United’s web site – long a frustration for travellers when the new United replaced a perfectly good one with the one from Continental – is getting a make over. They’ve added one feature missing from the old one – they have removed the discrimination around upgrade requests. Now you don’t have to live in the US to search for one.
Sometimes passengers surprise you. It’s just this trip that they did this in a bad way. Was I threatened by one passenger with revenge for not allowing her to sit with her friend, and why did another demand to know if I smoked. It’s the incredible weirdness of travel, at least that is what I am telling myself.
Business Class from Europe is not very often cheaper than Coach but for selected dates in the summer and later in the year, the business fare from Dublin is cheaper than the Economy fare from London. Get buying.
The Amazon web site pretty much lets you buy anything you like. Amex has now partnered with amazon.co.uk to allow UK members to use their points on savings at the online retailer. Not terribly good value, but you seem to be able to use any amount you wish to redeem. No need to match to the nearest 500 or 1000 points.
Significant changes to reward levels have been (quietly) announced by Club Carlson. Some are going from 44,000 to 70,000 points per night, and coupled with the removal of the 2-for-1 offer for US credit card holders, it pretty reduces the value of the awards at high end properties to nothing.
For the longest time you have needed two reference for every AA ticket if it had US flights in the booking. It seems that this has now stopped, making life easier.
BA has already announced that it will be withdrawing it’s own scheme for Small and Medium businesses in the USA, called OnBusiness. This is…
I arrived early yesterday evening from Madrid on Iberia to JFK’s Terminal 7. Zipping past the queue to go to the GE kiosks I…
Another sale launched this past week makes Dublin again an attractive place for Europeans looking for good value tickets to the USA in premium…
I have used UBER about a dozen times, all in the USA, and typically from large airports to my hotel or for early morning…
BA has issued a further update to the changes they announced on Friday to the OnBusiness Small and Medium business rewards scheme. I reviewed…
The significant pending snow storm destined for the East Coast of the US is leading BA to proactively cancel flights today. You can rebook…
