The Shenanigans Involved for Flying Blue Award Tickets
I had a ridiculously frustrating 3 days at the beginning of this week trying to ticket ATL-HAM (s/o) HAM-VCE (o/j) NAP-ATL. An aggressive undertaking I know for Flying Blue, but geez louise this was as...
View ArticleAmazon Smile Donation Program
Taken from http://www.therewardboss.com/2014/06...es-to-charity/ Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible Amazon Smile purchase to a charity of your choice. Bookmark this link; http://smile.amazon.com...
View ArticleCheapest Public Transport
I recently took a bus in Beijing using my smartcard and it was only .4 RMB (6.5 cents US) I was curious what other peoples cheapest public transport ride was and if anyone beat that? Cheers Howie
View ArticleDiscounted award fares
Out of interested has anybody booked one of these with a companion recently? I'm just wondering what booking class they are in (my understanding is it used to be R) to get an idea of availability. I'm...
View ArticleUA: RIC-EWR-SEA $302 5804 PQM 5.2 cpm
Not sure if this is a good MR deal, but usually it's hard to find some deals from RIC. RIC-EWR-SEA-EWR-RIC, $302, 5804 PQM (including minimum 500-mile), 5.2 cpm. Sampling dates: Tuesdays in September...
View Article40 minutes connect time at GVA?
Looking at an SFO-PMI itinerary. The EWR-GVA leg on UA956 lands at 7:45 AM. The GVA-PMI leg on LX2144 takes off at 8:25 AM. Seems impossible so why would united.com even display this routing? Wouldn't...
View ArticleIND-LAX on Saturdays - What happened to nonstop?
After August 16, no nonstop flights IND-LAX or LAX-IND (flight 1319) appear through the end of October. I didn't look beyond October, as I want September and October flights. Does anyone know why AA...
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// LHR - SIN // 10 days in Asia-lite //
(Posting this report from October, apologies for the slight lateness.) It was 3:30pm on Thursday the 10th of October - I'd just finished a three-hour law exam and my hands were ready to drop off from...
View ArticleYahoo Finance: Important details of the United and Continental merger
Article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/import...214704162.html Quote: The merger process started in May 2010 and took more than one and a half years to get an operating certificate. Even after four...
View ArticleAustin TX - Bergstrom -- always a problem!
I fly into Austin TX 4-5 times a year, and more often than not, have problems with Hertz Gold service. Problems range from fairly innocuous failure to post points to my airline account to more...
View Article757-200 experts please help!
Flying from ATL-JFK and then across the pond JFK-CPH. I'm in EC on both legs, but have questions... 1). For the ATL-JFK leg, it shows this leg is the 757 version that has EC start at row 19 (2 seats)...
View ArticleRequest upgrade option gone from homepage
The "Request Upgrade" option recently vanished from the Book a Trip tab on the Delta homepage. If I search and book flights from here, upgrade requests are not submitted and the Medallion desk tells me...
View ArticleHampton Inn, Salina, Kansas -- any reports?
Anyone stayed there lately? Typical Hampton?
View Articlegetting rewards for reporting bonus errors
I MS my local grocery store chain by getting lots of $20-$500 visa gift cards there. They have always been real cool to me, no limits, very friendly, you get my drift. I did notice when I scanned my...
View ArticleAA 64 - 3 aircraft changes, 5 hr delay
On AA 64 (JFK-ZRH) tonight and was supposed to leave at 6 PM. We were asked to de-plane and 3 planes have been changed so far. Terrible irrops handling. No agents available for more than an hour on new...
View ArticleWhy no Starwood Tokyo
Is Starwood ever going to start anything new in Tokyo.? They currently have a grand total of two properties in the city - and these have been outdated for a while. It seems as though every other major...
View ArticleATL skyclub access
If I'm coming off a flight from FCO and connecting to Denver in Business Elite, can I use the skyclub to shower? I don't have any skyteam status and I wasn't sure if I could access the club going from...
View Article2 employees charged with stealing $22 million from Delta
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/lo...ects/11471091/ Wonder how much will be recovered. Delta may have to raise fares to make up the deficit...;)
View ArticleP fares on code share earn miles?
Looking at a SFO-VIE-PRG-SFO itinerary, with the outbound TATL segment being on Austrian metal but with a UA codeshare flight number. P fares on United earn miles but P fares on Austrian do not. So...
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Some Warbirds and Others--Mostly from the Hollister Air Show
Not posting the URL for the purpose of selling. This is, however, the only place I have these images hosted. Here's a Spartan Executive at the Hollister Airshow. And here's a P51 Mustang: Another P51...
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