This is a continuation of the “vacation run” – a 50/50 mileage run / vacation my wife and I took to Cairo in January, 2015. The first post was: Etihad flight from Washington to Abu DhabiWe were only transiting in Abu Dhabi (AUH), but we had the chance to see Etihad’s beautiful new lounge business lounge (we…
This trip was 50% vacation and 50% mileage run. My wife and I had wanted to make it to Egypt, in fact, we had wanted to visit Egypt on our honeymoon, many moons ago, although that didn’t pan out. No regrets there, the honeymoon was perfect, and in line with family tradition–in Bermuda–I highly recommend…
Historically, Southwest has had more simple frequent flyer programs. Back under Rapid Rewards 1.0 they kept it so simple you only needed credits, which had no linkage to fare prices, segments, or distance flown. Rapid Rewards 2.0 and 2.1 still stuck with a simple approach of fixed earning values and fixed redemptions-just with 3 tiers/levels.…
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Early today, a FlyerTalk thread popped up with a pretty phenomenal United premium fare from the United Kingdom to many places in some cases for as little as $85 USD. Perhaps the most amazing thing to me, was how fast things played out. It hit the blogs quickly, I think, starting with Gary Leff’s View from…
My last United flight to Las Vegas and back was nothing special to write about. Despite getting one upgrade to Economy Plus from Cleveland to Chicago, I ended up in regular Economy on the leg from Chicago to Las Vegas. The way back wasn’t any more pleasant. After flying from Las Vegas to Houston overnight…
This trip was at least 18 months in the making. It also went through varying destinations. We started out with the desire to do an around the world trip, then it became a “quick experience of Asia” trip, with visits to Taiwan and Malaysia (still haven’t made it to either), then we had to delay it.…
Consider for a moment, that you need to get to Cairo from Washington, DC. Here are your options: Your shortest path option is Washington to New York to Cairo (Pink) Slightly longer, is flying Washington to Abu Dhabi to Cairo (Red) Longer still is flying Washington to London to Frankfurt to Doha to Cairo (Gray)…
Let me be clear from the onset: I am not a Delta guy. In fact, I’ve flown like 5 Delta segments in my life, 4 of the 5 were on awards.To recap what others, like One Mile at a Time have written about: Delta has pulled their award charts. The general sentiment is that Delta…
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