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I started a tradition last year where I basically plug my contributions to the community. This year my number of United posts almost out-numbered my non-United posts in terms of contributions. So this post is about non-United contributions.
These are original ideas and research I've done and written about, new this past year. However, I created a few list posts that focused on or listed other content, so I tried not to double post and just use the lists.
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This is one of the most bang for the buck redemptions in terms of miles. You can cover a ton of ground for a mere 25k miles. Or 40k in Business Class. The idea is that a flight within the Oceania to Oceania region on the award chart is incredibly cheap despite how much ground needs to be covered.
Basically we flew from Guam to Rarotonga for 40,000 miles roundtrip in Business Class, however, there's really nothing direct from Guam to Rarotonga, and in fact you can't even really do it with 1 or even 2 connections. Thus we layed...
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Recently Wandering Aramean came out with a post talking about an issue he had booking a ticket for a friend. Eventually, an agent told him that there was now a limit of 4 segments (3 connections) each direction.
Meanwhile, I noticed tons of people saying that they had trouble booking tickets with United. And the reasoning was all over the board. No "circle trips", "you can't cross both oceans", calling them round the world trips, you're no longer allowed two open-jaws, no backtracking, just because, etc...
Most of them didn't make sense. Well, sort of. The one that seemed to...
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One new route I'm considering (which does not suffer from the devaluation) is the "Latin Hopper". It's not as glorious as the Pacific Hopper, but it's more practical, easy to set up, and still has an incredible value.
It's actually one of the cheapest routes you can do with 20k. Any roundtrip between anywhere in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Northern South America would be 20,000 United miles.
