My first year of law school is over in two weeks and before my summer job starts, I want to squeeze in a UA award trip to Thailand and Japan--and perhaps even mainland China. As a backup, I also have BD, AA, BA, and DL miles to burn.

My last award redemption was an Air Canada, TAP, Lufthansa, SAS, US Airways combination in Business Class. While Business Class is great, I'd love to try out Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines in First Class, as well as re-visit Lufty's First Class ...

This week we continue our award redemption series by discussing Star Alliance carriers including United Airlines, US Airways and Continental Airlines.  In this episode we discuss:

American Airlines new stand by policy JAL's final decision to stay with OneWorld Delta and US Airways proposed swap slot United Airlines award levels, website issues, and evil StarNet blocking US Airways award levels and availability Continental's award ...

Last week I promised I would provide more details on United's new one-way award program.

Simply put, I like the new program.

Per my conversation with a reservations agent, stopovers will still be permitted on United roundtrips and Star Alliance awards--for now at least.

This means that in addition to the benefits of being able to book a one-way award (when an outbound might be prohibitively expensive but the return flight cheap, for example) we will still be able add ...