Over the three years of writing this blog, I have written more than a few times about Veterans Advantage and the discounts that veterans can get with their membership. I evaluated the 5% off on United and Lufthansa flights, car rentals, and other discounts such as Ford vehicle discounts. I also use the 20% CVS…
For those of you chasing United elite status, I’m sure the news of their PQD (premier qualifying dollars) requirement was disheartening. In addition to PQM (premier qualifying miles) or PQS (premier qualifying segments), you now must spend a minimum amount of money to reach a certain tier of status with them. There are ways…
Something that has become a tradition in the three years we have written this blog is to advertise the Veterans’ Day deals that you can get every year. Here is this year’s list. Some discounts or freebies are only on Veterans’ Day and some are for the whole weekend. Hope you have a chance to…
For the international leg of the first part of our trip from JFK – SFO – HKG, I used US Airways miles to book business class (known as BusinessFirst) on United 747 flight # 869, which leaves at 1:25pm and arrives in HKG at 6:40pm, a 12 hour flight. There was a tight connection, even…
This flight was the first part of our epic US Airway’s award redemption, 180k for two people roundtrip to SE Asia (well, North Asia according to the US Airways phone agent). Again, we flew JFK – SFO – HKG (destination) – SIN (stopover) – TPE – JFK, all in business class for 90k US Air…
I received two pretty exciting emails from Uber this evening. First, UberX is arriving to Philadelphia this weekend, and you can get 3 free rides (up to $20 each) on UberX starting now through Sunday! Also, Uber is launching in Nevada, in both Las Vegas and Reno! We have family in Vegas, so giving the…
My wife and I just got back from an amazing trip to Hong Kong, Phuket, and Singapore, and I’m going to review it. Ok ok, my title is somewhat in jest, because I’m not going to review the WHOLE trip, but I flew some amazing airline products and stayed in some awesome hotels, so I…
Good morning everyone, sorry about the paucity of posts over the past 3 weeks. A lot was going on, most importantly, my co-blogger, and founder of this blog, Glenn, got promoted to Brigadier General – Bravo Zulu Sir! We finally got to meet at BACon (BoardingArea Convention) in Vegas, and we had a great time….
So I don’t write very many hotel reviews, but we got a lucky break when staying in Las Vegas for Boarding Area’s convention, BAcon. The wife and I came a day early so had our own reservation at the Mandalay Bay. Randy coincidentally had booked the Manadaly Bay for all the convention goers for Friday…
COL Glenn alerted me to a blog post where a child on a plane had a severe peanut allergy, and anaphylaxed (stopped breathing) when a passenger 4 rows away had opened a bag of peanuts. He wanted my medical opinion on this case. I find her anaphylaxis from 4 rows away by smelling peanuts dubious,…
