After paying a significant amount of money for business class, United airlines manages to lose my luggage. The luggage did not arrive at my destination when I did. I had to spend the night in a hotel without proper clothes. Tracking whether or not the luggage was found was another ordeal. The so called tracking website had no information. I was lucky enough to find a number for Spanish speaking persons & was able to speak to an actual representative who was able to provide an update. The luggage was found and was on its way. All this was the following day. Trying to locate the luggage took all morning. I didn't receive my luggage until 6pm. It was the worst experience I've had traveling in a while. The worst is that United barely takes responsibility for their mistakes. So far I've only received a $100 coupon for future travel. Not expecting any better.

seats in economy could do better. service was good and the flight was a regular flight. would fly united again but get premium economy. horrible tvs barely worked

We flew United Airlines UA1161, on an AirBus A320 (#4627) from EWR to our home airport, PHX, on the final leg of an almost two week trip to the Inn at Little Washington, and then Blackberry Farm. This flight was on March, 26. We were in First Class, seats 2E & F. We had flown into EWR from TYS, and had a longish layover at EWR. We made our way toward our departure gate, C-81, stopping into the UA Club (construction seemed to have been completed), and also into some of the new (to us) bars/restaurants, which have been added on C Concourse. We have seen many changes to a few of the UA “hub” airports, and they seem to be bringing in new businesses, for their various concourses, at EWR, and IAH.

We arrived at Gate C-81 with plenty of time, and the plane was already there. We boarded in Group 1, and were seated in moments. I even had time to hang up my jacket on the hangers at the bulkhead, behind Row 3, before other passengers arrived.

We departed pretty much on-time, but were warned of some nasty weather, between EWR and PHX. Our pilot did a great job of avoiding that weather, and the seatbelt light was only on a bit, during this 5:30 hr flight.

This A320 had the PDE (Personal Device Entertainment) system, using the UA App. Like on the A319 into EWR that morning, this plane’s system did not work well either. Seems to be an issue with the systems on some AirBus ships? I was also less than impressed by the movie/TV selections. We fly UA almost weekly, and usually find the offerings to have something interesting, but on this long medium-haul flight, it was as though they had removed over half of the normal programs? We have a greater list of programs on our short hops between PHX and SFO (unless we are on an sCO 737-800/900 with DirectTV). I had expected to see an “expanded” list of movies and TV, so this came as a surprise. As we fly UA almost every week, I had to search to find anything new – and then the system kept going out.

We had Chicken for dinner: Chicken Curry, and Chicken Cutlets. Both were actually quite good. Meals on UA have been rather up, and down lately, even in Polaris First Class on International flights, but this meal was one of the better ones.

The wines were the same, as we have encountered on UA Domestic, over the last 5 months – a decent French Chardonnay, and then a Spanish red-blend. OK, but nothing to get excited about. I hope that it’s about time for UA to change the “wine list.”

Even with the weather warning, we had a mostly smooth flight, until we got closer to Arizona. Still, it was not THAT rough. We had poor weather at EWR, but just clouds below us, for most of the flight.

We arrived at PHX almost on-time, and our luggage was onto Carousel 4, in the very first wave. It was nice to be heading home, even though this was a vacation for us. It just happened to have been almost two weeks of vacation, and then a full day of flying home, TYS-EWR-PHX.

Nice flight, nice crew and only a glitchy PDE IFE to complain about.

Boarding was fast and efficient, the seats were not too comfortable, the IFE was a good experience.

The flight attendants are obviously a big gap between asian based airlines ... very sour, no smiles, too busy to care about customer service.

The food was average as well, but hey 3 star airline...

On March 26, we flew United Airlines UA2408, AirBus A319 (#4899) from TYS to EWR, to connect with our flight home to PHX. We had seats 2E & F, in FC. Those are the back row in the forward cabin, with a bulkhead behind, with clothing hangers. When we boarded, there were no hangers on the rack, but one of the flight attendants had moved them to storage, so that they would not rattle around.

We arrived a bit early, as we had done an overnight at the attached Hilton TYS, after a wonderful week at Blackberry Farm. In the TYS terminal, we stopped into Ruby Tuesday, for wine, as we had just had a nice breakfast at our hotel.

Things slowed down, as there were some mechanical issues. The ship had arrived, BUT there were issues, and it took a good 40 mins to rectify those. Going back to the beginning of this trip, we had a tight connection between TYS, and EWR, but moved things, and I was so glad that we did. For a leisurely connection, we needed the extra time. That is just how it is, when connecting to other flights.

We boarded about 45 mins late, but were quickly away, on our way to EWR, and then, our flight home. As there was concern about fixing the problem, we started looking at the UA App, to see other travel options. For us, ORD was out of the question, because of some nasty weather hitting it, so we looked at IAH, DEN and IAD, just in case. We did not need to change flights though, and our Gate Agent kept us updated very well.

This A319 had the UA-standard PDE (Personal Device Entertainment), delivered free of charge via the UA App. Note: one needs to download the latest version of the App, and install it (if not already installed), prior to the doors being shut.

On this flight, there were glitches in the PDE, and it took a very, very long time to connect. I do not know if this was due to the equipment, or the path the plane took? The system was rebooted twice, but I still had issues.

I had a Chardonnay, for the pre-departure beverage, and then another (wife had decaf coffee), when we had the short in-flight service. That also included a passed basket of chips, cookies, etc, but we declined.

The flight was short, at only about 1:50 mins, so even with the late start, we were not too far from being on-time for arrival. We parked at C-109, and headed for the UA Club, prior to our EWR - PHX flight, in a couple of hours. Along the way, we stopped into two new (to us) bars in the C Concourse, on the way to C-81. Seems that UA is reworking many of their concourses. We saw changes a month before at IAH, and now EWR. Nice improvements, by my estimation.