Tag Archives: US Airways

Two years ago, I flew out to do an event in Chicago in February.  I took an early flight because I wanted to meet up with some people I knew in the area prior to the event. This accidentally saved my work event. My coworkers weren’t able to fly out. …

I was just talking to some American flyers and realized that not everyone knows that some US Airways domestic flights have free beer and wine in coach.  The benefit to being in first class on these flights is the access to liquor as well (in addition to the bigger seat, of course. …

A friend of mine was booking a trip today and noticed she literally could not book a ticket for an infant on the US Airways website. When she first went to the site, the option wasn’t there. But when you poke around, you can eventually find another booking screen that …

Whenever I was hoping for an upgrade at the gate, I’d cross my fingers that a Chairman who flew more miles than I have wouldn’t check in after me.  They would jump above me on the upgrade list. Keri is a Chairman too and has flown more than me lately. …

Lately, I’ve felt a little crazy when booking flights.  I felt like prices were going up then going back down during the booking process.  I always finally got the fare I wanted, so I didn’t think too much about it. Then today I figured out what was going on. Flights …

ExpertFlyer will begin supporting US Airways Award & Upgrade searching and alerting. From their press release: As part of our continued partnership with American Airlines, we are pleased to announce that ExpertFlyer now supports full US Airways Award & Upgrade searching and alerting. The addition of awards and upgrades from US Airways …

An era has ended.  Piedmont Airlines (now part of US Airways) was the first to use the Being 737-400. And now they’ve used their last. According to the Desert Sun: The aircraft — tail number N435US — flew from Charlotte to Dallas/Fort Worth to Philadelphia before returning to Charlotte on …

When checking your US Airways flight status, your intuition would be that www.usairways.com is the best place to check.  But there are three better places to check your US Airways flight status. 1. The US Airways Mobile Website You can access the US Airways mobile website from any browser at …

Random.org has spoken and the winner is…. The proof that these results are truly random–the winner voted for American Airlines.  <long sigh> Here’s the original post. And American Airlines won the poll overall.  I’m sure it didn’t help that Ed did some last minute muckracking.  (Beltway insider, really?) Anyway, this “rivalry” …

Ed from Pizza in Motion has posted a poll where you can vote on who has the better upgrade process:  US Airways or American Airlines. For details on the two programs: I wrote a detailed argument on why US Airways clearly has the better product. Ed wrote an argument for why …