I know I listed this as a recap of the week of May 13, but it actually started before then since I spent a weekend at my destination.  Note, I don’t do this regularly and I always make sure the airfare is cheaper to do this and don’t expense anything before I would have... Read more

Don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Twitter! No significant news today, so here is a very good post from Gary about when airlines load their award seats. I found this tumblr site hilarious, thanks to Food, Wine, and Miles‘ post on FT. This is my favourite so... Read more

In article published this morning in Bloomberg, American Chief Commercial Officer Virasb Vahidi, discusses the major modification plans for the new A321 jets entering the American fleet this coming November. The jets will replace the current B767-200 equipment on the JFK-LAX... Read more

Take a tour of the First Class cabin on American’s new Boeing 777-300ER and never leave your desk. I just noticed a link on AA.com to a virtual tour. No baked on board cookie, but if give you a good idea what it looks like up at the front of the plane. Go here to [...] Read more

Italian authorities have given the go-ahead for Emirates to proceed with their planned service between Milan Malpensa and JFK effective October 1st 2013. The route, which continues on to Dubai, will be operated using B777-300ER aircraft in addition. The flight will be in... Read more

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake. Ray Manzarek, musician, radio and TV personality, and co-founder and keyboard player for the Doors, died Monday, May 20 in the town of Rosenheim,... Read more

Speaking of sins, forgive me for not posting for some time. Over the past 2 weeks, ironically, I spent a few days at an airport… but this time I wasn’t flying; instead, I was having fun throwing iron around and getting my adrenaline pumped by doing things like... Read more

Lots of people have their quirks when they check into their room. Some are neat freaks and like to toss the comforter and television remote in a pile. I’m sure they would burn them if they could, much like in The Velveteen Rabbit. Others order room service, pull out the... Read more

Purchasing Vanilla Reload cards and loading them to an American Express Bluebird card has been a very hot topic in the points and miles world. This is because you can write checks (physically and online) from your American Express Bluebird account and the funds are essentially... Read more

It’s time for a reader photo. Thanks to Kenny for sending in this one. Correct Answer: Winner: If you’d like your photo featured, please email it to me at onemileatatime@hotmail.com, along with the correct answer.        Related... Read more

Earlier this month American Airlines and Klout teamed up to offer people with a Klout score of 55 or higher a free Admirals Club day pass. If you went to American’s special promotion website and didn’t score a pass there’s still hope: if you increase your... Read more

Here are a few quick updates from the miles and points world: Chase has introduced a new benefit to the United MileagePlus Explorer card by eliminating the foreign transaction fees effective June 1.  Most of my Chase Rewards credit cards already had no foreign transaction fee,... Read more

Starwood Hotels says the future of luxury hotels is catering to the luXurY traveler, according to an exclusive interview given to Melanie Nayer in her column at 4Hoteliers.com. The article says 85% of Starwood’s luxury guests are Generation X and Generation Y wealthy... Read more

JetBlue is offering a promotion to get more people to sign up for their TrueBlue rewards program. If you aren’t already a member and sign up and fly by June 19, 2013 you will receive 7,500 TrueBlue points. The one caveat is that you must fly a roundtrip flight by this... Read more

It’s been a while since I’ve visited United’s MileagePlus auction website, but yesterday I went there for research on an article I’m writing. And to my amazement, one of the auction items is for a pre-merger United red carpet. I love airline collectibles and memorabilia,... Read more

Oman Air is slowly building its fleet up of Airbus A330 aircraft, with the airline ordering three Airbus A330-300′s. This will push Oman Air’s fleet of Airbus A330 to 10 aircraft, split between: - 3 Airbus A330-300′s (owned) - 2 Airbus A330-200′s (onwed)... Read more

By my rough calculations I should be about 500 miles off the western coast of Chile right now, happily ensconced in a LAN business class seat next to my wife as we wend our way to Easter Island for the Memorial Day Weekend holiday. Alas, instead I’m sitting on my couch at... Read more

I know, this is heresy. Writing a blog about driving? I mean, you don’t earn miles or points by just driving so who cares? Well, I thought I would pass this along because: (a) many business travelers actually do drive for their work; (b) many leisure travelers pack up their... Read more