I liked the article. This madness is real.<p>I used to fly 110 times&#x2F;year for work, internationally. I had gold status with several airlines at once. I did this for about 8 years (although the last two years I went down to about 80 flights&#x2F;year).<p>I live in SF and, of course, I have to fly United if I don&#x27;t want to make one connection every time I fly somewhere in the US. And I am a Premier 1k member.<p>I can confirm that the perks are almost useless; that this absurd race loses any meaning when everybody else is racing with you.
How can Premier 1k be good, if I&#x27;m not among the top 1% (the only case in which automatic upgrades and such would actually be useful)?<p>All in all, I hate United. And I&#x27;m not the only one [0].<p>By the way, why does Google NOT provide this link when I search for &quot;Untied&quot;? [1]<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.untied.com&#x2F;main.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.untied.com&#x2F;main.shtml</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=untied&amp;oq=untied&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1192j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=91&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=untied.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=untied&amp;oq=untied&amp;aqs=chrome....</a>