Check your United app to see if you’ve been targeted for a Mile Play offer. To register, just click into the Mile Play messaging on your app’s home screen. You’ll get an email confirming registration. My offer this time around is…

If you Google “United close-in fee trick” you will find no shortage of blogs explaining this workaround on the $75 fee that United charges non-elites / premium credit card holders to book within 21 days of travel. It’s a total…

By now, everyone on Planet Earth knows what happened. On Tuesday, a United flight attendant demanded that a dog owner place her French Bulldog, which was in a dog carrier, in the overhead bin. The dog died in-flight. It’s an…

Hat tip to Ricardo_UAFlyer for finding this deal.  Assuming you can find United-metal saver availability in coach for the days you want, you can save 20% off a roundtrip award from the US or Alaska to Porto, Portugal, Reykjavik, Iceland,…

While I didn’t get an email about it, I found this promotion in my United iPhone app. I’m sure everyone has a different offer. For mine, I need to take one flight for over $250 (I can’t tell if this…

If you are looking to fly at the pointy end of the plane to Tel Aviv from the US, there are plenty of seats on the SFO-TLV route in Polaris (Business) Class. It’s 2 x 2 x 2 seating (not the…

I’ve mostly stayed out of posting about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, save for one Black Friday / Cyber Monday post that had compiled a few deals I thought were good. The main reason is that there were just so…

  On Nov 1, United’s new award chart went into effect. It raised the amount of miles you need for most international awards, especially in the premium cabins, and introduced their new EveryDay awards (variable even higher level awards than…