by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 21, 2011 | Industry News |
Late last week, Star Alliance member LOT Polish Airlines received permission from the Russian Government to fly over Russian Airspace, specifically over Siberia. This development is welcome news for LOT because it now opens the door for more efficient routes to Far East Asia. LOT has been looking at establishing service to Beijing, China and with the ability to fly over Siberia, this will almost certainly become a reality in 2012.
At this point LOT is waiting for final permission from Chinese Authorities regarding take off and landing slots at Beijing. Initially the route will be flown by their current long haul workhorse, the Boeing 767. I suspect as they begin receiving their inventory of Boeing 787’s, we’ll see important routes such as Warsaw-Beijing be serviced by the new airplanes.
The ability to shorten their routes by flying over Siberia will also improve their efficiencies on current routes such as their flights to Moscow and other Russian Federation destinations.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
What can I say, I am a sucker for having contests!
We’re having such great interest in the “Hong Kong Mileage Run” contest that I have decided to start another contest. LUFTHANSAFLYER.COM’s Airline Photo Contest will last through the end of this year and will have a WEEKLY WINNER along with an overall CONTEST CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER!
Why an Airline Photo Contest?
One of my absolute favorite things to do while traveling is Plane Spotting. For those unfamiliar with the term, it basically means looking at airplanes at airports or in the air and taking a picture of them. Being that I am only one person, I don’t have the time to go to every major airport around the World to look at airlines as often as I would like. I’m working on it, but there are a lot of airports I have not yet visited. In a good year, I get to go somewhere far and fun 6 to 8 times, the rest of the time I’m stuck in a small city, with a very boring airport (where the biggest plane tends to be an Airbus A320, and only 2 of those come in each day). I thought to have this contest so that everyone can share their best Airline Photos from around the world and have a chance to win something for it!
How the contest will work:
1. Photo entries should be emailed to LufthansaFlyer.Com (please keep file sizes to under 500k). Please include the location where the photo was taken, and an approximate date.
2. Each week’s deadline for entries is Midnight Saturday in my timezone (US Eastern Standard Time). Sundays at 12:00a start a new week for the contest.
3. The Winner will be announced on this site by Midnight Sunday and the winner will be contacted directly as well.
4. The weekly prize will be a $15.00 Apple I-Tunes Electronic Gift Certificate. For those of you not using an American based I-Tunes site, don’t worry, you will be eligible to receive and use the Gift Certificate. There’s just an extra step that needs to takes place.
5. Each WEEKLY WINNER will qualify for the CONTEST CHAMPIONSHIP. I’ll take all the weekly winners, then pick 1 Winner from that group. That means that there will be 6 weekly winners that will then compete for the Grand Prize, a $50 I-tunes Electronic Gift Certificate.
Fine print items:
1. The picture needs to be yours. Not professonal images that are from google searches, airline website galleries or from sites such as Airliners.Net or JetPhotos.net unless you can PROVE they are yours.
2. The picture has to be of an airline’s exterior and have the majority of the plane in the picture.
3. You can only enter 2 images a week.
4. You can win multiple times over the 6 weeks.
5. I will be the sole judge of all entries, and my decision will be final.
As I start to receive pictures, I’ll create a separate gallery for each week so that everyone can see each other’s photos. I’ll update the gallery each night, so please check back often to see everyone’s efforts. As long as there is room, I’ll keep expanding the gallery so that all the photos can be displayed. I’m hoping that we get a lot of people involved so that we can enjoy each other’s best airline photos. So feel free to share this with your friends on twitter, facebook, etc. etc.
Good Luck and Start Sending In Your Pictures!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I had this website (www.Udustats.com)in my bookmarks and had forgotten about it until scrolling through them earlier today. A friend of mine from MilePoint (thanks Pat!) shared this link with me so that I could see what success people were having when it came to their upgrades clearing on United Flights. The database doesnt have an extensive history but there is enough data to show you what the trends have been.
A nice feature of the site is that it sorts upgrade clearance success based on your Elite Status with United so you can see how well each elite level has done in terms of upgrade clearing.
The site is easy to use and does not require any sign up or membership (you can post anonymously). I share this because I would like to see more United flyers add their data so that we can have more accurate and up to date information.
This site will help you see what the upgrade history has been on certain flights which in turn may help you build an itinerary that includes flights with better odds of upgrade sucess.
Let me know if you have any questions about how to use the site.
