Upgraded to the Presidential Suite
Every once in a while one gets lucky – an upgrade to a suite in a hotel. I was staying for one night at the…
Upgrades
United and missing special meals
Most airlines have a good selection of special meals one can order when traveling internationally. United has many such good options. Unfortunately, they appear to…
Tracking a United International BusinessFirst Upgrade
On a recent flight to Tokyo, I used a United Global Premier Upgrade (GPU) to request an upgrade for myself to BusinessFirst. The upgrade did…
CPUs, RPUs, GPUs: all the United PUs (Premier Upgrades)
One the benefits of being an Elite on an airline is the ability to get upgraded to upper class seats on flights. Anyone can use…
Avios: Points? Miles? Doubloons? Dinars?
I posted an article last week about the new that is giving 100,000 Avios points. I interchangeably referred to Avios as points and miles in…
Merger update: Significant United changes
United and Continental have finally merged. As I pointed out in an earlier post, united.com and continental.com, the websites also merged over to the new…
Where are we headed? The Business of Airline Miles
Airlines are going thru tough times and interesting times. (Boy, did I resist starting this post with – It was the best of times, it…
Top 12 Articles for 2011
In honor of the soon to come 2012, here is my list of Top 12 Articles of 2011. (See list of Top 11 Article of…
Planning your Airline Miles for 2012
That gives me some great benefits, such as free unlimited domestic upgrades, Exit row seats when I do not get upgraded, automatic Economy+ for when I don’t get the exit row, free checked bags and most importantly, Star Gold level on Star Alliance, for all my non-United travel. … My Balance: 50,970 – 5,000 = 45,970 Make a list of all other sources that earn you miles and see how many will come in for sure.
Redemptions in coach make sense, at least to me!
There is a huge debate going on in the travel blogosphere about the value of miles. I don’t want to incite it further but am…
