Ni hao from Beijing, where I'm spending a few days thanks to a cheap fare I booked on American. The weather is uncharacteristically nice here, with a perfect temperature and limited smog. That's a first for me in Beijing.
I'll be headed back to the US this week, and then back to China again (Shanghai, specifically), thanks to another cheap American Airlines fare I booked. Fortunately I upgraded all these flights to business class, so it's not that exhausting thanks to the fully flat beds on all my flights.
This has been an exciting week in the miles & points world, though not really in a good way. We finally learned the fate of the merger between Marriott and Starwood, there were rumors of Virgin America possibly being bought out by another airline, and Alaska greatly increased the cost of Emirates first class redemptions with no advance notice.
