Silly prize from an excellent airline

All Nippon Airways has emerged as my preferred carrier if I have to sit in steerage on transpacific routes, displacing UA as my default carrier (unless there are SWUs involved).

Why choose NH over UA? For about the same price, NH gives you better food, seatback AVOD, excellent service and a choice of arrival times and if you plan it right, a brief stopover as you change airports for the connection to SIN.

And since I brought up SIN, why not fly SQ instead of NH?  If you’re flying economy, you need to select a slightly more expensive economy ticket in order to get miles.  Seeing that the price difference is usually about US$60, it’s not a big deal.  What IS a big deal is that on NH, as a UA Mileage Plus elite, you will get elite bonus for your redeemable miles earned on their transpacific flights.  SQ gives you miles flown and that’s all IF you have a qualifying fare.

NH also has a very active FB presence with lots of photos and contests you can enter via Twitter.  I won this luggage tag by answering the question of the month via Twitter and linking my accounts.  It’s a nice looking tag.  Not sure if I want it to get all scuffed up…

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