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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

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Denied Boarding Statistics

I’ve been voluntarily denied boarding (VDB) four times this year on United, netting me a total of $1,800 in United travel vouchers.  Earlier in the year, I also turned down a $400 offer because the reroute involved a layover at … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Mileage Plus Rumors

Yesterday’s rumored changes have turned into a 36 page long thread (as of this writing) on FlyerTalk.  The lack of a complete denial by United’s representative on FlyerTalk isn’t helping.  A few other bloggers have written on the topic as … Continue reading

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Possible Changes to MileagePlus?

Lucky reports that there might be some significant changes coming to United’s elite program starting next year.  The scary bit:  Elite levels have revenue requirements associated with them.

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Livery Spotting

United’s A320 painted in its “Friendship Livery” pulled up right before we pushed back for our IAD-DEN leg two weeks ago.  

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Changes You’re Going to Like

In March, Jeff Smisek of United Airlines was mum about upcoming changes to United’s Mileage Plus and Continental’s OnePass programs.  United launched its “Mileage Plus Explorer” card. As far as benefits go, it mostly resembles the legacy OnePass Plus card … Continue reading

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Airlines, Codeshares, and Passengers

Someone at work was looking to get to Europe later this summer and asked my advice for how I find cheap fares.  I pointed out ITA in addition to my paid ExpertFlyer account.  A quick search later turned up an … Continue reading

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p.s. Business Class

To get back to New York, I traveled along SJC-LAX-JFK.  Once again, booking myself onto the p.s. redeye to New York. United leaves SJC-LAX service to SkyWest.   Having noticed that my p.s. flight was looking a bit empty a … Continue reading

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Cleared to First Class

Around 3AM Eastern, my upgrade for my DEN-SJC segment cleared 11 hours in advance. Seat selection didn’t happen until I got to JFK in the morning due to some computer glitch, so I wound up in 1F. In contrast to … Continue reading

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And they put your name on the side of a plane…

In the movie Up in the Air, Ryan Bingham describes the rewards that come with accumulating 10 million American Airlines miles.  As in the movie, American counts all mileage for lifetime status purposes including elite bonuses and credit card miles, … Continue reading

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