I figured I would follow-up on my earlier post about United’s new Premier Qualifying Dollars after the second half of my flight posted. In case you missed it, if you want to retain status with United for the future you’ll need to meet certain…
2014 is a less than brave new world in the airline industry. If you haven’t been paying attention, Delta and United have instituted spending requirements to achieve elite status on an annual basis along with the existing mile/segment requirements. Since my first United Premier…
zWith another travel year in the books, I took a few moments to see where I’ve been and consider where I’m going. I started out the year thinking I would travel more on American and less on United. While that happened, a number of…
Apologies for the delay in posting. I’ve made a list below of winners. If you won, shoot me an e-mail to ed -at- milepoint dot com with a mailing address and I’ll get your free drink moving! Winners: Sam, for this comment that made…
I did a pretty poor job of planning my travel this year. I usually have everything mapped out months in advance so I know I have enough miles where I need them to make sure I re-qualify for my favorite status, Executive Platinum level…
I don’t cover the Delta SkyMiles program very much, mostly because they don’t have much to offer to me. My home airport, Washington Dulles (IAD) is not an airport with much service from them. And, frankly, their mileage program is pretty bad. Today, they…
Milepoint has been selling Premium Membership for a couple months now. I was pretty excited when we were able to put the package together. I’ll admit to being biased as a co-founder of Milepoint. But, it’s a pretty cool package, with United miles, Hilton…
US Airways has an offer out today for up to triple bonus miles on purchases via their shopping portal. I can’t say for certain, but this appears to be in lieu of a holiday shopping offer for total purchases on their portal. It’s still…
It was a fun 12+ hours yesterday watching folks react to the news that a travel website (OTA) in Norway was selling dirt cheap tickets on United Airlines by way of the fact that they weren’t adding fuel surcharges to any flights. Personally, I…
From Southwest’s website: It doesn’t take long to get up to 10,000 feet, so it’s not like Southwest is millions of miles ahead of Gogo. But, since they have ubiquitous satellite Wifi on planes (unlike UA or AA’s and DL’s ground-based wifi) they get…
