I'm getting ready to leave on Thursday for my upcoming trip to Asia, Europe and the Middle East. There are a lot of new locations and hotels awaiting and I'll have lots of updates coming up here. But I can already share the strategy and planning stage. Instead of flying to Europe directly I always […]
During summer last year I spent 3 nights in Iceland and really got to like it! I used 25,000 United Miles for the flights to get to Reykjavik. I made the trip while I was in Germany and Lufthansa has direct seasonal flights to Reykjavik from Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin (but none from their hubs […]
Miles & More (Lufthansa's Frequent Flyer Program) is giving away a free Regus Businessworld Gold membership. If you are not a Miles & More member you can sign up here for free. The link was originally targeted for a Senator (Top Tier at LH) status but worked for me – already got my confirmation. The […]
Now that I have shown you the way to buy miles at Miles & More for under 1 cent per mile here's some more thinking on what to do with them. The Miles & More award chart is located here. It also lists which countries are part of which zone. The bad news first – […]
Here's my list of my favorite airline awards. 1) Fly from Alaska (even the remote Barrow, AK or Adak, AK) to Lima, Peru for 30,000 American Advantage miles One-Way in Business with a free stop-over in SFO/ LAX 2) Lufthansa & others from the US to Asia with a stop-over in Europe in First Class […]
Hector Garcia Just some quick update – I'm still giddy from burning 500k miles yesterday in a matter of minutes. It's for the whole family to Europe and for myself a side trip to Argentina and Brazil. I just got eticket numbers for these flights: – Lufthansa F (very likely new F) in December using […]
Singapore Airlines has built an image as service oriented luxury airline over the last 40 years. It is willing to put money to that statement and it is usually able to recoup the investment through higher fare prices especially in Business and First Class. Unfortunately this also means SQ is not having a very strong […]