South East, welcome Southwest!
I’m not a fan of Southwest, but they do serve a purpose in the aviation world. On Sunday, April 14, Airtran will be replaced by Southwest in Charlotte. It sounds like there…
Airlines
No wonder airlines are cutting IFE
Today’s travel article on MSN is about a United flight back in February that was diverted after a parents of young children complained about the movie being aired. I haven’t seen the…
Up to 5,000 United bonus miles from Hilton
just got this in the email today… Earn up to 5,000 bonus award miles exclusively with MileagePlus and Hilton HHonors. Bonus miles make traveling even more rewarding. Book your next hotel stay…
“Women like windows”
My upgrade %age on US Airways has been pretty good, but as a lowly silver usually I seem to get the bulkhead. I hate the bulkhead, but I also figure that since…
Pay by weight for flights?
Even though fuel isn’t skyrocketing like it was a few years ago and airlines are in a better financial position than they had been it seems that an economist is thinking they…
Delta changing Same Day Confirmed?
The Delta elite perk I use most regularly is Same Day Confirmed, but there is a rumor thread on Flyertalk that claims there are big changes coming to SDC: Here are the…
Q2 Targeted Bonus for US Airways Mastercard from Barclays
Of course after I get the Chase Sapphire Preferred card and decide to migrate my purchases to that going forward I get this in my inbox: Use your US Airways Dividend Miles…
Did I just drink the Kool-Aid, or is status worth it?
I am a status flyer. I am loyal (with split loyalties) to my programs and cost and schedule being equal I will choose Delta or US Airways. Why? Because of status…upgrades, boarding…
Catch Up Post
Where did we leave off? So, I ended up deciding to migrate from United to US Airways. I got a silver challenge from a coworker and completed the 10 segments for that…
Is it time to break up with United?
I think I may have talked about this before, but being Premier Silver with United really sucks when flying US Airways. I no longer get preferred boarding. I somehow missed that Star…