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Lufthansa's First Class Terminal & LH901 FRA-LHR - Oz Fest 2012
OzFest 2012 (Canberra) - Introduction Lufthansa First Class, Denver to Frankfurt Lufthansa's First Class Terminal and LH901, Frankfurt to London Hilton Paddington Station London to Sydney, the Long Way, in United Business Sydney's Qantas Club & The Q400 to Canberra The Park Hyatt Canberra Touring Canberra Canberra's Qantas Club & The Beginning of a 13,000 Mile Journey

Once I made it through Customs, I began my walk over to the First Class Terminal. As an inbound first ...

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Lufthansa First Class, Denver to Frankfurt - Oz Fest 2012
OzFest 2012 (Canberra) - Introduction Lufthansa First Class, Denver to Frankfurt Lufthansa's First Class Terminal and LH901, Frankfurt to London Hilton Paddington Station London to Sydney, the Long Way, in United Business Sydney's Qantas Club & The Q400 to Canberra The Park Hyatt Canberra Touring Canberra Canberra's Qantas Club & The Beginning of a 13,000 Mile Journey

Just four days before I was scheduled to depart for Oz Fest, I visited United.com to see if there were ...

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OzFest 2012 - Introduction
map OzFest 2012 (Canberra) - Introduction Lufthansa First Class, Denver to Frankfurt Lufthansa's First Class Terminal and LH901, Frankfurt to London Hilton Paddington Station London to Sydney, the Long Way, in United Business Sydney's Qantas Club & The Q400 to Canberra The Park Hyatt Canberra Touring Canberra Canberra's Qantas Club & The Beginning of a 13,000 Mile Journey

Before I start this trip report, I want to offer my apologies for taking so long to write it. This past ...

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Plane Pull Results from the 2012 United Family Day - We Won!

As you may recall, I flew out to San Francisco at the beginning of October for United's Family Day event. One of my favorite parts of the event is the plane pull, where a group of twenty~ people attempt to pull an A320, with a large rope, as far as possible. This part of the Family Day is similar to tug of war, although the opponent weighs close to 80,000 pounds!

Despite a delay in releasing the results, I was pleased to see that the FlyerTalk team has continued their winning ...

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Mileage Running to Anchorage, and $600 in VDB certificates, on United Airlines
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As I've discussed in the past, I plan my mileage runs for the weekends that I am not too busy with school work. Where I go usually depends on the miles I am looking for, although the price is usually what I pay a bit more attention to. On this occasion, I had an e-certificate that was going to expire, so this trip was more of a "fun-run".

When I booked the ticket, the plan was to fly up to Anchorage, and then turn straight around to Kansas City. I would have loved to spend time in ...

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United Airlines Economy Plus LAX-Singapore: Twenty Four Hours in Singapore
Introduction United Airlines Economy Plus LAX-Singapore The Grand Hyatt Singapore United Airlines Economy Plus Singapore-Denver

The Friday before we left for Singapore, I flew from Kansas City, through Chicago, to San Francisco. My original plan was to fly a quick mileage run from SFO>Newark on Friday night, return Saturday, and then fly down to LAX to then spend the night before the flights to Singapore at the LAX Hilton. I had applied a regional upgrade to the SFO>EWR ...

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