In addition to the above, there's:
1) new food (especially, imho, complete loss of special meals options) and blankets suck
2) upgrades appear not to be clearing in correct order per stated policy
3) sometimes seat assignments randomly change and attempts to change them don't stick (even when agents do it)
4) downgrading of value of million miler benefits, especially for 1MM
5) after an upgrade clears, some people have found they're suddenly on the standby list again (and may or may not clear); it's not obvious if this is always due to equipment changes
6) snarky and/or unhappy and/or untrained GAs and FAs
7) the inability to change flights from within the United Club when that was the best way to do it before in many cases (I suspect this was more of a timing of training issue than anything else)
8) wrong boarding group (the biggest classes of these seem to have been fixed, though)
9) delays for elite membership and club card mailings that have affected int'l ability to use various lounges
10) mystery p.s. flight equipment downgrades
11)
the begging nun (which sounds like a regular plane was downgraded to p.s. capacity, at least on the SFO-JFK flight mentioned in that thread)
I've flown seven segments this year; two post-merger. So far, everything's been fine for me. I have another six coming up over the next 10 days.
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