In mid-January, Chase and United Airlines launched the best ever public welcome offer on the United℠ Explorer Business Card. This offer is only available through tomorrow, March 18, 2019, so if you've been considering this card but haven't yet applied,…
United has done a great job over the past year with opening new Polaris Lounges, which are their international premium cabin lounges: -- United opened their first Polaris Lounge Chicago in December 2016, which I've reviewed -- United opened their Polaris…
United MileagePlus is offering a bonus when you purchase miles through 11:59PM CT on Monday, March 25, 2019. United offers bonuses on purchased miles with some frequency, and when they do, the bonuses typically range between 50% and 100%. For example,…
Since Papeete Airport doesn't have any jet bridges, I boarded the 787 via stairs at the forward door. The crew seemed caught off guard that boarding began, and wasn't fully set up yet. This flight was operated by a Boeing 787-8, featuring 36 business…
Since January 15, 2019, United MileagePlus members haven't had access to award availability on Singapore Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, and Thai Airways. This wasn't just a temporary glitch, but was an intentional outage, and a memo was sent to reservations…
Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles & points for purchases you’d make anyway. Just for following a specific link you can earn bonus points in addition to the ones you’d earn anyway for credit card spend. The number…
This is a rumor I've been hearing for a while now from reputable sources, and in the past 24 hours I've seen several people mention this publicly, so I figured I'd share my take and what I know. Let's call this a rumor for now, since this kind of stuff…
American, Delta, United, and Hawaiian, have all just filed with the US Department of Transportation requesting additional flights to Tokyo Haneda. Let's look at what they're requesting, and how we got to this point. Tokyo has two airports -- Narita and…
United is in the process of reconfiguring their international fleet with new business class seats. As they do that they're also adding premium economy to longhaul planes, and are removing international first class from those planes that have the cabin.…
Welcome to my next trip report, covering a trip last December to Tahiti, to review Air Tahiti Nui's new business class, and to compare that to United' new Tahiti to San Francisco flight. I'll also be reviewing our Air Tahiti flights between Papeete and…
Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles & points for purchases you’d make anyway. Just for following a specific link you can earn bonus points in addition to the ones you’d earn for credit card spend. The number of bonus…
Yesterday United announced that they'll be adding 1,600 first and business class seats to their fleet. This is coming in the form of installing more first class seats on their A319s and A320s, configuring some 767s with additional business class seats,…
I've been fascinated by what has been going on at United the past year or so. United's stock is on fire (it has gone up about 50% over the past 12 months, in stark contrast to American's stock), following what was no doubt a low point a couple of years…
United Airlines has long offered DIRECTV on their fleet of Boeing 737s. Access to it has been free in first class, though in economy you've had to pay -- the cost has been $5.99 on flights of under two hours, and $7.99 on flights of two hours or longer.…
Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles & points for purchases you’d make anyway. Just for following a specific link you can earn bonus points in addition to the ones you’d earn anyway for credit card spend. Whenever I…
Well this flight certainly wins the "awful diversion of the day" award. Yesterday's United flight UA179 from Newark to Hong Kong is currently stranded in Goose Bay, Canada, and passengers haven't been allowed off the plane. The flight left Newark at…
Airline partnerships can be complicated, and this is especially true when it comes to redeeming miles on partner airlines. Different airlines take different approaches to releasing award space. Some airlines make more award seats available to members…
United has just revealed the details of their new employee uniforms, which they'll begin testing shortly. As customers, employee uniforms shouldn't matter to us. At least not directly. The way I see it, what's important in airline uniforms is that:
The United Polaris concept was introduced in December 2016, though the rollout was initially really slow. While they opened the Polaris Lounge Chicago as of that date, it was a few months before the first plane featured Polaris seats, and about 18 months…
A few days ago I wrote about a fascinating banner that United had up regarding their corporate accounts. The most interesting details were that Apple is United's largest global customer, and they account for $150 million of United's annual revenue. Furthermore,…
As most of you are probably well aware, airlines really make their money on corporate contracts, especially with companies that require a lot of international travel in premium cabins. Airlines sell $500 transatlantic economy tickets just to help cover…
