When United or Continental launch a flight bonus offer you can almost guarantee that the airline that didn’t launch the offer will have the offer up for their members within a few days as is the case with our Bonus Offer Highlight. United released this offer to Mileage Plus members last week and by yesterday…
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Bonus Offer Highlight October 26: Continental
To our seasoned readers you know I love to highlight offers that make achieving elite status easier and/or faster and today we highlight another of these offers, this time from Continental/Copa: Continental OnePass Double OnePass Miles and and double Elite qualifying miles when you travel on Copa Airlines or Copa Airlines Colombia between Central America…
United unveils 2012 Mileage Plus program changes
United has released the details of the 2012 Mileage Plus program which effectively also covers Continental’s OnePass program as that is being integrated into Mileage Plus on December 31. The following updates to the program are taken straight from United’s own post on Milepoint.com and can also be view on United.com New vocabulary. First, here’s…
Mileage Plus/OnePass mileage transfer and Elite status tools
Early last week (sorry been traveling and didn’t get a chance to put this up sooner) United’s official rep to Milepoint.com posted new tools for members of United’s Mileage Plus and Continental’s OnePass programs to transfer miles between accounts and combine elite earnings between them as well. The reason for these tools is that the…
Continental & United agree to merge
Continental and United Airlines have agreed to merge the two airlines to create the worlds largest airline. Not too many details have been released and the deal will be subject to government approval. What we do know is that should the merger go through, the airline will be called United Airlines but will use the…
Continental to offer extra legroom in Economy, for a fee
Rather then rehashing it, this is what I got in my recent email from Continental: “On March 17, 2010, we’ll be introducing a new option allowing you to purchase seat assignments for unreserved, Economy Class seats that feature extra legroom. Depending on the type of aircraft and row, seats with extra legroom offer a minimum…
Three U.S. Majors raise luggage fees….again!
Continental, Delta and United have all followed US Airways lead and raised their checked luggage fees once again. This is at least the second time in the past twelve months that they have done this. As U.S. airlines continue to struggle financially they are finding that ancillary revenue streams such as checked luggage fees are…
Continental announces new OnePass Elite benefits
This was received this an email from Continental last week. The following new benefits are being offered for Elite levels in Continental’s OnePass program: System-wide UpgradesPlatinum Elite members who earn at least 100,000 Elite Qualification Miles (EQMs) or 120 Elite Qualification Points (EQPs) will earn four, one-way electronic System-wide Upgrade certificates. These certificates can be…
Continental & United work on reciprocal elite access
Continental and United have announced that they are working together on allowing Elite Frequent Flyers from each airlines FFPs reciprocal access to upgrades and priority boarding. This is an excerpt from the Continental email I received yesterday: “Continental and United are working toward implementing reciprocal Elite access to upgrades and priority seating on both airlines…
October: a busy month for FFB and the Industry!
You may have noticed not much has gone on here on the FFB Blog for the past two weeks or so. We had been busy preparing for and attending the FFP-ARAC conference (Frequent Flyer Program – Ancillary Revenue Airline Conference) hence the lack of posts here or updates on the Frequent Flyer Bonuses Group of…
