I won’t lie this required a bit of luck and a lot of math on my end. My wife and I will both be breaking a million miles on Alaska Airlines on a flight to Bahamas Feb. 28th. Why Bahamas? Well, it was one of Alaska’s newest destinations and a place we had never been…
Kind of late in posting this, I know, but thought you might want to hear of my wife and I’s experience flying the day after this happened.photo courtesy of Fox News. We were flying from our home in Alaska back to DC on Saturday, Jan. 6th. Although we had heard about the plug door incident,…
I fell in love with Alaska and Alaska Airlines after moving to Anchorage in 2002. AS traditionally does very well with customer service and that is no better demonstrated by their long-time policy of upgrading any elite to fill the First Class cabin. I keep nerdy track of my upgrade percentage every year 2018-74%, 2019-37%,…
Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: With 2021 traveling still shaky, I’ve placed some U.S. domestic and international cancelable and/or movable trips on my travel calendar. Today’s ALL HANDS focuses on my 2021 travel planning. When will travel get back to normal? That is the key question, and absolutely no one knows the answer. Still, with vaccinations…
Alaska Airlines is my favorite FF Program and for many good reasons. I have been a MVP Gold or 75K for 18 years straight (they kept my status both times I deployed) and today’s announcement gives me even more reason to continue that streak. I just received an email from their CCO, Andrew Harrison, with…
I have written extensively in the past about the membership program Veterans Advantage and how it saves me a lot of money. My tally for the last 12 months is savings of $495 on airfare. Much more than the $59 annual fee. They have a lot of other discounts as well, such as CVS, rental…
Sorry, for not blogging a lot lately, but as a senior leader at the Corps of Engineers, you can imagine how busy I am right now. One of our benefactors from last Jan. has contacted me to offer up some UA upgrades due to his cancelling his flights. Not too many flying these days, but…
We still have some United upgrades available and now some Alaska upgrades too. However, the Alaska upgrades need to be applied by 12/31. The flight came be later, but the upgrade needs to be applied by next Wednesday. AS upgrades are a little tricky, you need to have a flight that has “U” space available….
This is becoming an annual tradition at The Military Frequent Flyer. I have been contacted by a generous donor who cannot use his United upgrades before they expire at the end of Jan. If you are in the military (including family members) and are looking for a domestic or international upgrade, please send me a…
I just received this email from Lufthansa Hmm, that sounds interesting since every other companion fare that I know of excludes First. Here is the detailed language: I checked and the fare looks a little over half: Still way too rich for my blood, but it there if you want.
