by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Recent changes to oneworld member timetables:
AMERICAN AIRLINES:
Effective April 3 will debut 5x/week service between Miami(MIA)-Barcelona(BCN). Effective June 14, this route will be flown daily.
BRITISH AIRWAYS:
Effective May 1 service will resume between London(LHR)-Tripoli(TIP) 3x/week. Beginning Sept 2, service will be daily.
For Summer Timetable:
London(City)-Nice Will be reduced to 10x/week to daily.
London(LHR)–Geneva(GVA) increases from 8x/day to 9x/day.
London(LHR)– Istanbul(IST) increases from 11x/week to 14x/week.
London(LHR)–Munich(MUC) is reduced from 7x/day to 6x/day.
London(LHR)–Nice(NCE) is reduced from 51x/week to 49x/week.
London(LHR)-Rome(FCO) increases from 6x/day to 7x/day.
London(LHR)-Sofia(SOF) is reduced from 8x/week to daily.
London(LHR)-Venice(VCE) increases from 9x/week to 11x/week.
FINNAIR:
Effective March 9 has canceled Helsinki-Kiev. Previously this route operated 3x/week.
Effective February 29 has canceled Helsinki-Stuttgart. Previously this route operated 2x/day.
MALEV(Hungarian):
Effective with Summer Timetable:
Budapest(BUD)–Belgrade(BEG) is reduced from 9x/week to daily.
Budapest(BUD)–Bucharest(OTP) is reduced from 27x/week to 25x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Helsinki(HEL) is increased from 10x/week to 11x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Moscow(SVO) is reduced from 9x/week to 8x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Paris(CDG) is increased from 19x/week to 21x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Prague(PRG) is reduced from 14x/week to 13x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Stuttgart(STR) is increased from 11x/week to 12x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Zagreb(ZAG) is reduced from 19x/week to 18x/week.
Budapest(BUD)–Zurich(ZRH) is increased from 7x/week to 10x/week.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I received a targeted email last night from United inviting me to sign up for E-miles.com and thought to share it with you.
Basically it’s a marketing program that will send you emails asking you to review offers and take a survey afterwards. For your efforts you will earn between 5 and 25 miles per survey (other offers award more miles if you sign up or purchase something, depending on the offer).
Up until now I was enrolled as a result of an invitation from Delta and my impression has always been that you needed to be invited but that’s not the case. I was able to find the link that allows anyone to enroll and you can choose one of several frequent flyer programs for mileage credit. Participating Airline programs include: Continental, Delta, United, US Airways, Alaska Airlines and Frontier. Other options include earning points for Hilton HHonors and IHG Priority Club as well as Amazon Gift Cards.
You can visit this link to register for the program. Last year I was able to “earn” about 1200 Skymiles taking these surveys. I know its not a lot of miles, but they are easy to get. I signed up using a different email address than what I have for my Delta version of E-miles so I suspect you can enroll multiple times if you want to credit multiple frequent flyer or loyalty programs.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
As you may or may not remember, I went on a Mileage Run in December of 2011 to earn my MileagePlus (United) Premier Executive wings and have decided to go back for more!
Having had such a great experience the first time I was there, albeit for 24 hours, I decided to go back to take advantage of certain offers and benefits that will be expiring in the coming days and months. This time I will be there for an entire 48 hours so that will allow me to see the rest of the city (yeah right!!).
Last time, I had stayed at the Grand Hyatt on Hong Kong island and found it to be an amazing property and has become an instant favorite considering how well they took care of me.
On this trip I’m staying with Hyatt again but at their Regency property on the Kowloon side. The reason for the change is so that I can be based more in the heart of Kowloon and have easy access to explore all the markets and streets that are filled with vendors of all things and restaurants that you can count by the hundreds.
I was able to redeem one of my suite upgrades afforded me by having Diamond status with their Gold Passport program so I will have a view of the Harbor again, but from the other side. The Diamond status was a gift that was given by Hyatt to those who attended Star Mega Do 3 (SMD3). Being a Diamond member gives you 4 upgrades from any room to a Suite at participating properties, so since I still have a couple left, I figure to take full advantage of the benefit!
As I mentioned earlier, I decided on this Hong Kong run at the last minute to take advantage of bonus miles and promos that are available now, but will be expiring soon so I needed to get this done in January. Here’s the breakdown of the miles I’ll be earning with the bonuses:
Standard Miles including route minimums: 17,540
100% Elite Status Bonus with MileagePlus: 17,540
100% Bonus Miles for ORD-HKG-ORD flights: 15,540
On March 3, Premier Executive bonuses get cut to 50% and the 100% Bonus miles promo for the specific ORD-HKG-ORD flights expires January 31, so time was of the essence for me to get this trip in before these offers went away.
When I add up the total miles I’ll earn, it comes to a healthy 50,620. Considering what I paid for the ticket, it comes in at well under 3 cents per mile AND thanks to a friend’s gift of SWUs (thanks Pat!!), I will be sitting in business class for the long hauls. So a good deal got even better and I will be able to dig a little deeper into Hong Kong once I get there and do different things compared to my last visit.
If you’d like to see pictures and read about my previous trip, you can find the trip reports here and here.
I’ll be back from Hong Kong with a entirely new set of experiences to share.
