I previously reviewed Air Astana’s long-haul men’s business class amenity kit, and I’ll have a full review of the female version in an upcoming post. In the meantime, here’s a look at the airline’s unisex offering provided to business class passengers on short-haul flights for this installment of Amenity Kit Reviews. The Kazakhstan-based airline operates…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for October 2013.
Flyer Unfriendly: United Pulls Upgrade, Elite Award Availability From ExpertFlyer
If you’re an ExpertFlyer subscriber and haven’t already received an email from them this morning, brace for unwelcome news if you use the service for certain United Airlines searches. United has decided to deny ExpertFlyer access to upgrade and elite award inventory effective November 1. This will remove the ability to search and create alerts…
Reader Question: Any Issues, Concerns Doing International Mileage Runs?
Blog reader Richard sent in the following question: … I would love to get UAL premier gold again this year but I think it will take an international mileage run (note: my home airport is SFO). I have never done that—are there time concerns/security issues with flying internationally (e.g., to London) only to turn around…
Lounge Review: Asiana Business Class, Seoul Incheon Midfield Concourse
[This is part four of my Million-Mile Trip Report. I’ve included links to the other installments below:] United Airlines Million-Mile Trip Report: Introduction and Background Flight Review: United Airlines BusinessFirst, San Francisco to Seoul Hotel Review: Conrad Seoul, Executive Floor King Room Million-Mile Flight Review: United BusinessFirst, Seoul to San Francisco After checking in for…
Hotel Review: Conrad Seoul, Executive Floor King Room
[This is part three of my Million-Mile Trip Report. I’ve included links to the other installments below:] United Airlines Million-Mile Trip Report: Introduction and Background Flight Review: United Airlines BusinessFirst, San Francisco to Seoul Lounge Review: Asiana Business Class, Seoul Incheon Midfield Concourse Million-Mile Flight Review: United BusinessFirst, Seoul to San Francisco The Conrad Seoul…
The Two Winners of 5 United Drink Chits Each Are…
Thanks to everyone who entered my United Airlines onboard beverage voucher giveaway, and especially to those who offered their congrats to me for crossing the million-mile mark last month. The two lucky commenters picked by the trusty random number generator are #3 and #92: Congrats to Nathan and Brian! I’ll be emailing you both momentarily…
Blog Giveaway: Five United Airlines Onboard Drink Vouchers… X2
It’s not quite Halloween, but I’m giving away some adult treats to two lucky blog readers. Contained in my United million-miler credentials that arrived earlier this week are 10 beverage vouchers good for in-flight alcoholic drinks. The vouchers are valid through January 31, 2014, so I had better give these away sooner rather than later…
United Airlines Million-Miler Credentials: A Look Inside
Last month, I (finally) rolled over one million lifetime miles in United’s MileagePlus program and yesterday I received my credentials via USPS Priority Mail. Here’s a look inside the package. The first item upon opening it was a letter from Tom O’Toole, United’s president of MileagePlus. Note the language that, “you will never fall below…
The Magic of Air Travel and How It Itself Can Be the ‘Destination’
There’s something that I’ve wanted to get off my chest for the past couple of months. I’ve seen multiple Twitter conversations lately between several different people that I follow debating the end goal of accumulating miles and points for travel. And I’m not talking about the addiction of earning status or milking the system for…
Curing a Case of Major Non-Travel Anxiety
I found myself in an unusual situation this past weekend. For the first time in… well… for as long as I can remember, I had enormous anxiety in both not traveling or having anything “on the books.†It began on Friday when I jealously monitored my Twitter feed noting how many of those I follow…