{"id":1031,"date":"2014-05-22T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2022-08-08T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:24:13","slug":"awol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/awol\/","title":{"rendered":"AWOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened since the last post.<\/p>\n<p>I finally divorced United Airlines.\u00a0 This has been a long time coming.\u00a0 First, there was the gradual devaluation of 1K status.\u00a0 Then there was the announcement that Mileage Plus was going to a revenue model (like Delta).\u00a0 Even if you flew 100k BIS (Butt in Seat) miles in a calendar year, if you didn&#8217;t spend US$10,000 on said miles, you get no status.\u00a0 So much for loyalty.\u00a0 The final straw was the devaluation of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Star Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.staralliance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Star Alliance<\/a> partner award chart, where tickets I regularly redeemed for went up from 40 to 120%.\u00a0 I miss my access to Star Alliance flights, but after UA jacked up the prices for these flights (cos they don&#8217;t want to pay for them and would prefer to keep their flyers captive on UA metal), it wasn&#8217;t worth the grief anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I am now an Executive Platinum on American Airlines which means I will be flying <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oneworld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworld.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">OneWorld<\/a> carriers going forward.\u00a0 So far, it&#8217;s been a mixed bag.\u00a0 In January, I flew British Airways in Premium Economy to Istanbul via LHR.\u00a0 If I needed a reminder of what I left behind on UA (old planes, older FAs), all I need to do is fly BA.\u00a0 Yes, it was that unimpressive.\u00a0 My next trip was to PVG on AA.\u00a0 It was pleasant enough, with my SWUs clearing despite me being on an el cheapo ticket.\u00a0 The hard product in C is 15 years too old though.\u00a0 Regardless, it beats steerage any day.\u00a0\u00a0 The next trip will be on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cathay Pacific\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cathaypacific.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Cathay Pacific<\/a> for a run to Hong Kong.\u00a0 This is a reunion of sorts because my first trip overseas was on CX.\u00a0 Am looking forward to their lounges in HKG.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minyanville.com\/sectors\/consumer\/articles\/inside-the-world-of-mileage-runners\/3\/5\/2014\/id\/53724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.zemanta.com\/253771234_80_80.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 83px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; background-image: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minyanville.com\/sectors\/consumer\/articles\/inside-the-world-of-mileage-runners\/3\/5\/2014\/id\/53724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside the World of &#8216;Mileage Runners&#8217;: Flying Nowhere for the Points<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened since the last post. I finally divorced United Airlines.\u00a0 This has been a long time coming.\u00a0 First, there was the gradual devaluation of 1K status.\u00a0 Then there was the announcement that Mileage Plus was going to a revenue model (like Delta).\u00a0 Even if you flew 100k BIS (Butt in Seat) miles &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/awol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AWOL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2mgIi-awol","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}