Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky
By popular demand I’ve decided to compile a list of United’s most commonly oversold flights, or more precisely, the flights that (in my experience) require volunteers most often. There’s a big difference, since operational considerations can often play a big part in them needing volunteers. Before I go on, here are a couple of posts I’ve written [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Advice, United | 6 Comments »
While I had seen Air New Zealand’s brilliant “nothing to hide” commercials, I hadn’t seen their new “bare essentials” safety video. Check it out:
I’m not sure whether this is a good way to get people to pay attention to the safety video, or whether it’s just a bit too distracting….
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Other Airlines, Videos | 10 Comments »
Through August 31, Aeroplan is offering 1,000 bonus miles when converting hotel points to anywhere between 5,000 and 19,999 Aeroplan miles, or 5,000 bonus miles when converting hotel points into 20,000 Aeroplan miles. Of course the timing of this couldn’t be worse for me, given that I converted SPG points into Aeroplan miles just last week.
Either way, this [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Air Canada, Free Miles/Points, Hotels | 2 Comments »
First and foremost, my thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those on the Yemenia Air flight that went down. As safe as flying is, I get chills every time I hear about any sort of fatal incident.
I’m shocked, though, by how little media attention this has received. There were about 150 people aboard, [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Media, Other Airlines | 6 Comments »
I still can’t get over the DOJ’s ridiculous opposition to antitrust immunity for Continental, but as I thought about it, the words sounded all too familiar. Then I remembered an article a reader sent in late last month written by Captain Steve Wallach, United’s top union dog (I refuses to refer to him by his [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Media, Unions | No Comments »
This week I joined the Airplane Geeks for their weekly podcast, as we discussed the week in aviation news along with mileage running. Check it out.
Thanks for having me, guys!
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Misc. | No Comments »
It’s time for a reader photo. Thanks to Ed for sending in this one.
Correct Answer: Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica
Winner: FortFun
If you’d like your photo featured, please email it to me at onemileatatime@hotmail.com, along with the correct answer.
PS: Friday will be the 100th picture. Stay tuned for something special.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Photo Contest | 6 Comments »
What’s the Department of “Justice” smoking? According to this Reuter’s article, “the U.S. Justice Department opposes broad antitrust immunity for Continental Airlines Inc (CAL.N) to join UAL Corp’s (UAUA.O) United Airlines and other members of the Star alliance, documents showed.”
That doesn’t make any sense to me, but I’m sure they have a plausible explanation, especially [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Continental, United | 9 Comments »
Both Delta and Northwest unveiled similar promotions on Friday, offering up to 5,000 or 10,000 bonus miles per roundtrip, with a maximum of ten bonuses. Unfortunately for me (and many, many others) the promotions are targeted, and I’m not one of the “chosen” ones. Based on those posting on FlyerTalk, the targeting seems pretty random. Those [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Delta, Free Miles/Points, Northwest | 13 Comments »
Gary at View from the Wing made an excellent post about how to choose the best rewards credit card. Never before have I seen such a thorough review, and since it’s written by Gary you can rest assured it’s just about the best advice you can get.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Advice, Credit Cards | No Comments »
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