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Mileage Run Opportunity: $249.40 Nets 6,576 United Premier Qualifying Miles

Here’s a United mileage run with oodles of availability I found this morning that I haven’t seen posted elsewhere. This $99 one-way base airfare between San Francisco and Charlotte was filed back on April 26, and given it hasn’t been pulled yet, this post might stay useful longer than my last mileage run tip. It…

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TSA PreCheck for International Itineraries to Begin, Plus More

There’s good news out of the TSA today that those of us approved for PreCheck will no longer be denied access to the lanes if we’re on an international itinerary. Well, I should say most international itineraries. According to their announcement today (bolding mine): The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today that beginning May 7,…

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Seats Are Aplenty on Re-Debut of United 787 Dreamliner Flights May 20

United Airlines will operate its first post-grounding Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights in just about two weeks on May 20. And the seat maps are currently wide open. As reported by Jack Harty for Airchive, flight UA 1 will depart from Houston on Monday May 20 at 11:00 a.m., arriving in Chicago at 1:35 p.m. The…

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And the Winner of 5 United Drink Vouchers Is…

Thanks to everyone who entered and particularly for some of your fun comments. Hopefully these will help diffuse any upset over missing an upgrade or paying more for change fees. Without further adieu, the trusty random number generator picked: Well how about that, Phil… I’ve broken your string of failed drawings… congrats! I’m emailing you…

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United Club Membership Using Miles to Return, Plus More

United Airlines will soon bring back the ability to buy or renew membership in the United Club by using MileagePlus miles, according to UA Insider’s post on Flyertalk this morning. Also returning will be the ability to purchase annual subscriptions for Economy Plus, as well as an annual option for checked bags. Here’s the synopsis…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: United Airlines Boeing 747 Royal Pacific Service

United purchased Pan Am’s Pacific Division in 1985 and along with it came a fleet of 11 Boeing 747 aircraft (among others). I previously posted United’s Royal Pacific 747 seat map with a higher concentration of premium seats, and here now is the standard Royal Pacific configuration for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps.…

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Hotel Review: Hilton Tokyo Narita Airport, Deluxe Plus Queen Room

This past January I took a mileage run on United to Tokyo and stayed at the Hilton Tokyo Narita Airport for one night. The online rate I booked was shockingly low at only 8,000 yen (about $85) for a fully cancelable standard Hilton Queen room. The non-refundable advance purchase rate was only 1,000 yen less,…

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May Day Giveaway: Five United Airlines Beverage Vouchers

I can’t believe it’s already May and I just realized that I have another batch of United drink vouchers from my 2013 Premier 1K kit just lying around gathering dust. Why not kick off the month with a giveaway?! [Edited May 4 at 12:00pm PT] Thanks to everyone who entered! There were 137 entries at…

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Should Agents Process Upgrades Due to Misconnects or Close the Door?

On Saturday I flew from San Francisco to Washington Dulles on United and witnessed what could be classified as a lazy and motivated gate agent at the aircraft door. Lazy because she wasn’t going to fill the two empty seats in first class with passengers on the upgrade list, but motivated to get our delayed…

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Vintage Airline Seat Map: United Express British Aerospace BAe 146-200

How about a little regional carrier love for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps? Appearing below is the seat map for a United Express British Aerospace BAE 146-200 seen flying the skies in 1998. I enjoyed flying on this bird, as the interior was nearly equivalent to a 737. And the #avgeek in me…

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