UPDATE (06/17/2022) This deal is now dead. I’m always ambivalent about reporting about these things, but United just added their new San Francisco to Brisbane to their booking tool and I am seeing upto 4 award seats on certain days this coming winter in business class: The award availability …
Lately springs have truly been full of “April Showers” and severe thunderstorms. As another bout of severe weather whips through the United States, I was reminded of my experience at Denver International Airport exactly one year ago, today.
So I finally got the chance to fly DeltaOne on a recent flight to Amsterdam and this pretty much allowed me to check off flying the trifecta of US Airlines from my bucket list. And I thought now was as good time as any to evaluate which of these three …
After nearly a month of waiting the day finally came for the start of our camping trip to Middle Earth. As I mentioned in the previous post, I booked myself in United Economy on the DFW-SFO-SYD routing using 40,000 United Miles. It’s been a while since I’ve flown a 15 …
I can’t tell you the number of times I have flown United (even in business) and found myself having to push through throngs of people huddled around the gate to find the Premier Access line. Often times priority boarding or my boarding group will have already boarded by the time …
United and Delta seem to be competing on business class flights out of London to Atlanta and Portland Oregon. Prices for the winter and spring travel seasons coming up are around $1700 roundtrip, which is as low as I have seen it as of late. There are a multitude of …
So yesterday my grandparents were flying from Newark to Midland (via Houston) and there flight kept getting delayed in Newark due to thunderstorms in the area. Eventually the flight got so delayed that they would miss their connection in Houston. Well it turns out that it was not only the …
I think it’s about time all commercial airlines begin to implement ‘new rules’ (pun fully intended) when it comes to accommodating customers with severe-allergies. Recently, singer Dua Lipa tweeted at United Airlines saying, that her sister’s nut allergy was overlooked and dismissed by their flight attendant who claimed: “[United] is …
Before we knew it, it was time to board our flight to Auckland. I was really looking forward to this flight since this would be my first time trying out United’s new Polaris hard product and that too on their new 777-300ER. For a good 4 months before my flight, …
On a recent trip to New Zealand I had the “pleasure” of visiting the incredibly packed United Global First Lounge at San Francisco’s Intl Terminal. The flight to Auckland left at an incredibly late hour when there were no other lounges available in the vicinity.
