cloud commuting
I'm using Etihad Airways to get to the Maldives next fall, but if your bucket of miles are with a Star Alliance carrier, your only option for flying directly out of the Maldives (MLE) is Singapore Airlines to Singapore. Singapore runs two daily flights:
SQ461, MLE-SIN, departs at 3:00PM, lands at 10:50PM SQ451, MLE-SIN, departs at 11:25PM, lands at 7:15AMSo basically you can leave in the afternoon and get in late or you can take a redeye. Singapore AIrlines uses a 2-cabin ...
When I'm traveling, I take pictures of everything. Every now and then, I see something so neat that I decide to film it. And every now and then, I like what I filmed so much that I edit it and stick it on YouTube.
When I was in Shanghai, I thought it was pretty cool that I got a ride in the cart to the Air China Star Alliance lounge:
On that same trip, I also took the Maglev train from the Shanghai Pudong Airport to downtown:
It looks like SPG just announced their newest promotion. The Points Guy writes a fairly long summary here, but here's the basic gist:
Two night stays earn double points. Stays of three nights or longer earn triple points.This is an interesting promo for a couple reasons. First, it's kinda similar to the last promo. The primary difference is that the last promo gave you an extra bonus kicker if you stayed a weekend night - for this promo, the kicker is staying three nights or ...
I have a few pet peeves of United Airlines Gate Agents, and coincidentally, I'm bumping into two of these this morning. Granted, I think many of these irks are characteristics of ALL gate agents, regardless of airline, but I have the most experience with United. Here are the following that I'm hitting today:
Telling Everyone that the Flight is Going to Completely Full When it's Not - I'm staring at the monitor, and it is showing over 20 seats ...
Thank you, SPG Getaway Free Promotion. This promo let my fiancé and I enjoy a long weekend at the St. Regis Punta Mita. I actually think the promotion enabled MANY people to use their free nights there. Brad used his free nights there, the guy who shared a cab with us to the airport used his there, and judging from the threads on Flyertalk, many many others used theirs there as well.
I netted 4 free nights from the promo, but due to time ...
My fiancé has been carefully plotting her 2011 path to Premier, with her plan being to get over 25,000 EQMs about a week before the end of December. She didn't realize how close she was on segments, and apparently if you're a half segment short of Premier, there's a good chance that United will give you an early status bump. That's what happened to her.
Take a look at the screenshot. She's 0.5 segments short of the 30 segments required for Premier Status, and she's already listed as a Premier member.
For those on the edge, though, I wouldn't recommend praying for a bump in status from United. Typically you have to be REALLY close for them to grant you mercy, and even then, it's not guaranteed.
