Articles tagged ‘United’
United Airlines Elite Team Contest
By Carrie Thompson | March 17th, 2008 |
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United Airlines is offering a new contest to Premier Mileage Plus members in 2008, the Elite Team Contest. The airline, who hates to give anything away, is giving its elite customers fifty million miles. Those miles will be distributed in 50 one million mile prizes To win the miles, members can team [...]
United Airlines Suitcase Party in Denver
By Carrie Thompson | March 14th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
United Airlines is having a suitcase party to celebrate the airline’s new service between the Denver International Airport and London’s Heathrow. The party will be held at Pints Pub on West 13th Avenue (in Denver, of course) on March 30th, so you have a few weeks to prepare.
What’s the prize? A [...]
United Airlines Luggage Policy
By Carrie Thompson | February 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
United Airlines has a new, “simplified” checked bag policy for customers using nonrefundable domestic economy tickets. As of May 2008, customers traveling on nonrefundable domestic economy tickets will be charged $25 for checking a second bag. Rules differ for passengers who have Premier status or higher in the Mileage Plus or Star Alliance [...]
United Airlines Offers Starbucks Inflight
By Carrie Thompson | September 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
United Airlines customers will keep on enjoying their Starbucks coffee with the recently signed agreement between the two brands. United, apparently, exclusively serves Starbucks coffee. Now, I haven’t flown United in quite a while so this is news to me. Starbucks is the crack-cocaine of the beverage world, so I’m sure it isn’t [...]
United Mileage Plus and Ameritrade
By Carrie Thompson | June 25th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
With United Airlines Mileage Plus Program, you can earn up to 25,000 miles for opening an account with Ameritrade. That should be enough miles for a free domestic round trip ticket. All you have to do is open and fund a TD Ameritrade account.
TD Ameritrade gives you the trading tools you [...]
TAM and United Airlines Codeshare Flights and Frequent Flyer Partnership
By Carrie Thompson | May 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
TAM Linhas Aereas and United Airlines sitting in a tree… Kidding. But TAM and United Airlines have signed a “memorandum of understanding” to begin the process of enabling the airlines to offer codeshare flights with each other and expand the international destinations served and frequent flyer opportunities available for customers of both carriers.
The [...]
United Airlines New Routes for October 2007
By Carrie Thompson | May 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
United Airlines today is expanding its international network by launching two new nonstop flights from the United States to Asia and South America. Daily, nonstop passenger and cargo service between Los Angeles and Hong Kong and between Washington, D.C., and Rio de Janeiro will begin October of 2007. F
Los Angeles-Hong Kong: The LA-Hong [...]
United Airlines and Coca Cola
By Carrie Thompson | May 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
United Airlines has signed a five-year beverage agreement with The Coca-Cola Company, making it United’s primary soft drink supplier, effective May 1, 2007. This new business partnership will give United’s customers a choice of eight Coca-Cola beverages, including Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Spring Water, Seagrams Ginger Ale, Tonic and Seltzer Water, while providing [...]
United Airlines Price Increase for LAX
By Carrie Thompson | April 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
United Airlines has instituted a $10 per ticket price increase for passengers flying in to or out of LAX. Sure, you can grumble about how the damn airlines keep raising prices, but at first this one seemed justified to me. That doesn’t make it suck any less to pay more, but the increase [...]
United Airlines Miles Promotion
By Carrie Thompson | March 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
United Airlines is offering frequent flyers a double miles bonus for paying 2006 taxes using their United Mileage Plus Visa. Members receive double miles for every eligible dollar spent when you use your card to pay your personal (or quarterly estimated) federal income tax or when you pay or state or property tax. [...]
