Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but in case you haven’t heard about the newest United Airlines promotion, here it is. Until midnight tonight Central time, there’s a 40% savings in purchased MileagePlus miles on United’s website. If you’re close to an award, I say absolutely go for it. Anywhere from 2,000 miles…
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American and United bonus mile offers
Both American and United came out with new bonus mile offers today. Well… the United one wasn’t officially announced, but the registration page is up. More on that in a moment. American Airlines is offering double AAdvantage miles (redeemable, not elite) on a batch of select Alaska Airlines flights. Registration is required and the travel…
New American and United bonus mile opportunities
There have been quite a few new bonus mile opportunities released by both American and United that I’m just now catching up on. Here’s a summary of some of them: American Airlines BOS-NRT: In celebration of the new nonstop service on Japan Airlines between Boston and Tokyo Narita, earn double redeemable miles every time you…
Whacky United Airlines MileagePlus flight postings
I’m certain I’m not the only one noticing issues with how United Airlines flights have been posting to MileagePlus lately. Initially, I was going to remain silent as the errors have been – until now – to my benefit, such as upgraded flights reflecting 150% EQM as if they were paid premium cabins. Now, however,…
Hilarious “Hitler’s Rage” video about United Airlines’ MileagePlus changes
One of my good friends sent me a link to a gut-busting version of the “Hitler’s Rage” video showing how “Hitler” reacts to the 2012 United Airlines MileagePlus program changes. If you understand German it might not be that funny, but the captions are brilliantly written and perfectly timed for a highly entertaining four minutes.…
Insight from Jeff Smisek’s United Airlines presentation this week
Earlier this week, United Airlines and many other carriers presented at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense Conference in New York, and once again, Jeff Smisek was very engaging as he’s willing to go off-script a bit adding more than what the bland presentation slides provide. I listened to the 40-minute audio of his…
A word of caution about mileage accrual on United Airlines direct flights
A couple of weeks ago, I flew legacy Continental Airlines from Los Angeles to Houston and overheard the gate agent at LAX announce, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll shortly begin boarding for flight XXXX to Houston with continuing service to Denver…†I was a bit taken back by the fairly significant backtrack routing for the flight’s…
Nostalgia: United Airlines Mileage Plus cards 1990-Present
If you haven’t already figured me out, I’m an airline geek to the max and save absolutely everything related to my travels. As such, I’ve kept every frequent flyer card issued to me from any airline no matter its expiration. My favorite, quite honestly, is my Pan Am card, but given I received my new…
Haven’t received your 2012 MileagePlus credentials? Me either
It might seem petty to be anxiously awaiting the arrival of my 2012 MileagePlus credentials, but as most of you know, Star Alliance “lounge dragons†demand a valid card for entry. I’ve witnessed many people turned away after not being able to present a current card even though their Star Gold status is clearly evident…
How to navigate your MileagePlus account… ERROR 404
Just a quick post to note my discomfort with United’s homepage this afternoon. You know that central windowpane that features scrolling specials and other updates? Here’s one of the items appearing right now and it looked new to me, so I decided to click in to see if it contained any information different from what…