United is giving away 500,000 United miles with their United MileagePlus shopping Half-A-Million Miles sweepstakes. To enter, log into the United MileagePlus shopping portal and register between now and September 30, 2012. How To Register Register to enter the 500,000 United mile sweepstakes You’ll receive one entry via this method but you can enter more…
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North of Norway – Introduction and Trip Planning
My recent trip to Norway was a trip of firsts. For me, each trip I take inspires the next. Last year I made it up to a respectable 71 degrees North to chill with a Polar Bear in Barrow which inspired me to go further north. Longyearbyen, Norway at 78 degrees North, is the northernmost…
United Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Denver After Bird Hits Plane
According to this Denver 7 News report, a bird hit United flight 1475 during descent Tuesday. The flight departed Dallas and the plane struck a bird upon descent into Denver International Airport. Check out the damage to the nose of the plane from the picture provided by 7 News.
Trip To New York For 17k Miles With Three Airlines And A Bus
A few months ago we took a short weekend trip up to the Freddies. If you aren’t familiar, the Freddies is where the Loyalty Program Winners are crowned. This year the organizers picked Newark Airport Renaissance hotel as the venue. When we found out we had a ticket at the last minute we had to…
United Manually Cancelling 4 Mile First Class Awards To Asia
A reader wrote in today to let me know he’s seeing a cancellation message from United for his 4 Mile First Class awards to Asia. Message From United Is Showing Cancelled 4 Mile Award Ticket Your itinerary cannot be retrieved because it has been cancelled. You may use the portion of your ticket that has…
Free 1,000 United Miles Without MileagePlus Card
The MileagePlus Shopping portal is offering 1,000 MileagePlus miles for MileagePlus Credit Card registrations. But you can earn the 1,000 miles even if you don’t have the MileagePlus Credit Card. The terms and conditions state that “you must register your MileagePlus Credit Card in the MileagePlus Shopping program during the time of this promotion”, but…
Bump Credit Card Bonus – 25k + $50 Credit From Chase United Card
Confirmations are coming in that Chase is bumping their United Mileage Plus Explorer Card offers up to 65,000 miles and a $50 statement credit. Yesterday Alex shared how he signed up for the United Mileage Plus Explorer Card from Chase and received a $50 statement credit along with the 65k offer. If you have the…
Lufthansa First Class to Norway
As correctly (and quickly) guessed by readers yesterday, I am pulling out the winter coat and heading north again for summer. Each trip I take inspires the next. Last year I made it up to a respectable 71 degrees North to chill with a Polar Bear in Barrow which inspired me to go further north.…
United Phantom Availability To Seychelles Update
A few weeks ago we shared an option to get to the Seychelles with Qatar Airways in business class. Since our 2009 trip to the Seychelles we’ve always wanted to go back. So when we found availability on Qatar Airways we got a little bit excited. We found the availability on United’s website and booked…
Phantom United Partner Availability To Seychelles
We really enjoyed our trip to the Seychelles in 2009. Our first flight to the Seychelles was on SkyTeam, but we reported that this option no longer exists. So we’ve kept an eye on award availability for our return trip. We got excited when United bookings became available through Qatar Airways and Ethiopian Airways. We…
Up to 25,000 Bonus Miles Offer from United
I received the following targeted email from United today. I logged into a website called United Map Your Dreams and received my offer. The deal basically offers bonus miles based on the number of round trips flown on United over the next couple months. In my case, 4 round trip flights earns 25,000 bonus miles…
Fly Away With 250,000 United Miles Promotion
Log into United Mileage Plus Shopping to win one of six prizes totaling 250,000 United Miles. Register and participate from April 11th, 2012 through May 4th, 2012 to win a chance at United Miles. How To Register Register for the promotion through this link Prizes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: 100,000 United Air Lines MileagePlus® award…
Changes To New 50,000 Offer Begin Tomorrow
A few weeks ago, I mentioned how the sky is not falling with the Chase credit card sign up bonuses. We shared how the New Ink Bold offer was staying at 50,000 points even though the Sapphire Preferred offer was being lowered to a 40,000 point offer. The current offer will be removed on Wednesday,…
United Explorer Card Bonus Available After Continental Card Conversion
The United Airlines (UA) and Continental (CO) merger caused a number of issues this year. One issue being that the conversion of the CO card to a UA Explorer card was reported to prevent customers from receiving the UA Explorer card sign up bonus. The dire warnings were abound. We are happy to share that…
Mrs Weekly Flyer’s Next Credit Card And Reasoning
Mrs Weekly Flyer takes a practical approach to selecting her credit cards. I on the other hand, focus on getting it in and keeping it in my wallet. She knows that credit card sign up bonuses play a big part in our ability to take dream vacations to places like the Seychelles, Paris, Mauritius, Bora Bora…
Releasing My Returns – Points And Miles Game
Readers have called on me to release my returns for a while, so I’m releasing them just like Mitt Romney. But I’m not running for anything, except maybe just a mile or two. In an effort to provide transparency and allow readers to follow along as points and miles are earned, I’m releasing my points…
Continental Currency Winners Announced
Last week marked the day when Continental and United frequent flyer programs have officially become one. We ran a promotion to give away our last Continental Currency coupons in exchange for your best, and worst, Continental Airlines memories. Many of you responded through the comments and we received a few tweets and Facebook wall posts…
Only 1 Hour Left To Win Continental Drink Coupons
There is only one hour left to win one of three Continental Currency coupons. We are giving our last three Continental Currency coupons away to remember Continental Airlines. Since the Continental and United frequent flyer programs officially became one last week, these coupons are reported to be honored on United flights. Or you could just…
Continental Memories To Win Drink Coupons
Today marks the day when Continental and United frequent flyer programs have officially become one. To honor this day, we are giving away the last of our Continental Currency coupons, the best part is the coupons never expire. Continental Currency Coupon Give Away Three lucky winners will be selected and given a Continental currency coupon.…
Earn Double Points Or Miles With Priority Club Rewards
I finally received my 2x points or miles offer in an email from Priority Club. I like staying at InternContinental hotels which is part of the Priority Club hotels program and sign up for all of their promotions. They also announced a Q1 promotion you can see here via DealsWeLike. Below is the double points…