Southwest has a new heart (logo), United went to court and the Ex-Im bank continues to be a strange player in the aviation market.
DLD 61: The power of a Tweet
- August 28, 2014
- Tagged as: American Airlines, Boston, Cathay Pacific, podcast, United, United Airlines
The Knee Defender caused a lot of problems recently. Also, passengers are crazy. And if you don’t believe a flight can be delayed over a tweet then it is time to change your views.
DLD 60: Happy birthday to me!
- August 14, 2014
- Tagged as: American Express, Croatia, jetblue, lounges, podcast, United, United Airlines, Vienna
Arm rest wars, massive delays and lounge food upgrades. Plus some idiocy from lobbyists and insights into two cool European destinations. Enjoy!
DLD 59: Overrated
- July 31, 2014
- Tagged as: Delta, Delta Air Lines, lounges, Lufthansa, PaxEx, podcast, TSA, United, United Airlines, Virgin America
Which first class lounges are worth going out of your way for? Also, a new safety video, new IFE coming to Delta and Virgin America might go public. Plus, special guest Josh Zepps.
DLD 58: Adventures in IROPS
- July 18, 2014
- Tagged as: A330neo, A380, AAdvantage, Airbus, American Airlines, awards, Etihad, Gold Passport, hyatt, jetblue, Qatar, rewards, United, United Airlines
Things don’t always go as planned. We usually recover better than others, even if there is a bit of chaos involved. Still, it is not too common that a simple round-trip requires 10-ish different bookings to make it happen. Oopsie.
DLD 57: Frogger is more fun in real life
- July 3, 2014
- Tagged as: Air India, Atlanta, Delta, Delta Air Lines, Doha, frequent flier, frequent flyer, jetblue, PaxEx, points, Qatar, Star Alliance, United, United Airlines
What happens when a guy nicknamed Black Cloud for his travel, erm, challenges goes for a run in Ahmedabad at 5am? Many things, including that we managed to get him as a guest on the show to talk about all sorts of fun, including the “real life, high stakes version of Frogger” which ensued.
If we had tried a bit harder we probably could have come up with an awesome way to run the show this week in honor of the Kentucky Derby. Instead all I did was manage…
Is it episode number 2 or number 48? And why the new name? Also, do any of us know what the heck is going on?? Answers to these questions and more in this week’s episode…
Welcome to the newly rebranded Dots, Lines and Destinations. We used to be PointsHoarder but we don’t really hoard points and the irony of that stopped being entertaining. Plus we like talking about destinations and…
PointsHoarder 46: Staten Island to the Island Hopper
- March 6, 2014
- Tagged as: Cleveland, Delta, Frontier, Mileage Run, Qantas, United, United Airlines, wifi
Welcome to episode 46 of the PointsHoarder podcast where we spend much of our time working to bully/pressure Stephan into taking a trip half way around the world, mostly in coach, for no apparent reason…
