United Airlines

I have been saving up my airline miles for the last two years to use on a trip for my husband and I. I thought I had plenty of miles to get us two tickets. We weren't even going across country, staying on the same coast. They took 35k miles + $86 for just one ticket. And the only options in seats you get are all the way in the back, unless you want to pay extra to "upgrade" on an old uncomfortable aircraft. And don't forget I pay a $95 annual fee! What's the point of being a club member again? United Airlines program is less than satisfactory. It's misleading and I feel like I got scammed. The worst program I've ever used. I think I'll go back to Alaska Airlines.

I print my boarding passes to find out they changed my flight departure with a 30 min connecting time from a 50min initially! No notice, nothing - just changed it. I spent then another hour on the phone to switch it to a different time only to be told "oh 30mins is a decent time to catch it". Had to tell her while booking the flight it said the flight was overbooked. By the time I run to the connecting flight I will have no seats. Finally I convince her to switch it. I had initially booked a window seat. Told her specifically to book the window seat again. She agrees, and I get the email only to see its the middle seat. I asked again is this the window seat and she said yes. Went online to double check it, she did give me the middle seat. Then tells me there are no seat available! This is not the first time. This is the final straw!

Horrible choice for passengers with disabilities. I called to ask what their procedures were for requesting a pre-board, and after 45 minutes of being routed from place to place and being asked to provide unrelated information, I was told that I would need to prove my condition before my question could be answered. I spent nearly $600 to change my flight to another airline and will not fly United again.

Singapore to Washington Dulles via Tokyo. United Airlines has a weird system that messes up upgrade request. I was waitlisted for the business upgrade but at the time of check in, I was told that I was not even on the list. No one could explain as to how my name disappeared from the list. This has happened to me the third time. Very frustrating, especially when you book in advance to be on top of the wait list. At the time of check in again I was manually included in the list which put me as the last one on the list. Crazy. I am very disappointed with United.

Absolutely horrible service. My original booking was changed by United Airlines after I had paid - they changed the times. I called to see if I could get on an earlier flight, as I needed to be there before a certain time window. The woman on the phone was pleasant and polite but she kept putting me on hold and the whole process took over 1.5 hours. After confirming flight numbers and times, she sent me an email confirmation. I reviewed it after we had hung up and she scheduled the wrong day. I immediately called back and now they can't fix it back to the original or to the correct day without charging me. Are you kidding me. I do not recommend United Airlines at all.

I had to be in Cincinnati for a business meeting g at 5.00. I left Portland, Oregon at 6.00am. Arrived in Houston at 11:45. The flight from Houston was delayed by two hours. I missed my meeting. No one at United Airlines knew what was going on, the agents were rude, numerous gate changes. I will never fly United again if I can help it but these airline monopolies are a real problem. United has really gone downhill.

We flew United for our honeymoon on the flight 1693 to Hawaii through LAX. We booked our seats way in advance, but when we checked in our boarding passes had completely different seats far away from each other. We were very upset. We asked for help on of the flight attendants. She immedietly looked at the seating chart and assured us she would fix that. Within 6-10 min we were sitting together. She vas very nice and all the staff were friendly, we got free snacks and a bottle of wine. We had a great start of our honeymoon thanks to them!

I applaud United Airlines for attempting to only allow passengers with 2 pieces of carry-ons. However the customer service in regards to only allowing 2 pieces of carry-ons needs to be improved. Flight out of Seattle to Cincinnati via Houston had rude customer service at the boarding gate. If everyone is allowed 2 pieces of luggage to carry on, then the service on the plane also needs to follow and hold the passengers accountable, ie. one piece of luggage on top while the second piece must go underneath the seat. Just because I do not pay the extra to fly first class, does not mean my luggage is less important. I'm a frequent flyer with United (140k in miles), or at least I was until this past weekend, so you would think that making sure each and every customer would be valued by United. Flying back from Cincinnati to Seattle, via D.C. was just atrocious. Arrived in Cincinnati, only to find my flight was delayed 30 mins due to a late inbound flight - but why did it take United 20 mins before I was to board my plane to email me that information? Then another 20 mins later, received an email that the flight was delayed another 30 mins and the gate changed (luckily just the gate over). My connecting flight out of D.C. to Seattle would surely be missed as I would still be in the air while my flight to my final destination would be taking off. Many of us were in similar predicaments. We were speaking with the woman at the boarding gate, and she advised us our flight was out of the original gate (A11). Then when we all showed her our email from United stating our gate was out of A13, so needed to radio down to ask. One person came back on the radio that the flight to D.C. was out of A11, while another person responded with out of A13. When the gate was determined, the woman at the boarding gate now needed to find if the flight to D.C. was first or if the flight to Houston was next as boarding was soon going to happen. Needless to say, my flight was messed up and I ended up staying in Cincinnati for another night. The next day (Oct. 12), I attempted to fly out of Cincinnati to Seattle via Houston. As soon as I arrived at the airport, I yet again received an email from United that my flight was delayed. Surely this wasn't all going to happen again. I was flying out of the same gate, so perhaps? With that flight being late, we were not sure if I would make the connecting flight to Seattle out of Houston. My flight from Cincinnati to Houston was a little over 2 hours and all passengers were able to get a full can of soda. Luckily, passengers were nice and allowed people at the back of the plane to get off in order to maybe make their connection. Rushed to make the connection and the women at the gate were extremely rude. We told one that others were coming from the late flight out of Cincinnati and her response was "We cannot hold the gate for anyone. You can stay and wait and see if the rest of you party makes it though, but we cannot hold the gate for anyone.". The second woman (taking the boarding tickets) was just as rude. Again the whole you can only have 2 pieces of luggage is fine, but when you are following the rules, having to check your bag at the gate is absurd when United does not actually enforce the "the second bag must go under the seat.". Something needs to be changed on United's end to continue having paying, satisfied customers.

After years of collecting credit card points we decided to use them to fly first class from Toronto to Hawaii and back. We had to go with what was provided. The first flight from Toronto to Los Angeles was in first class on Air Canada. We had a "pod" type seat which reclined flat. We were provided with comfortable pillows and a comforter. We had our own individual screen and could watch movies, tv, etc. The food was great and service equally as good. It was everything we had imagined first class would be. We had the same first class treatment from Los Angeles back to Toronto. The polar opposite is true of our United Airlines portion from Los Angeles to Hawaii. The plane is old and first class only means wider seats that recline slightly more than economy with more leg room but extremely uncomfortable to try and sleep in. Besides the food, the only extra we got was a paper thin blanket - no pillows, no screens, no music, nothing. You have to download the app if you want to watch something or listen to music. What if you don't have a smart phone or don't want to watch a movie on it? The flight to Hawaii was bad enough but unfortunately we were stuck with United Airlines on the overnight flight from Hawaii back to Los Angeles and hardly slept a wink. Ironically before we left home, I decided to leave my neck pillow at home. Why bring it - we were flying first class. Big mistake. United's definition of "first class" is no class. I regret wasting the points I took so long to collect on the United Airlines flights. I will never knowingly fly United again. Giving this a 2 only because the flight attendants were friendly and I felt sorry for them having to work for this airline.

Twice in the last six months I have purchased United Airlines first class tickets only to arrive at the airport and find out we were in coach for the return trip. The first time we paid $600 in baggage fees because we had packed all of our bags to 70 pounds instead of 50. We were given the option of flying another day first class and not having to pay the baggage fees but there was no compromise on the baggage the day planned to fly. The same thing happened again today and I was forced to change my flight to fly first class in again not pay overage fees on my baggage. This really looks like a scam to me.