OzFest 2012 (Canberra) - Introduction Lufthansa First Class, Denver to Frankfurt Lufthansa's First Class Terminal and LH901, Frankfurt to London Hilton Paddington Station London to Sydney, the Long Way, in United Business Sydney's Qantas Club & The Q400 to Canberra The Park Hyatt Canberra Touring Canberra Canberra's Qantas Club & The Beginning of a 13,000 Mile Journey

Just four days before I was scheduled to depart for Oz Fest, I visited United.com to see if there were ...

For the past year, we've been seeing more airports coming online with the TSA Pre-Check program, which allows certain airline customers (elites), and members of a trusted traveler program (Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI) to get the chance to use an expedited security lane when flying on a qualifying domestic itinerary. We've discussed Pre-Check several times on UPGRD, with information on the start of the program, steps you can take to ensure you receive pre-check access, the expansion of the ...

One of the things I love about my job is that every now & then I can get out and see some art.  Lately that has been far too infrequent for me, but luckily a few airports have surprised me with their exhibitions!

I asked my Facebook & Twitter friends where they like to see art while passing through airports and while a few said they hardly notice, others have also appreciated the airports' efforts in satisfying our cultural palletes!

Before heading out on ...

If you ever want to feel uneasy about the sanity of people permitted in airports, just google "Denver Airport" and read the crazy claims people have come up with about the art there.  By now most of us have heard the crazy theorey of William Tapley that the airport is Evil, Satanic & full of Phalic Symbols. Here's a new one that I discovered...

Denver Airport and the Murals are Symbols of the New World Order's intent to conduct a mass genocide.

"Any traveler ...

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 ...

A quick hello from LAX. I’m back state side for a week or so and had time to squeeze in a quick mileage run. Wednesday I did IAD-DEN-LAX in UNITED first and the return was the same routing for the next day. I booked this trip back in March and put some regional upgrade certs on the booking that cleared at that point. I did not want to do this run in Y, and most all of my flights are international so the regional certs just expire or I give them away.

Wednesday was an easy day, ...