Interesting that you bring up lounge access. Over the weekend, I decided I would credit all my transcon travel in 2010 to DL because of lounge access. Today, I found out that I can get E+ and lounge access via BD(but no EUA) if I choose to fly p.s. instead. Decisions, decisions...

Yep. I considered booking away from TG, because taxes/fees were £191 (:rolleyes:). However, I want to bag an A340-500. Fingers crossed that they don't axe the BKK-LAX route before March.

My alternative was PER-SIN-NRT-ORD, on a combo of SQ, NH and UA (new UA seats on NRT-ORD), and taxes were much lower, but I want that A345, despite the TG C seats being a bit :rolleyes: for an 8,200 mi. flight.

No, the website is correct. The interpretation isn't. ;)

The note was for RDM elite bonuses. And that is changing either on Jan 1 or it is already done. But the site was definitely correct in terms of how that worked.

I went with the BD status match due to:

A. lounge access and
B. the occasional ability to fly an abusive itinerary (need to get the BNA-IAH on UA/US to "work" for me).

:confused: Something going on with the casinos?

Will give you time to chat up the FAs.

Depends on what you intend to use your miles on. if you want to use them for other *A carriers, particularly in C and F, then go with CO. UA is still Starnet blocking.

Otherwise, it may be beneficial to go with UA for the SWUs and CR-1s.

Already done as of 27 October. Just checked co.com. ^

Just happened to be a good day for me to lock in some gains. I do also need to start figuring out my turkeys (for tax purposes) as I don't have any rollover losses.

I'm guilty on the BP thing, absolutely.

Is it wrong to expect an FFP number to be in a reservation after calling the relevant partner airline pretty much only to ensure that fact? I think not.

And, for the record, I'm not blaming CO. I blame the partner phone agents who seemed to not care about putting said number into said res. CO has to post the miles, sure, but if they don't know to I can't blame them. I'm cranky with UA and LH.

Thanks. I'm being a good boy and waiting until I can have the ticket researched.

Or keep 'em forever. Kind of a low tech FM.

There's an American Folk Art form called cigar-band bowls: the underside of a clear glass bowl covered with cigar bands, secured by lacquer. One could do the same kind of thing with boarding passes. Used to be, people collected match books from their travels. Why not preserve boarding passes?

Thermal printing.

A point, there. You could always get it replaced with the hard stuff once through security at a PC club or service point. Pain, but all artists suffer for their art. ;)

Used to be people also made chains out of bubble gum wrappers ;)

There is a room in a restaurant at the Arizona Biltmore (ex Wrigley estate, partially) that is completely done in the old-dimensions Wrigley's gum foil.