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So Much For Memorizing My Mileage Plus Number…
The United Airlines representative on FlyerTalk announced that OnePass numbers would become the permanent account numbers of MileagePlus today. Last year, I flew rather extensively for interviews on American. I ended up adding my AAdvantage number at the airport with … Continue reading
Continental OnePass and Amtrak Guest Rewards Partnership Ending
Amtrak sent out an email informing Guest Rewards members that its partnership with Continental Airlines OnePass is ending December 31, 2011: While the Continental® OnePass® program will formally end in December, we’re happy to inform you that a new Amtrak … Continue reading
United Airlines Fleet Week
Last month, I managed to get an invite on FlyerTalk to United Airline’s Fleet Week events at its SFO maintenance base. United had four of its planes out for display: An A320 used for the plane pull, its A320 in … Continue reading
Say Your Last Name
There’s been a TSA policy of asking passengers to say their name at the ID/boarding pass check for a few months now. I went through the checkpoint at JFK Terminal 7 tonight, I finally got a taste. The TSO asked … Continue reading
Mileage Plus in 2012
UA Insider announced next year’s changes to Mileage Plus on FlyerTalk, on MilePoint, and United’s website. To first cover the issues… The rumored speculation about revenue requirements never came (To quote UA Insider, “Heard any good rumors lately?”). For Gold … Continue reading
Denver to New York via Los Angeles
Since there are no Saturday night redeyes from Denver to the New York-area, I caught a 7PM flight from Denver to Los Angeles to connect to the LAX-JFK p.s. redeye. As a reminder, Gogo has a sponsored 30 minute window … Continue reading
StarMegaDo in Denver
I had the chance to spend some time in one of United’s A320 simulators as part of a charity auction on behalf of the Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund. Jason Dahl was captain of United 93 on September 11, 2001. … Continue reading
Kahului to Chicago
I didn’t return straight to New York from Kahului. Instead, I ventured to Chicago via San Francisco and Las Vegas to pick up the start of StarMegaDo3. My upgrades to First Class cleared for OGG-SFO-LAS-ORD, making the redeye from Kahului … 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: