My friend Ed Pizzarello of Pizza in Motion fame, hosts a podcast called Miles to Go. On his show he often laments/ humblebrags that he has never been to Hawaii. I almost think that people on his show are so amazed by that fact that he takes it as a point of pride to have…
United has come out with their annual promotion. In the past, they offered bonus award miles if you flew a certain number of miles in a short period. The requirement was tailored to a MileagePlus member’s relative amount of travel. Those with little travel being required to travel only a little, but also getting only…
The wife and I took advantage of some of those super low fares to Asia that were advertised last fall. I had always wanted to bring her to experience Songkran, the Thai New Years celebration, and got round trip IAD-BKK tickets on United for less than $600 each. The main reason for these super cheap…
Courtesy of reader Pete, he is donating 4 GPUs and 2 RPUs. However, they expire at the end of this month, so you need a ticketed reservation to fly by 31 Jan. He would like them to go to veterans or currently serving members of the military. I don’t have any way to verify that,…
Well, Random.org has selected 4 winners out of the 25 people who replied to the post. Congratulations to all the winners. I have given them 2 weeks to find an eligible fare. If they can’t come up with one, I will redraw from the same list and give someone else the chance.
I have four AS Gold Guest Upgrades that expire 12/31/17 and will give them away to people posting a reply to this post. These upgrade certificates are actually more valuable than in the past because Alaska has reduced their F class from four rows to three on most flights. They did this to install Premium…
I have flown my fair share of business class, but Emirates exceeded all my expectations – no surprise if you have ever flown Emirates. My first flight ever with Emirates was in 2002 and I was on a full Y fare and then upgrade into Business. Only they didn’t tell me that I had been…
I received an email from Mileage Plan Shopping yesterday with a great, no-brainer offer. Earn 700 Alaska miles which are usually valued at 2.0 cents each if you subscribe to 2 months of the Wall Street Journal for only $1. I personally think very highly of the WSJ, so the 700 miles seem like icing…
Hi, I’m Chuck Brackett and this is my first ever blog post. I spent over 21 years in the Navy and I’ve spent the last 8 as a Navy spouse so I’ve seen a good bit of the world. Much of it from the deck of a warship, but I’ve also been flying for a…
This was supposed to be a review about Swiss Air Business Class, but things turned out very different than planned. The wife and I were going to Budapest on vacation for four days by using United miles to fly DCA-EWR-ZRH (with a six hour layover)-BUD. Everything was all set until Tropical Storm Irma came rolling…
