The easiest airline points to earn in Canada is Aeroplan, by a mile. However, they do levy fuel surcharges on several airlines including Air Canada, Lufthansa, Thai Airways, and others. This can run to absurd levels in some cases. If you want to fly with those carriers, it may be a better option to use…
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United Devaluation Nov 2017 – And My Thoughts
Another United devaluation is occurring, this time on November 1, 2017. Most star alliance business class award and first class awards, with the exception of Europe, is increasing 5-10k miles. To view the latest prices, see their revised chart here. There aren’t too many miles in my United account. I assume that’s the same for…
Fantastic Transcontinental Business Class Space!
As you may or may not know, United decided to move their premium service flights from JFK to EWR airport, as it facilitates flight connections to United’s destinations better. This starts October 25th. These flights are one of the more comfortable ways to get coast-to-coast, featuring fully flat business class seats in a 2-2 configuration.…
United Devaluation Postponed!!!
As you may well know the United devaluation is supposed to take effect in a few hours, BUT United has just posted on FT: Hi everyone, With the updated MileagePlus award chart about to take effect, I have a couple updates and clarifications to share (which a few of you have already noticed): The new…
United Award Accelerator devalued!
I wrote about the United miles accelerator a few months ago, which allowed you to essentially purchase miles on a reservation for 2.1-2.2 cents. However, it seems that United has devalued the rate at which you purchase miles through their Award accelerator. I looked up three separate reservations today that I already had and they were…
Aeroplan changes Earnings on United Airlines
Aeroplan is changing the earnings on tickets on United Airlines. The new chart looks like this: The changes are as follows: Mileage Accumulation Changes 1 Effective for travel April 1, 2014, earn 150% in booking classes J, C, D, Z or P. For travel until March 31, 2014, earn 125%. 2 Effective for travel April 1, 2014, earn 125%…
Updates from United on the Award Devaluation
This morning I was one of the first bloggers to write about the significant devaluation of United Miles and their new award charts. United has also release some clarification on Flyertalk about the new award charts: Originally Posted by mitchmu Do these rates apply for tickets purchased after Feb 1 or for travel after Feb 1?…
HUGE UNITED DEVALUATION
This is awful. Expected, but it seems the severity of the changes are absolutely awful. United has revised award chart prices for Star Alliance and United metal awards. http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/news/United-Award-Chart-02-01-14.pdf For reference, here is the old award chart. Here is the new star alliance chart: There’s a lot of numbers, but Europe in Business goes from 50k…
25% Bonus Hotel Transfer Promo to United
United is offering a transfer promotion for conversion of hotel points to United Miles where you can earn a 25% bonus on transferred miles to a maximum of 20,000. The hotel partners include: Wyndham Marriott Hilton Shangri-La IHG Club Carlson Hertz Hyatt Choice Privileges Transfers must be initiated before November 30. The only transfers that might…
United Honoring Zero base fare tickets!
Yesterday I wrote about the fares that United posted yesterday. They are honouring the fares, as per their Facebook page: Very consumer friendly move although the cynical part of me says that they honoured after realizing it would be more costly to manage the outrage/DOT/reaction if they did decide to cancel the tickets than actually…
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