Typically when you’re booked on separate tickets you can still check your bags all the way through to your final destination by presenting your e-ticket receipt at check-in. Exact policies differ by airline — some airlines will let you check through bags from virtually all carriers, while others (like Southwest) won’t let you check through bags from any other carriers.
Per a memo sent to travel agents, United will be tightening up their policies for checked bags on separate tickets. Beginning on March 1, 2015, it will no longer be possible to check bags through from an United flight to a separate ticket on another airline, with a few exceptions.
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Via Hans Mast United has copied another customer-unfriendly policy developed elsewhere at other carriers. They’re going to stop checking baggage through to your final destination when you’re traveling on separate tickets and your connection is on an airline outside the Star Alliance. Here instead of immediately following what Delta does by doing the exact same […]
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Earlier in the week I wrote about how the US and China have announced a new, reciprocal 10 year visa policy for tourists and business travelers. This is obviously fantastic news, given that previously US travelers could get at most a one year visa for travel to China.
The change was supposed to kick in on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, though as is usually the case with bureaucracy, there seems to be a lot of misinformation, and it also takes time for policies to spread. Obviously there are lots of questions about how the process will work in practice, and up until now we've had limited answers.
The United States of America-China Chamber of Commerce posted some useful information about how the 10 year visa program will work:
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News and notes from around the interweb: Every important American airport, ranked by its food and drink. (Meanwhile, here are the Worst Airports in the United States.) ATC Zero: Inside the Chicago Center Fire (HT: L.B.) Stay once get a free night (HT: S.) The guy that has the most credit cards. I’ve rarely felt […]
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As most of you probably know by now, American and US Airways aligned their domestic catering as of September 1, 2014. For American flyers, these changes haven't been pretty.
Beginning on Tuesday, November 18th, there will be some further updates to the domestic first class catering for both American and US Airways.
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Back in September I wrote about how Air China is the next airline to take delivery of the Boeing 747-8. To me, the 747 will always be the queen of the skies, and it's sad to see so many airlines retiring them. The 747-8 at least extends 747 service for a few airlines, though unfortunately the plane never really gained traction in terms of orders.
Lufthansa was the first airline to start flying the 747-8, and Air China is the second.
Air China initially announced that they'd first be flying the 747-8 within China for familiarization/training flights, and that their first longhaul 747-8 destination would be Frankfurt.
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Reader S. shared this deal: book a roundtrip flight and pay via Visa checkout, and get a $100 off hotel coupon. You have to book a standalone roundtrip ticket, which could be as simple as DC – New York – DC. Then you’ll get a hotel promo code emailed to you. It will be valid […]
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Every month I make a post with what I consider to be the best credit card sign-up bonuses of the month. While there are several excellent long standing credit card offers, the specifics of the best offers are constantly changing (be it the annual fee, minimum spend requirement, or even amount of the sign-up bonus).…
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Wanna seriously upgrade your laptop audio? Of course you do and here’s how … After checking out Cambridge Audio’s latest DacMagic XS headphone amp this week, I’ve been completely hooked on it. The sound is ridiculously awesome: I tested the unit on a variety of different music genres (including talk/podcast, EDM and of course some […]
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Delta is pitching cheap first class upgrades for the holidays. They’re advertising, UPGRADE TO FIRST CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS AN ADDITIONAL $49 EACH WAY AND ENJOY MORE LUXURY ON BOARD. My first thought, of course, was Tens of Dollars upgrades.. is Delta managing by doing what United does? Then of course I realized, the […]
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With airlines finally turning profits, we're seeing a lot of negative changes to frequent flyer programs, including in many cases a move to revenue based programs. United MileagePlus is one of the programs which has made the most tweaks over the past couple of years.
Or more accurately, I should say that Delta SkyMiles has been making changes, and United MileagePlus has been matching them.
So what has happened so far?
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I like to mix it up in the comments sometimes, especially when I think a comment is unfair or dishonest, or focuses too much on motives rather than on the strength of an argument. After all, it’s the internet. And many of us have seen that cartoon of the man hunched over a computer in […]
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