Well what started out to be a simple mileage run from London to Denver on UNITED, turned out to be a bit more exciting. I booked the following flights:

LHR-ORD-DEN

with a return

DEN-EWR-LHR

I was using two systemwide upgrades to confirm all the flight including the CO flights, I was looking forward to checking out the CO Business First product.

Then the forecast was not looking good to fly thru New York, so I called UNITED and got rerouted via ORD on ...

Grrr… This is annoying… and it's 100% my fault. Well, one could say that it's the fault of complicated fare class requirements along with obscure rules for upgrades with a partner airline, but in reality, the rules were there, and I didn't check close enough.

We're off to Europe for a couple weeks, and we're flying on an open-jaw economy revenue ticket, purchased through United Airlines, to get there.

We're starting our trip in Stockholm, and we're flying ...

In traditional United fashion, a plethora of "good" news is following the leak of upcoming Mileage Plus enhancements.

The highlights:

• The 767-200s and Domestic 767-300s are being coverted to with the new BusinessFirst seat.
• Economy Plus is rolling out on the 767-400, the first one will return to service this fall will include the new BusinessFirst seats as well as Economy Plus. 
• First class and Economy Plus is being added to all Q400s
• Channel 9 is coming to the Continental fleet, the first of which will be the first 767-400 that returns to service in the fall.
• Bigger overhead bins on the AIrbus 319 and 320s.
• Streaming in-flight video and WiFi on the 747-400s.
• And the long awaited P.S. annoncement, which will now be two cabin with 26 of the new BusinessFirst seat and also introducing standard Economy into these planes along with the existing Economy Plus.

It was a pretty quiet morning, until I received the latest merger update email from United. While I was hoping to hear more about the potential changes to MileagePlus, I was still pleasantly surprised to see that United will begin to improve the on-board product, by investing a substantial amount of money into the fleet, and adding streaming IFE (Inflight Entertainment) to the United 747 fleet. Below are the rest of the changes.

Improved Long-Haul Comfort with More Flat-Bed Seats than ...

Last night I received the following text message from my brother:

Dad and mom went to United Mileage Plus promotion at the Americana. Mother won two RCC passes. Dad won 25000 mp miles.

While I don't believe in luck, if there was such a thing, my dad would be the luckiest man alive. It seems like he wins every contest or drawing he enters and he scored again big at the Americana at Brand in Glendale, California last night. I keep telling him to buy a lottery ...

I recently requested a complete printout of all my flights credited to Mileage Plus.  It has been 20 years since my first credited flight on United, and with the uncertainity of the merger, I figured I should do this before its too late or this feature gets 'enhanced' away through the merger. 

I've had people tell me about this feature, and I finally decided to do it for myself.  The process is summarized in this Flyertalk ...