Email Inbox: Using Starwood points for Air travel
One of my readers asked me a question via email about using Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) points for Air travel. As I have discussed in…
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Emirates Skywards – a World Class Program
In my last article, I did a review of Emirates airlines, their aircraft, their meals, their Flight Attendants and Dubai airport. In this article, I…
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Emirates Airlines: A breath of fresh air!
Here are a few highlights that felt I could write home about (or at least write on my blog about): Aircraft: The aircraft were brand spanking new. … I am not being politically incorrect here, but one could not but notice the young folks on the plane and with the youthful enthusiasm to go with it.
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C’mon, just one more text…
I am very attached to my BlackBerry (CrackBerry, works fine for me too). I am one of the people who is admonished by the Flight…
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Look Ma, I have a Million Miles
As I was updating the spreadsheet I use to track my miles over the weekend, I happened to glance down at the bottom row, where…
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My Starbucks Rewards – why bother?
Agreed Starbucks is not an airline or a hotel chain. But they recently re-launched their Rewards program. So, it falls under the scope of my…
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Rear View: United’s rear facing Business seats
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to fly in a United 767-300, International Configuration. It was a short domestic flight, but it was serviced…
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Mobile Boarding Passes – EZPass for airports
As I was checking in for my flight yesterday morning, I decided to use United’s new mobile website. Their new mobile site allows access via…
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Alaska Airlines: The Switzerland of Frequent Flier Programs
Alaska Airlines and its sister airline Horizon Air have been a standout in a world dominated by Airline Alliances. Alaska Airlines has ‘gone it alone’…
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Long, Thin routes: Brought to you by the 787
As my fellow blogger here at BoardingArea.com, Things In the Sky, wrote in his blog post last week, Continental has introduced a very interesting new…
