Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: While on a Tokyo stop-over on an Alaska Airlines award redemption, I realized Tokyo has one of the most extensive but altogether confusing metro and train systems in the world. While you can buy single journey, one-day, or multi-day passes, none works on all systems. By having a rechargeable, contactless smart…
Here is an impressive post from Albert. I wish my travel year was exciting as his. Amazing that he could display all his trips on one global picture! Greetings, Fellow Travelers! BLUF: In 2019, I flew 163,951 miles, traveled to three continents, on about eight different airlines, visiting almost 20 different countries. New…
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.
One of the good things about the Marriott-Starwood merger (yes, Ed, there was something good) was the dropping of the point requirement for Lifetime status and only going by nights like the Starwood program. Marriott’s program used to require 250, 500, or 750 nights and 800K, 1200K, or 1600K points respectively for the three status…
D-Day is an iconic day in western history, especially in the countries who participated and sacrificed. I have been the luckiest guy in the world to be able to jump to re-create the jump of the 82nd Airborne Division on 5 June 1944. And I got to do it twice! This year, however, I have…
What would be a military frequent flyer blog without detailing out all the places that you can get a discount this weekend. Most of these are for free or discounted stuff on Monday, 11 November, but several are good in the days prior to that. I have highlighted those. This year’s list comes from an…
Albert writes again on one of my favorite ways to save money when traveling, the unbeatable BoA Alaska Airlines Companion Fare. My wife and I each use ours to go from D.C. to Hawaii every year and them one other exotic place such as Costa Rica. Not only do we get to fly for almost…
Yes, the title is definitely a play on the mileage run, but using United’s regular Mileplay promotion. United’s Mileplay is a promotion they run about every quarter that seems to involve a random number generator saying that if you fly x number of flights, each with a value of y, you will receive z miles….
