Things to do in an airport when you’re bored
Things to do in an airport when you’re bored A friend forwarded me this video. It’s interesting since I will be in PIT this week actually. It is good to know that…
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I’m off the market
I try not to talk about my personal life too much on this blog, but today I got married in a private ceremony. I have to do so much planning with work…
Customer Service in PHL
When I lived in upstate NY I had no issue calling US Airways “Useless Airways” because the odds of misconnecting in PHL are so high for me. Since I’ve moved to CLT…
Red eyes
Do I like red eyes? No. So why do I take them home from the west coast instead of staying another night and then flying home? Because I’d much rather get home…
A tale of two sandwiches
During my mileage run I had the opportunity to fly US Airways and United for the Lunch/Dinner buy on board times. Here is a recap of my experience. US Airways: For lunch/dinner…
Original Routing Credit
In the comments of my last post a fellow BoardingArea blogger mentioned original routing credit so I thought I would talk about that some. Many times I use this is a “double-dip”,…
Mileage Run update
I just had to book a mileage run that included IAD during a huge storm. That flight was cancelled so whoever edited my itinerary thought instead of CLT-IAD-DEN-SFO-BUR I should be happy…
Travel tip of the week: be kind to cleaning staff
I’ve talked about airport bathrooms before. I don’t really consider myself a restroom analyst or a restroom expert, but let’s face it, nature calls and I end up using a lot of…
Hilton 1Q Promotion
I’m going pretty pathetic in the current Hilton promotion. For every 4 stays or 10 nights a free reward night is issued with a max of 3 free nights. So far I…
Keeping track of money and points
I’ve been using Yodlee applications to track my finances for several years now. I started with Fidelity but they use either an old or stripped version of Yodlee so I migrated to…