Evening all, My wife and I are flying to Venice on one booking reference, which has offered me a £48 upgrade to CE. Then my brother, his wife and two kids are also on the same flight on their own booking reference although I paid. They also have been offered the same upgrade. I called BA earlier today to upgrade all of us but when she upg... Read More

I've been noticing something over the years, which I think I've just confirmed. One can delay (or lessen) a payment due by making a large charge and then immediately refunding it. Here is my example: [list] [*]My payment due (Oct 1) is ~$17,000 [*]Two days ago, I made a charge for ~$5,000 [*]Yesterday, I refunded that purchase, and I got the ~$5,00... Read More

I understand that Alaska appears to have implemented a no "U" space availability at all in the system outside of 24 hours, but I guess I'm just in disbelief. Can anyone find any route whatsoever with "U" space available in the future? For either a Gold, Gold 75k, or Gold Upgrade Guest Certificate holder? If you do, please share. Am I misinterpr... Read More

I was just wondering about how I would be able to renew my Gold by May 2021 when I got this email: [quote]Double reward from Miles+BonusBook now your flights up to September 2021 and earn double award and tier miles, so that you can manage your tier effectively, despite any changes in your flight activity. Ηοw to benefit f... Read More

Need to get to Japan in November and looking at EWR to TYO. Using 11/10 as an example and have a few questions. It looks like they have flights to HND and NRT leaving 10 minutes apart. 1) What are the odds of those both actually going out and how far out has UA been updating schedules w/ COVID-related reductions? 2) If I book a MUA to PN clas... Read More

With the 4Q Hyatt promo(s), many people are considering long stays in a cheap Hyatt for status nights. Just spitballing here, maybe a bunch of us could pick the same hotel with overlapping dates, and help one another with swiping in-and-out so as to avoid getting involuntarily checked out by the hotel. There are several cat 1s not far from O... Read More

Now that Delta has matched AA in offering Residual Value credit, will UA match? Is so when? I've got a dozen flights this Fall to watch sporting events that won't be accepting spectators. It's such a pain to insure the new tickets are more expensive than the canceled itineraries. I'd really like to see UA match the competition! Thoughts on w... Read More

We have a Thai holiday booked for late October and November. BA9 is booked on a voucher (from a voucher!), which all seemed viable last July. When checking with Thai travel sites and friends we meet up with it seems travel to Thailand seems severely restricted for visitors like us. I read that medical tourists, film makers, diplomats and ex-pats wi... Read More

frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2020/09/marriott-to-expand-bonvoy-guest-loyalty-program-with-new-benefits/ I just saw this: Bonvoy is to *add* new benefits benefits by partnering with Ascenda: more ways to earn and redeem points. Has anyone seen any details? In fact, what is Ascenda? [url=http://frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2020/09/marriott-to-... Read More

The O'Hare website claims that the MCT is 40 minutes. My wife has a transfer from a BA flight to a United domestic next year: Covid permitting. The BA flight is scheduled tol arrive at 1845L with the departure at 2105L, so 2 hrs 20 mins. When we last transitted, that time through EWR, we had 2hrs 42 mins to transfer, assuming everything was o... Read More

I know this has been asked a lot but now we are heading very quickly to the end of September do we think there is much chance that the option to take a FTV for Oct flights is going to become a possibility? I’ve got a flight to Beijing towards the end of October which is still surprisingly selling on BA but I def won’t be doing the trip. Is it just... Read More

I saw two $1 refund/credits from AA to my credit card. But I can’t figure out why. Anyone else receive the refund and know why? Read More

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Looking at hotels in the FRA area I came across this: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g187337-d4876062-Reviews-Mercure_Hotel_Frankfurt_City_Messe-Frankfurt_Hesse.htmlacc The Mercure Fra... Read More

Hi - this question is out of curiosity and to educate myself. Admittedly I have not been on an airplane since February but I've been in plenty of restaurants and had the pleasure of reading trip reports during this time. It seems that most U.S. airlines (and many others) have resorted to serving meals in wrapped containe... Read More

Hello, Here is my issue, that is probably shared by other people. I am from Europe, subject to US travel Ban Proclamation 9984 (Schengen Area), but this problem obviously apply to other people coming from a country that is being suspended from entering in the United States. As stated on the title, I am a non immigrant, so I do not have an US... Read More

Can someone explain why the taxes and fess are different on these flights. Thanks! Read More

I'm interested in trying to compare the published policies (and actual practices if there's enough data) across various hotel chains regarding face mask (or face shield, etc.) requirements and possibly related policies such as maximum elevator occupancy when the people are not traveling together or members of the same family. I've tried searching f... Read More