Pretty crazy when you think that the cheapest round-trip in Polaris from EWR to FRA is more than three times as much, and usually much more. Yet, all it took to fly Polaris across the Atlantic was a $605.83 economy-class return ticket Berlin – New York – Frankfurt, plus $199 to upgrade from economy to Premium Plus, the new premium economy class United has just rolled out. And that I have no elite status whatsoever on United, or the Star Alliance it’s part of. I took my boarding pass, waltzed aboard the 787-10 Dreamliner waiting outside, and eight hours later I deplaned in Frankfurt fresh as a daisy, well-fed and well-rested after sleeping in a lie-flat seat.Īnd to think that only 24 hours before boarding I was booked in seat 46A way behind the wing, in the back section of coach class. ( The real Polaris, which this was.) It was okay indeed, and I wasn’t going to nitpick anyway I had just been upgraded to United’s long-haul business class, in a lie-flat seat. Kind of moot, really - every seat is an aisle seat in Polaris.
And when I got to the desk, the agent had in her hand exactly what I was hoping she’d give me: a boarding pass for Polaris. Standing in a packed crowd at Newark’s gate C110, I was very happy to hear my name.
Riva, Alberto,” the United Airlines agent called out.
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