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Ranking the Different American Airlines Business Class Seats

BySean February 19, 2016February 19, 2016

Product consistency? Who wants product consistency? Certainly that’s not the goal at the new American…. at least not as far as Business Class seats are concerned! Due to its merger with US Airways, an aging international fleet and seat supplier issues, American now features no less than nine (9) different international business class products. Nine….

Ten Tips for Planning an Oktoberfest Trip to Munich

BySean May 17, 2015January 1, 2024

My favorite trip of the year is always my annual pilgrimage to Munich for the World’s largest festival — Oktoberfest! This coming year will be the sixth year in a row that I’ve attended the Wiesn in Germany, so I’ve learned on the fly, but at this point, I think I know what I’m doing pretty…

American AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles Combine – What it means to you

BySean March 25, 2015March 25, 2015

On Tuesday, American Airlines announced that it would combine the legacy loyalty programs of American Airlines and US Airways on this coming Saturday, March 28. Previously, American had stated that these two programs would be merging sometime in the second quarter 0f 2015, so this puts them a little ahead of schedule. The newly combined…

My Last Hurrah as a United Premier 1K: A Weekend in Dubai

BySean March 11, 2015May 4, 2015

With my United Premier 1K status set to end at the end of January 2015, I wanted to make the most of it before it expired. That meant I had some Global Premier Upgrades to burn! United 1K members receive six Global Premier Upgrades (and two regional premier upgrades) that are good for an upgrade from economy…

2014 Year in Review

BySean January 15, 2015January 15, 2015

Another year has passed, and once again I was fortunate enough to travel a good bit. Now, I didn’t fly nearly as much as I did in 2013, but my 2014 effort ain’t too shabby! Nevertheless, my stats for this year were less than 2013 for a variety of reasons: In 2014, I focused on…

Pardon My Absence Over the Holidays

BySean January 14, 2015January 14, 2015

First of all, I want to apologize for not posting the last month. The last 30 or so days, my life has been completely and utterly swamped with moving, as I moved into Washington, DC from Arlington, VA. That, combined with the Holidays and work really left no time to blog in my spare time….

Revisited: How to Book an Around the World Trip with US Airways miles

BySean November 15, 2014November 15, 2014

Due to a ton of comments, questions and general interest on my last few posts about my First Class award flights around the World, I’m going to re-post the below post from a couple months ago where I detailed how to book one of these de-fact around the World tickets using US Airways miles (…

2015 Combined AAdvantage Loyalty Program Announced

BySean October 28, 2014January 1, 2024

This morning, American Airlines announced its 2015 AAdvantage Loyalty Program for the combined American and US Airways. As an American elite, the program remains largely un-changed, and that’s a great thing! With that said, there are a few changes to the program that I’ll highlight in this post. The theme of the whole deal is that…

Weekly Round-Up in the World of Points

BySean October 26, 2014October 26, 2014

Well, it’s been an insanely busy week for me, as I got back into the swing of things at work, and in life in general. As such, I didn’t get to write as much as I wanted to, so here is a weekly round-up of some of the goings-ons in the World of travel, points…

An Around the World Trip — Introduction

BySean October 1, 2014December 19, 2014

As I previously wrote, I will be embarking on a two-week journey around the World starting tonight. While I’m meeting twelve other friends in Munich, two of them will be joining me for our exploits in Asia. Though we all have somewhat different flights, we all did manage to get on the same THAI flight…