Check out this little Fokker! 🙂 This installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps brings you a Piedmont Airlines F28 Fellowship seen flying the skies in the 1980s. The Dutch manufacturer is no long in business, but there are several of these still flying if Wikipedia is correct. This aircraft seated a total of 65 passengers…
Guest post: Lounge review of the US Airways Club in Charlotte
[Editor’s note: This post comes from my best friend and fellow frequent flyer, Eric. It’s his second lounge review to appear here on Frequently Flying… enjoy!] Darren offered to post this review of a recent visit I made to the US Airways Club in Charlotte, NC. There are two US Airways Clubs in Charlotte, one…
The newest in-room hotel amenity: live goldfish
I just love this. The University Plaza Hotel in Springfield, Missouri offers up the most unique in-room amenity yet. And you don’t have to be an elite member to get it. According to this article (Hat tip: @danisinthenews on Twitter), guests can check out a goldfish to keep them company in their rooms. Apparently each…
OFFER EXPIRED: Miles by Discover Card 20,000 Bonus Miles
[UPDATED 7/2/12: Please note, the 20,000 bonus mile offer has expired. I’m leaving this post as is for the sake of archiving the offer.] A reader recently emailed me wanting to get into the mileage-earning credit card game, but was declined by the big three – American Express, Chase and Citi – for having less…
Ranking the 19 amenity kits I’ve reviewed to date
I started my Amenity Kit Review series shortly after I launched the blog back in 2010 and have reviewed a total of 19 kits so far. Fellow blogger AAdvantage Geek asked me not so long ago if one of the kits I reviewed scored at the top and to be honest, I wasn’t exactly sure.…
United’s first reconfigured 767-300 now flying
The first United Airlines “ghetto bird†Boeing 767-300 (formerly pre-merger United’s two-class domestic -300) has completed its reconfiguration and is now flying with 30 lie-flat BusinessFirst seats, 49 Economy Plus and 135 regular economy seats. Tonight it’s operating as flight 908 from Chicago to Amsterdam and returning tomorrow as flight 909. It’s a nice looking…
‘Departure Date’ short flick filmed on the Virgin trio of airlines
If you haven’t already heard about the short narrative film shot onboard the Virgin group of airlines, here’s the trailer (below) that includes an interesting behind the scenes segment. It’s a pretty neat idea and I’ll definitely watch it simply because it’s filmed onboard aircraft, though I believe it’ll be exclusive and only available on…
Vintage Airline Seat Map: United Airlines Boeing 727-200 (1979)
United Airlines had a few variations of the Boeing 727-200 flying the skies in 1979 and I’ve selected the -222A configuration for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. Seating a total of 132 passengers, there were 14 seats in first class with 38†pitch and 118 in coach at 34†pitch (ah… those were…
American offering fast track to Executive Platinum renewal (targeted)
Oh, American Airlines. Why must you continue to offer promotions that make switching from United almost effortless? I received the following email today from AAdvantage providing the opportunity to extend my matched United 1K- to-Executive Platinum status through February 28, 2014: It is targeted and explicitly states it’s for members who receive the email directly,…
Some airlines understand the power of social media, some don’t
I just spent the past 45 minutes catching up on tweets and “chatted†with fellow BoardingArea blogger AAdvantage Geek back-n-forth a couple of times (as well as VeryGoodPoints… hi Stacey!). Anyway, AAdvantage Geek congratulated me on my Executive Platinum status and hoped to see me soon in flight when lo and behold: Now this wouldn’t…