Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky
After one of the most exhausting mileage runs I’ve taken to date, I’m back home and ready to hibernate. I’ve gotten a grand total of six hours of sleep in the past 60 hours. Best of all, I get to do it all again on Saturday.
Remind me again, why do I do this?
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 15 Comments »
Priority Club has released their new batch of PointBreaks hotels, only they haven’t updated the PointBreaks website. That means the only way to find hotels that work is to search manually, at least if you’re not patient enough to wait until they list the available properties. Many of the hotels available through PointBreaks are listed [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Priority Club | 4 Comments »
No matter how much you fly, there are always some days that make you step back and say “wow.” Well, for me that was yesterday. As I posted about, I took a bump (voluntarily) on my IAD to JFK flight because it was weight restricted. There were two other people that were involuntarily denied boarding. [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, Travel, United | 10 Comments »
As our pilots were getting aboard the 777 for our IAD-LAX flight, a girl (I should call her a lady, as she was older, but I just can’t do it) walks up to them and says “Wow, are you our pilots?” The first officer gives her a strange long and says “Eh, yeah.” She says “Oh, [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Humor | No Comments »
Up until yesterday I never drank milk by itself. I’d happily add it to my Coco Puffs cereal to create sweet chocolaty goodness, or have a glass of milk with the cookies served aboard flights. Actually, it always cracks me up to see otherwise angry looking businessman dipping their cookies in milk on airplanes.
After my [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 8 Comments »
Nothing beats innovation, and it’s sad that sometimes it takes a recession to cause companies to get creative. Marriott is essentially allowing all nights beyond what’s required for status qualification to “rollover” to next year. Furthermore, they’re running a double night credits promotion.
Every night you stay above the 50 nights needed to maintain your current [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Hotels, Marriott | 4 Comments »
Off to a good start on my flying marathon! Just scored a free ticket (was offered $200 in travel credits, but I find a free ticket to be more valuable) thanks to a weight restricted flight. Two other people were involuntarily denied boarding (IDB’ed), and one of them was livid, as he was connecting to [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 9 Comments »
Am I the one and only person that’s consistently always amused and entertained by the announcements over the PA from some flight attendants on my flights? Let me show you what I mean with some examples:
“We have a full jetway full of people”
“Expedite our boarding process to board more speedily”
“This will be a completely full [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Humor, United | 4 Comments »
So I’m sitting here in the E concourse at TPA, which only has one or two Air Canada flights a day to YYZ (depending on the time of year), ranging anywhere from an E170 to an A320. There aren’t any other international flights. That’s an absolute maximum of 280 passengers a day, probably closer to 180 [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel | 4 Comments »
The beauty of double elite qualifying miles “season.” With what I have booked at the moment I should have nearly 300,000 elite qualifying miles by the end of the month (counting double EQM’s, which won’t post until later). I’m sure I’ll have some fun stories over the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
Posted on April 28th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 15 Comments »
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