Booking Award Flights on United Airlines
[QUOTE=Ehunter;1372265]I know this post is off topic, but does anybody have experience using United Airlines Award travel getting to Bangkok from San Francisco? . I have not used awards in years and most likely there are some nice tips / tricks to get the most bang for my frequent flyer buck. I am also thinking of possible advantages via the many airline partners that might be used. Seems most UA flights arrive at a horrible time. Just short of midnight! That sucks.[/QUOTE]Immediately after United merged with Continental the web site was lousy. It's still not perfect, but it works better than it used to. Go to the drop down menu for Mileage Plus and choose "book with award miles." The default value is to display all Star Alliance flights. But you can choose to display only United flights if that's your preference. (Although I don't know why you would. Generally speaking the Star Alliance carriers are almost always better in every way.)
I've also read online reports that there might be an advantage to using the web sites of the Star Alliance carriers. I've never tried that, but there are some who swear by it. For more than you'd ever want to know about gaming the frequent flyer programs surf over to:
[url]www.flyertalk.com[/url]
With regard to the flight schedules, not much you can do. Looks like the majority of trips are going to leave San Francisco at midday, connect somewhere in Asia, and arrive in Bangkok very late in the evening. You might be able to find a trip or two that leaves in the evening and arrives during daylight hours, but that's going to be the exception.
Bunky
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Pussy prices and the US Fed money printing
I am rather shocked at the inflation rate of pussy and enclose a graph of the THB-USD from 41 in 2006 and just six years later roughly 30: this is a 27% decrease in purchasing power or about 4. 5% annual inflation. I am tipping very high domestic inflation in double digits once the effects of zero cost money, the printing press and deliberate devaluation flow through (the latter because of the 90% of goods made in Asia, such as American flags) to the general economy. Talking up housing prices and fake credit is not going to substitute for lack of real income that has been falling for two decades. This flood of cash. Or toilet paper. Will come home to roost.
The upshot is that punters need to hedge by buying quality Asian stocks for our hobby and also as good business sense. Gone are the days when a beer cost more than a blowjob (as was the case in Cambodia).
Now I could understand making US pussy competitive as a services industry, but that is not the case because local law enforcement use it as an arrest mill to generate statistics that help their short term career and revenue goals. The fact that this destroys entire families and jobs (and with it taxes) that is a net fiscal negative is too hard for the local cops to understand. In fact, the US is becoming very nasty, myself and friends getting questioned and hassled by Dept Homeland Chimps at the airport about that 10 day trip to LOS or the Philippines. I tell them I'm with the 13th Reformed Baptist Church of Podunk, Alabama spreading God's word. With a deadpan face. It's true. Especially the oral testing of what they learned.
That's another story. My beloved Republic is falling apart. The only growth industry is mindless tick the box form, procedure and process and thuggish, militarized police forces and even parking inspectors. Time to get out.
The US domestic risk of P4P is not worth it when Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia consenting, adult women are willing and able to offer what fat, cranky American white cows are not, so economic substitution is a non-starter.
Anyways. 4-5% pussy inflation is high. Anyone else notice it? Or compared it to Europe EUR50 FKK's?
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