Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards
Folks are finally back from their long trip, which included their magnificent USDM F award which covered both Europe and North America. Well, UA swapped out their aircraft and they were relegated to J rather than F for two sectors (this happened more than two weeks out), but big deal.
A few notes from their experiences:
- On TG F, they flew the B747, but unlike what I was told from TG customer services, they received Rimowa kits on both sectors (cf. only being given out on A380 sectors; the other sectors got Tumi kits).
- On their way over, flying BNE-SIN-BKK-LHR (SQ J, TG J, TG F), they had no attendant waiting for them when they landed in BKK. So of course they did the sensible thing and walked to the transit point themselves, cleared security, and walked themselves to the Royal First Lounge, whereupon entry they were then waited upon every second
- I didn't know that you could preorder TG F menu items for departures from other ports besides BKK. Dad seemed annoyed that he wasn't able to have lobster on his LHR-BKK flight until I explained that it wasn't on the menu because the office idiots had forgotten about it, but because those pax preordered it.
In other news, TG J kits were from Crabtree and Evelyn; and SQ J amenity kits, well, don't exist (but you already knew that).
Dad's a light sleeper and has trouble sleeping on moving vehicles, so he only managed many little naps.
Oh, and I found out another thing Dad and I have in common: we both don't like Dom Perignon. The slight difference - I just don't find Dom Perignon my cup of tea, whereas Dad described it as tasting like acrid p***. It might have put him off trying other champagnes in the future now.
Mum was very happy on the LHR-BKK flight because one of the attendants in the F cabin was able to speak Mandarin, so they conversed in Mandarin during the flight.
