[unclebilly]

I flew 4 flights with united this week.

Here is my experience:

At the automated check in terminal, one of the first questions, is "Are you willing to change your flight to a later flight?" I think this is new.

The flight attendants were much more friendly than I had ever experienced on United (with the exception of one).

On the first leg of my return trip yesterday, the plane left the terminal 31 minutes behind schedule. I asked the flight attendant, why we were leaving late (wanted to get it direct from her as opposed to the customer service folks because I knew my connection in SFO was now going to be really tight. She told me that SFO traffic control delayed the departure from Bakersfield and that sometimes the delay is over an hour. She also told me that there was no way I would miss my connection and was a bit of a ***** about it.

At SFO, it took them forever to get my bag checked luggage (airport, not united) and if I didn't run to the next gate, I would have missed my connection. Literally I got there with maybe 30 seconds to spare.

On the plane, the flight attendants were awesome and comp'd me a beer (I didn't have time to get anything to eat at SFO and was absolutely starved).

Would I fly United again? Yup based on this past week's experience they were fine. They still wouldnt be my first choice.

I will post some interesting stuff from their Hemisphere magazine in the other thread later.