After a lovely week in Boston with two pals, arrived at Boston Logan to be asked would I mind volunteering to be ....
ME: Offloaded, put up in a hotel, and given a bucket load of miles? Yes!
THEM: No... you'll be sitting in Premium Economy and we'll give you 100K miles OR a free G-Class UC return ticket to anywhere on our network.
ME: Urgh, no thanks. I want to fly in Upper.
I get to the lounge and I am thinking and thinking. 100k miles is OK but a free G class return to anywhere is much much better, given how high UC mileage redemptions can be.
So I go to the lovely Boston lounge staff and advise that not only am I volunteering to be considered, put me to the top of the queue.
I am travelling with two friends, and I used some miles to help upgrade them on our flights to UC.
One of them, get this, volunteers to sit in the PE seat for me.
I simply won't hear of this. But he insists.
So, I am sitting in UC, with a voucher for a free UC flight, while my friend, grateful that I used my miles to upgrade him on the outbound, is enjoying PE, which he has also never used before.
To top it all, the flight was just over five hours because the wind was in our favour, so my pal had a great flight but wasn't at all put out as it was so short. Checked on him a few times and he was fast asleep!
Result, or what?
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ME: Offloaded, put up in a hotel, and given a bucket load of miles? Yes!
THEM: No... you'll be sitting in Premium Economy and we'll give you 100K miles OR a free G-Class UC return ticket to anywhere on our network.
ME: Urgh, no thanks. I want to fly in Upper.
I get to the lounge and I am thinking and thinking. 100k miles is OK but a free G class return to anywhere is much much better, given how high UC mileage redemptions can be.
So I go to the lovely Boston lounge staff and advise that not only am I volunteering to be considered, put me to the top of the queue.
I am travelling with two friends, and I used some miles to help upgrade them on our flights to UC.
One of them, get this, volunteers to sit in the PE seat for me.
I simply won't hear of this. But he insists.
So, I am sitting in UC, with a voucher for a free UC flight, while my friend, grateful that I used my miles to upgrade him on the outbound, is enjoying PE, which he has also never used before.
To top it all, the flight was just over five hours because the wind was in our favour, so my pal had a great flight but wasn't at all put out as it was so short. Checked on him a few times and he was fast asleep!
Result, or what?
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