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  • Points & Miles

    Partner Award Flight Confusion? The Playbook for Booking, Seats, Baggage & Changes

    by joeheg November 8, 2025
    by joeheg November 8, 2025

    Using your miles to book airline tickets seems like a straightforward process. You earn miles and then redeem miles, a process points and miles people call “earn and burn.” Hopefully, …

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    United Changed Our Seats With No Chance Of Sitting Together

    by joeheg March 20, 2023
    by joeheg March 20, 2023

    Equipment swaps happen all the time and if you travel enough you’ll encounter one. Sometimes it’s a bad one, like when you planned a flight specifically to sit in an …

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  • Airlines

    Guilty! We Book Aisle & Window Seats On Narrowbody Domestic Flights

    by joeheg January 11, 2023
    by joeheg January 11, 2023

    I feel attacked! The Washington Post wrote an article about couples who book aisle and window seats. I have no shame in admitting that I book a window and aisle …

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    Delta Let Me Buy A Seat Assignment On A Basic Economy Ticket

    by joeheg September 17, 2022
    by joeheg September 17, 2022

    Delta was one of the first airlines to offer basic economy tickets, back in 2013. Originally the ticket class was supposed to allow Delta to compete against low cost carriers …

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  • Airlines

    How To Pick The Best Seat On A Southwest Flight

    by joeheg July 11, 2022
    by joeheg July 11, 2022

    It’s one thing to know the tricks on how to be the first one to get on a Southwest flight (Hint, it’s not Early Bird) but once onboard you also …

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  • Airlines

    I Pimped Our Flight. What You Get With Frontier’s “The Works” Upgrade

    by joeheg June 4, 2022
    by joeheg June 4, 2022

    When I search for flights from Orlando, Frontier often shows as the cheapest option. While the price shown in the search is the actual fare, it wouldn’t be the price …

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  • Airlines

    Southwest May Consider Switching To Assigned Seating

    by SharonKurheg January 20, 2022
    by SharonKurheg January 20, 2022

    Southwest Airlines is a definite outlier in the airline world. They’re the only U.S. airline that doesn’t charge a fee for your first two checked bags. They’re the only one …

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  • Airlines

    Did We Get The Two Worst Seats On This American 737-800?

    by joeheg December 3, 2021
    by joeheg December 3, 2021

    Part of me blocked out this part of our last flights on American Airlines. Looking back at our pictures, it reminded me that American Airlines assigned us two of the …

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  • Travel

    The Unofficial Rules Of Sitting In The Middle Seat Of A Plane

    by SharonKurheg June 21, 2021
    by SharonKurheg June 21, 2021

    Invariably, most of us are going to get stuck in a middle seat every once in a while. It could be because you got a Basic Economy ticket. Or you …

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  • Travel

    Where Are The Quietest Seats On A Plane?

    by SharonKurheg March 19, 2020
    by SharonKurheg March 19, 2020

    Different people have different priorities when it comes to sitting on a plane. Some want a window seat. Others are happiest sitting on the aisle. Some just want the cheapest …

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