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

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

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

This started May 15th and I seemed to have missed it but there is a 20% transfer bonus offer for Canadian RBC Avion Platinum and Infinite cardholders to transfer their Avion to American Aadvantage miles, until June 30, 2013. The minimum transfer amount is 5,000 and after that in... Read more

I had a conversation with someone yesterday about how to earn miles and points during the super popular summer wedding season.  Much of it isn’t substantially different than the ways we earn points in everyday life, but sometimes the large amount of money that people have... Read more

Last night I had a coworker with some time to kill before a redeye at LAX. Since I haven’t found it to be the best place for landside options and since neither of us had been to Encounter, the restaurant in the X I suggested we dine there. As many have said before me, it... Read more

Chase announced today that starting June 1, 2013, the MileagePlus Explorer Card will no longer have a 3% foreign transaction fee. Chase is very much an industry leader when it comes to foreign transaction fees, far ahead of American Express, Barclaycard, and Citi, all of which... Read more

I recently wrote about using Ultimate Rewards points to pay for cruises. It is an option, but in most cases, I continue to recommend you use your Ultimate Rewards to pay for flights, and just pay for your cruise with cash. No matter what currency you use to pay for your cruise,... Read more