Things are in full swing for the first hotel promotions of 2013. Once again, the important take away here is to register for all the promos even if you don’t think you’ll patronize a specific chain during the promo period. Plans change frequently and…
During our recent trip on StarMegaDO4, our trip started out at LAX with a flight from LAX to Frankfurt on Lufthansa. While I’ve flown in an out of LAX dozens of times I don’t recall ever having an international departure out of Tom Bradley. …
United has announced a handful of new domestic and international routes. By hub, here are the new routes: Washington Dulles: Guatemala City, Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica Vancouver Grand Rapids, MI Chicago: San Jose, Costa Rica Fairbanks, Alaska Newark: Edmonton Denver: Fort MacMurray,…
Scott McCartney has a good piece in today’s Wall Street Journal about people spending money to achieve status, either by taking flights they don’t need to take or “buying up”. No question, I’m a status snob. But, status is more then just a seat…
It’s that time of year again. I got my monthly Hyatt newsletter, and noticeted that Hyatt has announced properties that are getting more expensive and cheaper to book using Gold Passport points in 2013. It’s good to see that the list is very small this…
I mean, it’s not like US Airways has been unable to agree on a contract with their pilots and settle the seniority issue over, say, the last 7 years. A small group of pilots at AA is making known their concern with a possible…
StarMegaDO4: Getting Under Way StarMegaDO4: Sheraton Gateway LAX Review StarMegaDO4: Lufthansa LAX-FRA Departure And Star Alliance Lounge StarMegaDO4: LAX-FRA On a Lufthansa 747-400 StarMegaDO4: Media Roundtable With Jeff Zidell and Other Hyatt Execs StarMegaDO4-Frankfurt Lufthansa Welcome Reception StarMegaDO4: 18 Hours in Zurich, Park Hyatt…
Tomorrow is the last day to take advantage of the American Airlines shopping portal bonus. All the major airlines are offering roughly the same bonus. So, if you’re “miles agnostic”, it makes sense to max out the AA offer first, since United and others…
After making my kids pancakes this morning, I settled in to check e-mail. The first e-mail I read this morning was a post on View From the Wing entitled, “Washington Dulles is a Very Bad Airport”. Gary and I agree on most things, and…
As a in pursuit of lifetime status with both Hyatt and Starwood, I’ve been dedicating all my paid stays to Hyatt this year and all my award stays to Starwood. Roughly a year ago now, SPG made some pretty significant changes to their program. …