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Civil Liberties Have Had Better Days
“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower The USA Today reports “at least five…flights were disrupted Sunday because of security concerns.” … Continue reading
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Honolulu to Kahului
For my hop from Honolulu to Kahului, I was an a United-marketed codeshare operated by Hawaiian Airlines. HNL is an open airport: Hawaiian uses Boeing 717’s for its inter-island flights. They feature a first class as well, but for … Continue reading
Honolulu
To reach Honolulu, I flew on United 421 from Newark to Honolulu with a stop in San Francisco to change planes from an A320 to a Boeing 777. Since United’s domestic non-p.s. first class is rather uniform, I’ll omit the … Continue reading
Trip Report: SFO-EWR-HNL-OGG-SFO-LAS-ORD-YUL-DEN-LAX-JFK
I attended StarMegaDo3 last week. To position myself for the start of its North American portion in Chicago, I trekked from from New York via Honolulu and Kahului. Plotted with gcmap, my routing looks like:
StarMegaDo
In lieu getting my photos online of my trip out of New York to Chicago (via Hawaii) or of the events themselves, I offer the Wall Street Journal’s coverage (for the time being).
Free Wifi on UA p.s. in September
The Gogo company representative on FlyerTalk announced that passengers on United’s p.s. service (JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO) will have 30 minutes of complimentary internet access during the month of September. Depending on how well publicized this is to passengers actually on … Continue reading
Another Marriott Promo
Loyalty Traveler reports another Marriott promotion for the fall, running not quite concurrently with their MegaBonus promotion. Earning is limited to United, Delta, British Airways, Lufthansa, GOL/Varig, and LAN. The first stay earns a base of 2 miles per dollar. … Continue reading
Boarding Processes
There’s plenty of anecotal views on how to best board an airplane. A new paper showed up in the arXiv last week with experimental results (albeit with limited sample size) for different strategies. Randomized boarding beat back-to-front and the block-based … Continue reading
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Fall Hotel Promotions
Starwood announced its Triple Up promotion. For stays involving a Thursday or Sunday night, there is a triple SPG point bonus; for all other stays, there is a double SPG point bonus. There’s a few nonparticipating hotels as well. Registration … Continue reading
This Quarter’s Hyatt Promotion
Hyatt announced their newest promotion on FlyerTalk: Every 3k eligible nights earns a 5k point bonus up to a total of 30k bonus points. Registration opens on September 15. For reference, the Hyatt award chart starts at 5k points per … Continue reading