Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky
For a limited time United is offering their Door-to-Door baggage service for $25. That’s the same price as actually checking the first bag, and cheaper than checking the second bag (for those of you that are stuck paying bag fees).
(Tip of the hat to Pat)
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Great Deals, United | 1 Comment »
So I was supposed to mileage run yesterday. I was actually really, really looking forward to my mileage run because for the first time ever it was a same day trip with no redeye involved. My routing was Tampa to Chicago at 6:45AM, then Chicago to San Francisco at 10AM, then San Francisco to Washington [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 14 Comments »
….someone please convince me otherwise! And this is for an award on which my brother will join me, and he’s a wine snob. What has gotten into me?!?!
Posted on February 20th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, United | 35 Comments »
Well, the date is now official. United will be offering all elites unlimited domestic upgrades starting March 19. For some reason I didn’t expect it to be so soon. It’ll definitely be interesting to see how this all works out. I’m feeling a bit more optimistic about the new program than I originally was, especially since [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: United | 8 Comments »
As soon as all the flights from this past weekend post, I’ll be well beyond 50,000 elite qualifying miles for the year. It’s not all that impressive, other than the fact that all my travel was domestic, which means I’m at nearly 50 segments. I’ve flown every single week, have far too many redeyes to [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 6 Comments »
This past weekend I had the opportunity to once again fly with the incredible Captain Denny Flanagan. Flying with him just never gets old. What I enjoy most about being on his flights are the reactions of unsuspecting passengers. The more often I fly with him, the more I start to appreciate the reactions of people.
Let’s face [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, United | 1 Comment »
I tweeted just yesterday about my awful bump luck this year. Usually by this time in the year I’ll have scored a few “bumps.” For those of you not familiar with the term, that’s when airlines oversell flights and seek volunteers to “bump” off a flight in exchange for some compensation.
It’s funny, because today it [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 8 Comments »
Well, it looks like some changes are coming to United’s award chart starting April 27. Fortunately it’s just about the mildest “change” I’ve seen in the airline industry in a very long time, and might actually be positive.
On the plus side, awards to parts of South America are actually getting cheaper. Previously United just had [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, United | 2 Comments »
Hey, there’s no hiding that I love United, which is why I do my best to rag on them every once in a while to be fair and balanced.
I posted in the past about United’s lovely schedule change for my “regular” flight, the morning Tampa to Washington Dulles flight. I loved the 9AM [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Mileage Runs, United | 5 Comments »
I’m flying from Tampa to Washington in less than 48 hours, which means all elite upgrades have cleared. Check out how full the seatmap is:
Don’t worry, 21 pilots and flight attendants commuting to Washington will gladly fill those seats up! And they’re much more interesting to talk to than most other passengers….
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: United | 12 Comments »
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