Before I begin sifting through the mountain of choices this promotion offers, please understand one thing. ONCE YOU SELECT YOUR OFFER, YOU CANNOT CHANGE IT. I suggest you do your homework (reading this blog is a good start) before you register. You have until June 30, 2012 to analyze your summer travel schedule and determine which of the 11 Nice Choice offers will provide you the most reward. Don’t worry, your activity will be applied retroactively to the promotional ...
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 ...
Here is a quick “tip” to look around for reward nights in the Hilton system. There is something going on with the reward points needed for a free night. Hilton just started the options to book “Premium” rooms with points. Many problems have been reported about not finding standard rooms any more at some high end Hiltons around the south pacific mostly. With the only rooms with reward nights were running well over 150,000 points per night. These hotels are a Hilton ...
This is good news for anyone who likes the Star Alliance, now there are some new ways to burn some miles in Europe.
SAS launched 17 new routes this year. Next March SAS will launch flights between Copenhagen and Shanghai.
From what I'm told here are the new routes that SAS will offer:
New routes from Copenhagen:
Kaliningrad. March 25 .
Katowice. March 26
Malaga. March 31.
Split. May 12.
Dubrovnik. ...
Ok well I’m impressed! I think I could have found the love of my life.. ok that might be a little too far but this UA phone agent went above and beyond.. and found something I did not even see when I was looking. Now that is good.
I always do my homework and know what flights I want when booking a reward. I check out the reward seats that are out there, have the airline I want to fly with the flight number.. I put the reward puzzle together then make the call. I also have my ...
So when I was looking to book one of my, Europe-to-Europe Star Alliance reward bookings, I found a way to fly from Manchester, UK to Istanbul, Turkey all on wide-body aircraft, all on Asian Airlines, all with reward space. So let the fun begin!
If you do not know my MO on booking rewards in Europe, I want to get the most out of my 25K UNITED miles. I love the 24 hour “max connection time” rule… this allows for a nice day in a city. (note that when staying in one ...
