Place of Travel Deals, Frequent Flyer/Guest Programs
You can link them from here and transfer miles btw accounts instantly, but do note that transfer miles btw accounts doesn’t extend u miles expiration on Delta.
This is a indirect way to transfer ur Amex Membership points to Northwest
Upgrade on UA new Business class from SFO-HKG is extremely hard, Inventory Management people try to hold seats until last minutes. I checked in at LAX 4.5 hours prior to departure and the service director on site told me they only sold 22 seats in Business class and I was #4 on the waitlist, she couldn’t understand why the seat still hadn’t opened up.
After getting into LAX RCC around 4 hours prior to SFO-HKG departure, upgrade finally cleared. My flight from LAX-SFO scheduled for take off on 9:35 and landed in 10:55, which left me 1 hour for the connection, but after I boarded the plane, Capital annonced that there would be a delay due to air traffic control at SFO.
The plane finally landed at SFO GATE 90 on 11:33 am and flight to Hong Kong still scheduled for departure on time at 11:55 am at GATE G102. I run as fast as I can from the furthest gate in Terminal 3 to THE furthest gate in international terminal. Cabin door closed right after I step into the plane. Although, I finally made on board, I was really worried about my checked luggage.
The business seat itself is very good, lie flat bed and it does make a better sleep than 170 degree reclined seat. IFE system is running all the time, so u don’t have to wait until take off to enjor ur entertainment. However, the movie selection is still not great, I have watched most of them already. No comments on food since I am still on diet. Overall, Not bad if u just want to have a very good sleep.
BTW, I was happy to see my checked luggage arrive with me. 
I mentioned here about new NWA three tier redemption chart, which is similar to Delta system. However, the intra Asia Economy and Intra Africa Economy/Business still remain as 20K and 25K/50K and agent still able to calculate award level manually, so redeem them ASAP if u want to go to these detinations.
use 30000 BMI miles +105 british pounds for North America-Zone 8 one way business class award, whole process took less than 10 minutes, but they got my wife last name wrong, so had to ring back to correct it. Also, the taxes amount did not match to ITA, so will ring back tomorrow to ask for taxes detail.
In addition, redeemed 37000 km on Hainan Airline RT in F from SZX-PEK. was going to redeem from HKG-PEK, but Hongkong airline has blackout date until Feb 3rd, use SZX instead.
via View from the wing, Hertz is offering its invitation level only-platinum membership for sale at price of $1350 if u r Gold, or $1275 if u r Five Star $1200 if u r President Circle. The benefit includes vehicle airport delivery, guaranteed upgrade, extra grace period, etc
If u rent car every week and want to save time at airport like LAX,IAD, ORD, go for it.
You must select ur bonus by March 5th if u reached threshold and registered prior to June 15ht,2008.
The link is here
Register here, then transfer ur MR points to Delta before Feb 15th,2009 and earn 20% bonus miles.
It is Hainan Airline, the forth largest ariline in China, aka Grand China airline for international route. Although, they are not part of any alliance right now, I am expecting it will join oneworld eventually.
they have following advantages:
the only airline sells YUP fare, F class with price of full fare Y
the only airline you don’t need to go to ticketing office to get award ticket with passenger ID copy,everything can be done on the phone and soon online
only airline has personal entertainment system on international flight in every seats
180 degree C cabin seats for international flight, also used for SYX to PEK route.
has lowest award requirement. eg. from PEK-HKG in F only cost u 37000km Roundtrip.
Award seat is on request basis and it is very easy to get one, if u r Silver or Gold member, you can get free seats on almost any flights
and many more benefits that other big three airlines don’t have.
我觉得海航是现在中国最好的航空公司，无论是从服务，里程兑换，还是飞机硬件，都比别的3家大公司快一步。虽然现在不是任何一个联盟的成员，但我估计迟早会加入寰宇联盟（oneworld)
超值商务舱的票，付全价经济舱，直接升级到商务舱
电话上就可以搞定里程兑换，不需要到订票处提供证件复印件。
国际航班上经济舱每个座位都又娱乐系统
180度的国际航线商务舱座椅，有时用三亚到北京的航线
里程兑换的要求最低，从北京到香港头等舱才37000公里往返。
里程兑换是申请制，很容易，如果是金银卡会员，就更容易了，基本什么飞机都又票放出来
还有很多其他的好处
Earn 3,000 AAdvantage® bonus miles when you join Netflix. Plus, earn an additional 500 miles after your third month of service. Offer ended on Feb 1st, 2009.
JFK-LAX(stopover)-SFO-HKG-SFO-LAX-JFK, total is $1017, not too bad consider inbound is 5 months later and a stopover in LAX and W class, which can be upgraded with my systemwide certificate.
I was looking for fuel surcharge buster to drop fuel surcharge, but my return is too far away, the buster route has not release any cheap ticket yet, adding buster route only pushed the price higher.
Got this offer in my email today, you need to register here, then fly from SFO/LAX to listed destination below or v.v, valid only on tickets purchased between January 13 and February 9, 2009, for travel through April 30, 2009.
| Los Angeles to or from: | San Francisco to or from: |
| Seattle | Seattle |
| San Francisco | San Diego |
| Boston | Boston |
you will earn
| Roundtrips in F,P,A,C,D,Z,Y,B,M,E,U,H,Q,V: |
Roundtrips in W,S,T,L,K: |
| Fly 1, earn 1,500 miles | Fly 1, earn 500 miles |
| Fly 2, earn an additional 2,500 miles |
Fly 2, earn an additional 1,000 miles |
| Fly 3, earn an additional 3,500 miles |
Fly 3, earn an additional 1,500 miles |
| Total: 7,500 miles | Total: 3,000 miles |
