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I arrived a few hours ago and it was a long trip. The flight was horrible.

I wonder that if it is me getting older and becoming more intolerant of crappy service or that the airlines suck this bad.

I have 150,000 miles on my account which are pretty much useless.

I check in and try to upgrade to first using my miles.

Apparently they are only taking paid upgrades – these 500 mile things would cost about $300 each way to upgrade me and the fact that I am only Premier, I am at the bottom of the list.

Since I just got status back I couldn’t even get an exit row.

I told the ticket guy that it didn’t show up on my seating arrangements and he said you have to be at a certain level.

Since when you redeem miles to get free trips they don’t count toward status, this whole mile thing is worthless.

As soon as I can I am selling my miles or using them for an insane trip so I can look at using another airline.

I am fed up with United.

I am signing up for an AMEX that has Starwood points. At least I have a chance to earn free room nights which is worth it to me since status doesn’t mean that much but paying $300 a night for a bed and shower does.

I haven’t mentioned a thing about Apple and Macworld, but I needed to vent.

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Written by Steven Fisher on January 9, 2006

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