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Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

Taking my chances and flying this weekend!

Well, despite the pending tropical storm and travel waivers, I just booked a mileage run for this coming weekend, only three days out! I love the L fare from TPA-SEA that UA publishes, given that it only has a three day advance purchase requirement. That’s great since UA seems to open up a bunch of [...]

Policy announcement: meal service on flights to Europe

I’m sure just about everyone received this email today:
Dear Mr. Lucky,
Thank you for your direct, candid feedback on the test we had planned to launch in the fourth quarter for food choices on some of our flights. We heard you and have decided not to move forward with the test of offering customers buy-on-board options [...]

Trip Report: Lufthansa First to the US with some twists and turns (and attitude)

All Installments:
Introduction
Lufthansa First to Europe, part one
Lufthansa First to Europe including the First Class Terminal, part two
InterContinental Malta
Six days in Malta
Lufthansa Business MLA-FRA
InterContinental Frankfurt and a fun evening
Lufthansa First to the US with some twists and turns
 
Upon arrival at the airport train station we made the 15 minute trek on the outside corridor of the [...]

United reconsidering charging for meals IAD-Europe?

My friend Ryan just pointed out to me that the united.com meal page, which previously had the blurb about about IAD-Europe flights being buy on board, no longer mentions that. Now it once again says that “We serve complimentary meals on most international flights between the United States, South America, Europe, South Pacific and Asia,” [...]

Planning out my travel for the rest of the year…. can’t decide!

Usually my travel goals don’t require too much planning since I easily hit the thresholds I want and I just stop there. This year is different. With increased travel and the double elite qualifying miles (EQM) promotion earlier in the year, I’m sitting at 155,000 EQM’s already, with two trips booked bringing me to 170,000 [...]

“Breaking Up With United Airlines”

Thanks to FlyerTalker flygirl94 for posting a link to this video on FlyerTalk. On one hand it’s absolutely hilarious, but at the same time it’s largely true and sad.
That being said, some of Steve’s points don’t add up. He complains about legroom at United, which is probably the one department United isn’t weak in. They have Economy [...]

United invites Flyertalkers to join Employee Open House at SFO — Oct. 12, Fleet Week

I wanted my blog readers to be the first to know about a great event that United has graciously invited 100 FlyerTalkers to attend. Employee Open House, aka Fleet Week is usually only open to employees and their friends/family, but this year an invitation has been extended to a limited number of FlyerTalkers. For all of [...]

United to lay off 1,550 flight attendants

From the Chicago Tribune:
UAL Corp.’s United Airlines plans to cut 1,550 flight attendant jobs, Bloomberg News and Crain’s Chicago Business reported Wednesday.
In a notice to the flight attendants’ union, United said it’s offering voluntary furloughs of six to 21 months starting Oct. 31 and hasn’t announced layoffs.
“As we reduce the size of our fleet and [...]

Story from a reader!

Here’s an experience a friend/reader emailed to me last week, and it was so refreshing to read on so many levels. While it might be long, trust me, it’s worth every word and says so much about what’s possible with a positive attitude.
Ben,
I never expected this to get this long, but I suppose this is what happens when you [...]

Airport ticketing fun

Since I’m moving nearly three hours from the nearest UA station tomorrow (going back to school), I figured it was time to do some airport ticketing. I have a bunch of vouchers sitting around and had some travel to plan, so spent last night putting a few tickets on hold, which I ticketed at the [...]