Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines award seats are now bookable on continental.com, meaning that 26/27 Star Alliance carriers can now be booked quickly and easily online. Only Ethiopian Airlines, which joined Star Alliance last December, is yet to be added.
Up until now, the use of the Air Canada/Aeroplan or ANA award search ...
So far, the term "disappointing" has been pretty prevalent with the merger between United & Continental. From changing the benefits for everybody from Premier members to Million Mile Fliers, it has been expected that there would be more cuts to the COmbined carrier.
Several months ago, I redeemed miles for a one-way ticket on Virgin Atlantic, in Upper Class, from London-Heathrow to Vancouver. I was delighted to be able to use some of my Continental miles, as VS had never been a ...
The other night I wanted to book a Star Alliance reward with my UNITED miles, so I called the 1K desk, I found the flights I wanted to get me from Manchester, UK (MAN) to Terceira, Azores (TER). I wanted to book MAN-FRA-LIS-TER and return, a reward within Europe for 25K miles. I wanted to route via FRA as my friend is going with me and he is based in FRA.
The UNITED agent told me routing via FRA would not work as I was “going to far out of the way” She added the ...
People often ask me how they can squeeze the most value out of their frequent flyer miles. I begin my answer by stating that maximizing monetary value and actual value are two very different things and ultimately there is no magic formula that tells you whether you are effectively using your miles.
I find the biggest waste of miles is to use them to purchase consumer products, like spending 200K miles on a $700 television set when those miles could have been used for two business ...
Flights on United Express are typically not anything special. Nearly all of my trips begin with a CRJ-200 hop to O'Hare. Occasionally I am able to mix that up, but there still aren't great options. I recently had a trip routing via Houston (IAH), which I got on the Skywest CRJ-700 that have done some longer flying from IAH. While these planes contain 6 first class seats and Economy plus, they are far from luxurious. First class catering consists of plastic cups ...
The most frustrating part of booking an award trip is when a telephone call to the airline is required. Some agents are quicker than others, but generally telephone awards just take a long time to book. I type this as I wait (33 minutes and counting) to speak to an Air Canada Aeroplan reservations to book an award. Thankfully, I can multi-task...
Earlier tonight, however, I set a new personal record by booking three complex awards with United Airlines in under 15 minutes. The agent ...
