Well, at least register for a chance to be one of five lucky people to win 1,000,000 Hilton HHonors points.

Hilton Hotels and National Car Rental are teaming up with this promotion. Simply stay at a Hilton family hotel or rent a car from National to be automatically entered into this promotion.

For further details, please read the HHonors Million Miles Promotion thread. Hurry, however, as this promotion ends 30 November 2008.

Please be aware that the vBulletin bulletin board software that powers FlyerTalk is about to get upgraded.

However, unlike many airline elite passengers, FlyerTalk does not have to wait on a stand-by list, although it is set to shut down temporarily and stand by until the new software is properly installed.

Although there are a few servers that will be accommodating FlyerTalk, FlyerTalk will not be able to consume alcoholic beverages, attain elite status for next year, or earn any miles or points while it is being upgraded.

Furthermore, FlyerTalk is not on a mileage run, so it will not encounter any HIP checks even though it travels to many countries every single day, much faster than any supersonic aircraft ever could.

Will the upgrade be worth the wait? Will it be equivalent to scoring one of those sleeper suite seats in the premium cabin? Will FlyerTalk encounter any delays on its journey? Find out tomorrow if it will indeed be safe to move about the FlyerTalk cabin, but first read this announcement for further details pertaining to the upgrade, as well as how to communicate with other FlyerTalk members while FlyerTalk is temporarily out of commission.

Not a great value at around 1-1.5 cents a point, but the awards do book as revenue (and are available for every seat) so can be used to generate FF miles.  Is this initiative an incentive to switch to SPG?  Check out the discussion here.

No, my frequent flier account has not been closed and deleted. FlyerTalk member zoro2008 is the one who posted the Continental OnePass Account Suspended thread.

Apparently Continental Airlines allegedly closed and deleted the account of zoro2008, who is accused of selling OnePass miles at www.craigslist.org — an accusation which zoro2008 vehemently denies.

To add insult to injury, some FlyerTalk members questioned the integrity of the story of zoro2008, apparently believing that this entire story was fabricated.

Will the Continental Airlines OnePass account of zoro2008 be re-instated? Will the OnePass miles allegedly confiscated by Continental Airlines be returned to zoro2008?

I apologize for the apologies regarding being sorry about the Letter of Apology to the Flying Public thread, but I do not believe I will be sorry about you being sorry pertaining to reading that thread where an anonymous flight attendant based in Los Angeles allegedly wrote a public apology to airline passengers regarding the sorry conditions of flying as a passenger on airlines after September 11, 2001.

If you are sorry about reading about the sorry conditions for which that anonymous flight attendant is sorry, then I am sorry about you being sorry for the flight attendant being sorry about the sorry conditions currently prevelant aboard aircraft these days. I just hope you are not sorry about me being sorry if you are indeed sorry about reading how sorry the flight attendant was in that public apology, because if you are sorry about that, then I am sorry.

I am sorry for using the word sorry so many sorry times in this sorry posting about being sorry…

FlyerTalk member Hauser33 claims that Starwood ruined our Honey Moon! (hotel refused to accept Starwood “honey money”).

Hauser33 was under the impression that Honey Money, paper certificates obtained for all gift purchases from one’s Starwood Honeymoon Registry, was good at any Starwood property worldwide, such as at the Four Points by Sheraton Roma West Hotel where Hauser33 attempted to use Honey Money paper certificates but was intially refused.

Did you know that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. even had a honeymoon registry program?

Confusion and disagreement abound, including extensive discussions about legal issues, whether or not it makes a difference that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. issued the Honey Money certificates and not the Starwood Preferred Guest frequent guest loyalty program, and even how Hauser33 could possibly be labeled an “international criminal”.

Can FlyerTalk members Starwood Lurker and Starwood Lurker II step in and assist Hauser33 on this issue and save the day? Has a resolution been reached? If so, what and how?

The latest airline forced to shut down its operations is Zoom Airlines.

For information and details on what to do if you have a reservation on Zoom Airlines, please refer to the Zoom Airlines Collapses thread.

Alitalia, the national airline of Italy, filed for bankruptcy.

What is the fate of this airline, which is a member of SkyTeam?

Partake in the ongoing discussions in the Alitalia files for bankruptcy thread in the Alitalia forum or the Skyteam partner Alitalia files for bankrupcy thread in the Delta forum.

I have no idea.

However, FlyerTalk member and Starwood Preferred Guest employee Starwood Lurker has invited FlyerTalk members to attend a “webinar” to walk FlyerTalk members through this new initiative and answer as many questions as time allows.

For additional information, please visit the A Big Announcement Coming From SPG on September 2nd thread.

Starwood Lurker thinks that you will be as excited about the new initiative as they are…

Perhaps the silly question of the day (of course we are, that’s one reason we visit Flyer Talk), but still interesting nonetheless.  While the quiz is in Priority Club forum, really it could be in any of the points and miles forums with just a minor change.