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Bumps and Upgrades: A Great Day of Flying

I will be leaving for South America from Los Angeles Monday morning and needed to get from Philadelphia to Los Angeles this weekend. Naturally, I wasn't going to fly PHL-LAX!

Last night I was scheduled to fly from PHL-IAD-TPA to position me for a long day of flying today. After spending ...

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Star MegaDO Day 2: We're walking, we're walking...

 

Upon arrival into Frankfurt, we wandered down to the Lufthansa Welcome Lounge which was a nice breath of fresh air.  The Welcome Lounge has 28 showers for patrons to use.  I decided to skip the shower and get a bite to eat.  The food selection included fresh frutis, ...

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The Star MegaDO Day 1: Let the insanity start!

 

As some may have noticed, I've been a bit quiet this week and with good reason.  This week marked an amazing event, the The Star MegaDO. 

In a nutshell, this was an event that was hosted by Flyertalk, United, Continental, Lufthansa, SAS and Airbus.   It ...

First Lufthansa A380 Flight will be FRA-JFK! I want on it!

FRA is my home airport, and I really want to be on the first A380 Lufthansa flight. We know today that it will be FRA-JFK, but do not know a date or what flight. LH has 2 non-stops a day FRA-JFK now served by a B747 & A333. At times both flights are on a B747.

Wolfgang Mayrhuber ...

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Upgrd 43: Club World City Service and Star Alliance Europe

This week we recorded our podcast shortly after Ben arrived on BA 4 - the new Club World Service from JFK to LCY. Ben was comped a round trip by British Airways as a travel blogger to report on this new offering. In addition we were joined by Damian, a frequent United and Lufthansa ...

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Circumventing United Airline's StarNet Blocking

Award inventory is shared among Star Alliance carriers in what is known as the StarNet system.

United Airlines, in an attempt to save money and funnel travelers to flights on UA metal has instituted a system of StarNet blocking in which they selectively filter out certain flights from ...

Pursue MMer Status on United or Dual Star Gold Status?

I'm up to nearly 200,000 EQMs this year on United and have some domestic trips in paid First Class coming up next month. With more than enough miles to qualify for elite status for 2010,  I am having trouble deciding whether to credit my miles to United or to re-qualify for Gold status on ...

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