uptime!
As I clean my desk, I've unearthed a stack of brouchoures for the new United Club Card. These brouchers have a promotion code good for one free year, a $395 value.
I have nine of these, so as with yesterday's giveaway, i'll give these away on a first-come first-serve basis. The codes do need to be redeemed by May 31st, which is a little over two weeks away.
UPDATE (5/18/12): All the codes are now gone.
In the process of cleaning my desk I just found three American Airlines 10% off discount certificates.
These are good for domestic and international as well as one-way or roundtrip travel.
Unfortunately, they have to be used today (May 15th) for travel to be completed by (May 21).
I have three of them, first come first serve. Just comment on the blog and I'll email it to you. I ask that you only ask if you're actually going to use them given the short window of use.
A little bit ago I received an updated eTicket receipt from United for a trip in Novemeber. But I was a bit confused since this new itinerary was for a trip to Chicago and back and I had no plans (at least that I remembered) of going to Chicago.
After a bit of digging, I realized it was for a trip to Portland, OR. What's interesting is that my routing had been EWR-PDX-ORD-LGA yet somehow the system thought I was going to ORD.
So I rang the 1K desk and the agent was as perplexed as I was, but she rebooked the proper flights and had to wait for it to be reticketed. Fortunately, since the wait was a bit long, she offered to call me back after getting it all resolved.
In all my years as a CO flyer, I've never seen anything like this happen so this was definitely a new one. So pay close attention to any updated receipts you get and make sure your destination is still the same. :)
So as I posted a few weeks ago I was in a bit of a conundrum as to wheter to fly Austrian Airlines or not. In the end, I opted to stick with it and the final result is mixed.
While I really enjoyed the onboard experience (and the uniforms of the Flight Attendents), the seat was downright awful. Within an hour of sitting in the seat my bottom was numb and I was shifting to try to find a somewhat comfortable spot.
Sleeping in the seat was no picnic either. The seat greatly lacked some serious padding. But I do give high marks to the blanket. It was unique and comfortable.
On the bright side, I've heard the seats will be getting replaced over the summer so this may just be a temporary problem.
As Lufthansa continues to struggle with it's loss-making Austrian Airlines there may be little time left to try Austrian Airlines' chef on board program. If you are not familiar, there is a professional chef onboard in addition to the compliment of flight attendants. I've been looking forward to seeing how the food and service is for some time - but there is one gotcha.
A 12 hour layover.
While I can get plenty of work done in that time, I have another award ticket booked with a more direct routing. So what would you choose? The nonstop or the Austrian flight before it final departure?
Last week news started breaking out that US Airways has buy-in from the American Airlines (AA) unions to support a merger of the two airlines.
So why would the American Airlines unions so agree to a merger? And when someone comes out ahead, someone loses. The answer? Apparently Doug Parker has committed to the AA unions to just about anything they want and most important, seniority over the US Airways and America West unions. ...
