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Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my upcoming travel plans. In February, I booked a trip with Qatar Airways from Philadelphia to Kyiv in business class. The trip represented fantastic value, but also was an incredible opportunity to fly in Qatar Airways business class again. Even…
With the COVID-19 pandemic, many travelers have been trying to figure out what to do with previously booked travel. For the most part, airlines have been fairly generous in allowing customers to move travel plans to a later date. However, getting refunds, especially cash refunds, for non-refundable travel continues to be a challenge. That makes…
For the past several weeks, as frequent fliers sit grounded at home, many of us have been wondering what will happen to their beloved frequent flyer programs in 2020. Until a week ago, that question remained largely unanswered. There was of course plenty of speculation about what airlines would do based on past events, but…
One of the most frustrating things about traveling is trying to stay connected. For years I’ve had T-Mobile One phone service which offers free international cell data. However, there have been a few times where I’ve arrived in a new country only to find out that T-Mobile doesn’t offer free data there. The other alternative…
Historically airlines frequent flyer programs were all about one thing; miles. Since as long as frequent flyer programs have been around, these programs have always rewarded those customers who flew the most with a particular airline. In the past, the way airlines ranked their customers was based on one single metric and that was “butt…
Once again, just like that, winter is once again here. Temperatures have dropped, snow is falling, and suddenly, airline travel has become significantly worse. Winter brings all sorts of disruptions to airline travel plans. With winter come longer airline delays, cancelations, and missed flights. Everything related to airline travel seems to take longer in winter.…
While I realize it’s still several weeks before the year’s halfway point, in a certain way, for me, the year is already well more than halfway over. Already this year I’ve earned 92,000 Elite Qualifying Miles and just over $13,000 Elite Qualifying Dollars with the American Airlines AAdvantage program. That’s just shy of the 100,000…
To get back home from a recent trip to London I decided to book an extremely inexpensive economy class fare from London to Chicago on American Airlines. The flight I booked was on American’s 787 in economy class. Believe or not until then I had never flown a long-haul flight on the Dreamliner in economy…
Well, once again I’ve done it. For the second year in a row I’ve officially qualified for American Airlines AAdvantage Executive Platinum elite status. Although the qualifications this year were the same as last year I must say that this year was much more difficult. Last year I had the luxury of flying 60,000 miles…
Earlier this year British Airways announced that the airline would be flying the massive Airbus A380 between Chicago and London. This aircraft shift is part of a summer seasonal service which has since ended. Thankfully, the A380 service is expected to return in April 2019. While British Airways was flying the A380 to Chicago I…
