The new united.com primer: How to find upgrade inventory
Welcome to the new United.com website. For folks used to the old continental.com site things should look pretty similar. For folks surprised to find that...
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Horrible advice on award valuation from the Wall Street Journal
I’m generally a big fan of Scott McCartney’s The Middle Seat column in the Wall Street Journal so I was excited to read his post...
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I may have booked too many mileage runs
Today was a good day for mileage run booking. I got myself a nice <3cpEQM run on mostly United Airlines metal (good for both upgrades...
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A rather worthless hotel status
It would seem that, despite my best efforts, I’ve managed to maintain hotel status through my own actions. I don’t really believe much in the...
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Reading the tea leaves for MileagePlus partner earning rates
With just a week to go before the new MileagePlus program launches for United Airlines and the OnePas program of merger partner Continental officially disappears,...
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First make it work, then make it pretty
As part of my small obsession with travel I’ve come to build a number of tools that help in searching for good deals, upgrades, award...
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United’s Star Alliance upgrades going offline for a few weeks
One interesting nugget from an announcement by a United Airlines official caught my eye today: The ability to redeem a Star Alliance upgrade is going...
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JetBlue, JAL link up
During their most recent earnings conference call JetBlue indicated that they were working on adding 5-7 more interline partners to their portfolio. At that time...
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Cashing in points for equity
There are a wide variety of awards available for point redemption, from travel to gift cards to commercial goods. And apparently now it is time...
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JetBlue introduces bulk ticket “Go Packs” for intra-California travel
JetBlue is continuing their exploration of different marketing ideas for bulk travel this winter, offering up “Go Packs” for customers making frequent trips in the...