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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:  

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