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In a previous installment, I covered how I booked a last minute Lufthansa economy ticket with points from Frankfurt (FRA) to Copenhagen (CPH), after my Scandinavian Airlines flight was canceled. I had an interesting experience with upgrading this Lufthansa flight, which I’d like to share. My experience upgrading my Lufthansa flight with cashAs mentioned above, at the very last minute I booked a Lufthansa economy ticket with a partner points currency from Frankfurt to Copenhagen. This flight was very full in economy, and when I checked in online, I couldn’t select a seat, but instead, ended up on the waitlist…
Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional miles & points for purchases you’d make anyway. Just for following a specific link, you can earn bonus points or cash back in addition to the rewards you’d earn for credit card spending.Sometimes companies really want you to buy products from them, to the point that it can make sense to purchase something through an online shopping portal even if you don’t actually have a use for it. Along those lines, there’s such a promotion available right now, which I think is worth taking advantage of. A few days…
This seems like an exceedingly poorly handled situation, especially when you consider that this happened at a hub (thanks to tv for flagging this)… Lufthansa cancels flight, but won’t let passengers off plane This incident happened on Thursday, February 19, 2026, and involves Lufthansa flight LH2446, with scheduled service from Munich (MUC) to Copenhagen (CPH). The short 504-mile flight was operated by an Airbus A320neo, and was supposed to depart at 9:30PM and arrive at 11:05PM, but that’s not how things played out. According to reports from passengers, they ended up being stranded on the plane overnight, after the flight…
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far! I just got home from my trip to Asia, and recovering from jet lag sure is proving to be challenging… I’m getting old! On the points & travel front, this week United announced huge MileagePlus changes, Air Astana finalized its Boeing 787 order, a Yale academic had a bizarre defense of American CEO Robert Isom, Hyatt’s chairman stepped down over the Epstein Files, Lufthansa finally had some good news with its Allegris Boeing 787 business class, and more. With that out of the way, here’s a recap of this week…
Following the first sighting of the new capability in December 2025, a Ukrainian F-16 was captured using APKWS II laser-guided rockets to engage a drone. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 was captured for the first time while using its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II guided rockets against a Russian unmanned system, believed to be a Geran-type One-Way Attack (OWA) drone, in a video that appeared on Feb. 17, 2025. The video is actually infrared footage from the Sniper targeting pod used to lase the target, part of a longer promotional video by the Ukrainian Air Force. This new…
Braking Action Advisories When tower controllers receive runway braking action reports which include the terms “medium,” “poor,” or “nil,” or whenever weather conditions are conducive to deteriorating or rapidly changing runway braking conditions, the tower will include on the ATIS broadcast the statement, “Braking Action Advisories are in Effect.” During the time braking action advisories are in effect, ATC will issue the most current braking action report for the runway in use to each arriving and departing aircraft. Pilots should be prepared for deteriorating braking conditions and should request current runway condition information if not issued by controllers. Pilots should…
“McEwen’s offending showed a blatant disregard for the rules and regulations imposed on those who want to fly a drone. These guidelines are in place to protect everyone’s safety and they must be respected. We appreciate many people will feel that these are minor offences however they can have devastating consequences.” Source: Investigating officer PC Jon Parker, explaining why a UK drone operator has been hit with 17 convictions after repeatedly flying over an active industrial fire and inside restricted airport airspace, giving him the unfortunate title of Britain’s first (but, at this rate, not last) drone pilot to be…
Also: Canada Expected To Certify Gulfstream, Vista Spends $4.7B, Warbird Reg Update, Daher AD An Epic E1000 impacted terrain near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, just after midnight on February 13. Authorities confirmed that all four people were lost in the crash and that the NTSB is involved. ADS-B data shows the final recorded position at approximately 00:19 local time near the summit of Emerald Mountain, about 0.8 nautical miles left of the extended centerline and 3 nm south of the threshold for runway 32. Boeing is reportedly hoping to finally get its first production-standard 777X airborne this April. If this schedule…
(Pilot) Lost Control Of The Airplane As It Turned To The Left Despite The Application Of Full Right Rudder Analysis: The pilot was performing a pre-buy flight in the amateur-built airplane. The takeoff roll was normal until the airplane accelerated between 25 to 50 mph, when the airplane required right rudder to maintain straight flight. After liftoff, without pilot input, the airplane veered left of the runway. The pilot applied right rudder and was able to get the airplane back over the runway. However, he lost control of the airplane as it turned to the left despite the application of…
From 2023 (YouTube Edition): A Bone to Chew Envisioned in the 1960s as a platform that would combine the Mach 2 speed of Convair’s sexy but temperamental B-58 Hustler with the range and payload of Boeing’s rock-steady B-52 Stratofortress, Rockwell’s B-1 Lancer was meant to ultimately replace both aircraft. Following a long series of studies, Rockwell International (now part of Boeing) prevailed—besting Boeing, General Dynamics, and North American—in the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (AMSA) design contest, submitting a concept that would, years later, emerge into the Cold War world as the B-1A.