uptime!
As a frequent traveler to London, one of my frequent challenges is getting around. Often I'll find hotels at Heathrow at very reasonable prices, which is a great place to stay if you have an early morning flight the next day. One of the little known things about the area around Heathrow is free to ride on public buses, this is dubbed the Heathrow Free Zone. The Transport for London's website has information on the area that is free here .
So while the hotels ...
On a positive note, last night United announced on Flyertalk that they have revised their expiration policy for GPU and RPUs. Now, instead of expiring a year from their issue date, they will expire at the end of the January of the status year. So, if you earned your 2012 certificates, they won't expire until 1/31/2014.
This is great news and matches the old Continental policy, which was better than the United one. The original United granted you certificates on January 1st and gave you 13 months to use them. The current policy grants them the day you hit 100,000 miles, so if you earn them in June, you get them for an extra six months.
United said any certificates issued in 2012 will automatically have their date adjusted and sure enough, when I logged in this morning, all of mine have been extened to 1/31/2014.
Bonus!
I've long hated travel agencies and found them useless in most cases. For years I've been forced to use a travel agency for business travel and it irks me as the agency and it's agents are often clueless and tend to be more of an obstruction to getting to my end point.
Om recent years I've learned one of the benefits of travel agencies is mixed-carrier itineraries. Unfortunately you can't book an itinerary with multiple carriers on any airline's website so you're ...
Yesterday the City of Houston voted to approve a project to expand the city's second airport, Hobby, to include international flights. The city already has a very large international airport on the north end of town, Intercontinental. But the motivation to add international capacities at Hobby were driven by Southwest, who consolidated all of their Houston operations at Hobby a few years back.
Southwest plans to launch flights into Central America and the ...
Even the most experienced road warrior will find themselves in their hotel room realizing that they've forgotten to pack something. Over the years I've forgotten a number of things ranging from my laptop's power supply to my toiletry case. Some things are easier to replace while some are harder, rarely is anything impossible.
A few weeks ago I drove down to Maryland for a meeting the following morning. I arrived at my hotel later in the evening and started to unpack ...
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.
