Just hit Gold on Delta but tired of the worthless Sky Pesos and the terrible redemption value. I hear United has a much better program. Worth it to status match or is the United experience that bad?

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You'll trade relatively polite FAs for, more often than not, rude FAs (unless you get a former Continental crew) and worse inflight entertainment if you use it.

Aside from that Star Alliance is definitely better for international travel and redemption over Sky Club.

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I must be in the minority. I'm 1k on UA and never had a rude FA. I find that just saying hello when getting on the plane gets me awesome treatment. Treat them like humans and they will treat you well.

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I fly United every week, flight attendants have always been nice. Their miles are so much better than Delta too

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Depends on where you fly. Hub to hub or to major city is probably not going to get you many upgrades. I'm Gold on United and get upgraded all the time flying out of MSP. YMMV of course, but the international partner airlines are amazing.

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Personally I fly delta weekly for years now (with some alternative airline flights sprinkled in) and don't think the points are all that different from what you earn on united? Am I missing something here? When I look at the planes, staff, and general customer service it's hard to beat delta domestically.... With that said, completely different game when you leave north America.

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United has marginally worse on-time performance compared to Delta. Not enough of a difference for it to matter really IMO

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United mileage redemption is great. Great domestic and international availability. Trade off being you need to fly United. GS member here. For those who say United CS is good try flying Delta / SWA a few times and judge for yourself.

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I live in NYC so close to hubs for both.

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I'm typically flying to smaller cities domestic or international.

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if you fly mostly domestic then delta can still be good for redemption depending on route

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Any issues with the flights/planes?

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