs) and eventually moved the service to Ellington before killing it altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skwatra Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I took the puddle hopper from Ellington to IAH several times, I believe service ended in 2003. Several of us at Boeing/NASA wrote letters to Continental, stating we would pay higher fares (often EFD-IAH-LAX was the same price as IAH-LAX) since parking was free, no POV mileage to pay, time saved etc for NASA. I think the reasoning was cost of operations out of EFD made it not worth it to Continental. I loved it, you show up 20 minutes before your flight, park right there, go through security and you're at IAH 30 minutes later and already at your gate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 The IAH-HOU service was discontinued around 05 if memory serves correctly. It would usually be operated with a CoEx EMB-120 or an ATR-42. Sometimes, there would be a mainline 737on the route since CO had a 737 maintenance base at HOU, and it would help to reposition the 737 by putting it on a HOU-IAH leg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chi-Char-Hou-Dal Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Crazy stuff - thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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