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Finally, No Fly December is Here (now known as No Fly Noel)
Years ago on the advice of my most excellent boss, I came up with a travel policy to help control my runaway travel problem. I don’t travel during “no fly July” or during “no fly December” (though the...
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No Fly Noel 2011
Using last year’s new nomenclature, I welcome a respite from airplanes during the month of December for no fly noel. There won’t be too many hotel entries this month! This year the “no fly July” and...
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United: Small Patch of Light Replaced by Darkness
When I flew to Germany last week, I did not rely on getting an upgrade. I bought a business class ticket. Looks like United has trained me just like they wanted to. The international flights were fine....
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United Airlines Sucks IN ADVANCE
Wow. I am about to get another taste of economy class to Europe courtesy of United. I am flying to Amsterdam in early May and was counting on my 1,000,000 miles and 100k status along with a couple of...
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How Does United Suck? Let Us Count the Ways
First some numbers: 1,411,587 miles almost 10 years of 100k status premier 1k status (with lifetime gold) a handful of global premier upgrade blips 4 days in the row flying on United planes (indy,...
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No Fly July 2012 Delayed for Athens
By now, “no fly July” is usually nicely underway and the river beckons. This year’s edition is being postponed until after I get back from Athens on July 16th. That means it’s really going to be more...
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No fly July 2012
After a two week delay (including a trip to Athens on United), no fly July has finally arrived. No flying means no hotels. No hotels equals no strange showers at all (plastic or otherwise). See you...
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No Fly Noel 2012
It’s December, and that’s a good thing. No fly noel begins on December 1st. A break from relentless travel is just what the doctor ordered. Well kinda. I am flying to New Orleans next weekend for a...
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Introducing TravelCloud
It’s pretty obvious that I should have been categorizing and tagging posts since I started this blog back in late 2009. Today I “tagged and bagged” 2012, 2011, and 2009. I ran out of energy to do 2010!...
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Want a United Upgrade? Forget it. United STILL Sucks in 2013.
Four years ago, I was upgraded on every United flight I flew across the country except for one. Then came the era of Jeff Smisek (2011, 2012), mostly likely the worst CEO of a major company in the...
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No fly Noel 2013
No question about it, 2013 was a rough year of travel. My plan to do around 30 trips turned into a complete FAIL with a 40% higher than planned 42 trips. Ouch. In 2014 I am getting serious about travel...
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United Gold->Platinum Ripoff
This week, United sent me some dead tree mail “offering” a “limited-time opportunity to ensure Platinum status for 2014.” Seems that I only flew 68K miles on United, so I need 7000 more to make...
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No Fly Noël 2014: Six Days Late and a Dollar Short
Travel was thankfully almost reasonable this year, down to thirty trips off last year’s forty-two. (FWIW, we’ll shoot for 25 in 2015.) But we did do an out of character trip in December, delaying the...
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And Now No Fly Nöel
True. We have not been on an airplane since November. But all these trips to Washington and Philly in cars are encroaching on our no travel respite. Now it’s time to rest our bones beside the fire....
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no fly nöel is finally here in 2017
This California in December thing seems to be a trend now that NPS works for a silicon valley company. What that means is a week-long delay in the start of our annual no fly nöel thing. So how did 2018...
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No Fly Nöel 2018
2018 was an interesting year for travel. We stayed close to our 20 trip goal (miraculous), but still managed to hit Argentina, Africa, the Bahamas, New Zealand, and Australia, not to mention a bunch of...
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