My friend Ben just sent me an interesting article from Wired Magazine about mileage running. The author, Dave Demerijan, is given $500 and tasked with squeezing as many miles as possible out of it. While I wasn't terribly impressed...

"There's nothing quite as fascinating as landing in a foreign country," exclaimed my seatmate, Abram, as the landing gear dropped below our 757. I looked outside. "A foreign country like... Texas?" I asked, somewhat sarcastically, watching the Dallas airport...

Fleeing the setting sun at 31,000 feet, my fellow passengers and I escape from California leaving behind memories of the 405 "parking lot" (pictured above), soggy omlettes, all-day business meetings, and hotel air conditioners that rattled like a beater...

I love it when my predictions pay off! As you can see from the screen above, the flights I booked myself on months ago are completely "zero'd" out (with the exception of "F" or "First Class"). That means that...

Time for the return trip of our mileage run in order to double our net miles for the trip. However, we have suddenly been faced with a major dilemma: do we catch our wee hour flight and only get...

To be honest with you, I fly United for the perks they offer in exchange for my loyalty. The first class, the meals, the roomy EconomyPlus section, and the worldwide network. So when I heard they were launching "Ted"...

You don't have to be outside to know that Houston is hot and humid. Just look out the window. The airport operations crew for our aircraft were propped back on their vehicles as we pulled up: shorts, t-shirts, sunglasses....