I decided to host a couple giveaways to celebrate the New Year! First, a reminder on how to keep informed on all the miles and points goodies we discuss: There’s a box in the right-hand corner of my website where you can enter your…
As I look forward to 2013 from a travel standpoint, I’m hoping to be in the air a bit less and home with the family a bit more. I broke down my travel recently to see what I had accomplished from a flying standpoint…
This was one of my busier years in the air. I keep track of my flights using a program called Flight Memory. I’m pretty sure I got the majority of my flight but I might have missed one or two. Some year-end factoids: 150,000…
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…
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…
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…
What’s happening in the world of travel? View From the Wing has a detailed lowdown on new fare choices at American Airlines. Gary has done an awesome job laying out a ton of detail on the new fares, so I won’t re-cover everything, but…
American Airlines’ first 777-300ER touched down at DFW today, looking like it’s substantially covered in white. I can’t confirm it’s paint and not a decal, but it sure looks like paint. This is not earth-shattering news, it was pretty widely expected to be a…
Wandering Aramean reports that United has joined the club in shutting off aggregation sites like Award Wallet. Just more piling on for some of my favorite services. Award Wallet is a big part of being able to manage all the different accounts our family…