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.

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. :)

United and Chase recently released a new version of their club card.  Dubbed the United MileagePlus Club Card, the card mimic's most of the featurs of the legacy Continental Presidential Plus Card.  The biggest difference between the legacy and new product is that the new card no longer offers Flexible Elite Qualifying Miles (Flex EQMs) and that the new card now gives 1.5 miles per each dollar spent instead of the 1 mile per dollar.  Additionally the annual fee has gone up $20 ...

As a number of United fliers are aware, March 3nd marks the day when United and Continental move to a single Passenger Service System or PSS for short.  Over the last few months, there has been a lot of animosity, particularly from the legacy United fliers about how awful this will be.   But will it really be that awful or is this the general over sensationalism that the legacy UA fliers are so keen on projecting?

Let's start with a bit of a background.  Apollo ...

It appears that United is in the midst is shuffling their routes and my April trip to Buenos Airies now departs from Newark instead of Washington, DC.   It appears that United is abandoning the route from Dulles. 

It appears the changes goes into effect in April.

I've been sitting back and watching the fallout from the rumored changes to Mileage Plus the last few weeks and the response from some folks has just been staggering.  

First, I believe the rumored changes are false.   The one thing United has demonstrated in their merger so far is that they are not undertaking any drastic changes as their plates are pretty full.   To impelement the list of changes is substantial and would go away from that ...