Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

Your chance to win a trip to the Gold Coast courtesy of Boarding Area and American Express!

As you may have read about on several Boarding Area blogs by now, you’ll have a chance to win a free trip for two to Australia’s Gold Coast, including virtually everything, valued at over $10,000. Boarding Area and American Express will even pitch in and provide cash and gift cards to cover most of the taxes.
The [...]

Anyone up for dinner in San Francisco on Friday, April 2?

Have a quick trip to San Francisco in a couple of weeks and would love to meet up with anyone that may be around for dinner. If you’re interested, feel free to post in the FlyerTalk thread, comment here, or shoot me an email.

New poll question….

It has been a while since I’ve changed the poll question over on the right side of the blog, so I figured it’s about time. The question is:
Do you think one of the US legacies will offer a double elite qualifying miles promotion in the first half of 2010?
Please cast your vote over on the right side [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year (hopefully)….

I don’t know about you guys and girls, but there’s something about March that excites me. No, not the spring. And no, not the traditional March Madness either. I’m talking about the other March Madness — the real March Madness – that we like to refer to as double elite qualifying miles promotions.
Well, it’s looking [...]

Two years and counting….

I’m great with anniversaries, aren’t I? I just noticed on the side of my blog that I started blogging in February of 2008. I decided to look a bit closer and noticed I started February 4, and after looking at the calendar I realized that was exactly two years ago.
Without turning this into a big [...]

A quick note about Twitter….

No doubt I’ve been a crappy “tweeter” in the past. I’m just not that into Twitter. I used it mostly for aviation/flying/travel related stuff, yet I never accessed it on my cell phone while traveling, and by the time I got home I tended to prefer blogging over “tweeting” and trying to figure out how [...]

Happy New Year!

First of all I wanted to wish everyone a very happy New Year. May it be filled with plenty of travel, upgrades, award tickets, promotions, and of course good service. And more importantly (that’s right, travel isn’t the most important thing in life), may it be filled with good health, family, and friends.
I’ve never been [...]

San Francisco dinner on Friday, January 8

If anyone happens to be in the Bay Area on Friday, January 8, I’ll be hosting a FlyerTalk dinner that evening. I’m still working on a time and location, but expect it to be somewhat late (7PM at the earliest) and in the city (as opposed to Burlingame, where I often host dinners).  Details can be [...]

It’s coming, I promise!

So sorry for the delay on the trip report, folks. I promise the next installment will be posted today, and a subsequent installment will be posted every day.
In the meantime, here’s some Jeopardy music for your listening pleasure:

Help Justin win a million miles

Reader Justin is a finalist in the American Way 2009 Road Warrior competition. If he wins he’ll get 1,000,000 American miles and 2,000,000 Hilton points! Let’s vote for him and help him win this. Besides, you could win 200,000 Hilton points just for voting. And if you post in this FlyerTalk thread, you could even win [...]