Blog Tag - United Airlines

New Hotels and More Travelers: Just Another Week in Travel in China
For anyone that's looking for some fitness-related travel options, we just wrote about that in This Week in Fitness. In Beijing, there is still no...
Where to Go for Spring Festival 2016; Beijing to Hong Kong in Eight Hours
As I wrote on Tuesday, now is the time to plan your next holiday, which means Christmas or for non-home visits, Spring Festival/Chinese New Year,...
Bad News from Bangkok; A Rule of Travel Becomes a Law, and a New Use for Tiger Balm
The news out of Bangkok Monday is just terrible. The Erawan Shrine is a peaceful symbol that so many of us have passed by while meandering around...
Ctrip Plays Santa to Air Passengers, Christmas Travel
Online travel site Ctrip is giving all travelers who book by November 21 and fly between December 1 and December 31 the chance to win prizes via...
Talking Travel: Trains, Automobiles, and Grasping the Gold
I'm gloating – I reached Premier Gold status in United Airlines' MileagePlus frequent flyer program. The most amazing thing about it is I can now...
Talking Travel: Learning a Lot on the Road
There's no better laboratory for learning how to travel than travel itself. Reading reviews, getting out on the road, staying in a variety of places...
Talking Travel: USD 291,000 Per Year for an Airbus A320 Captain
Greetings from 10,000 meters. Sometimes in order to make deadlines, it's necessary to use inflight Wi-Fi. United Airlines charges USD 16.99 for the...
Beijing-Bound Flight Returns to Washington, DC to Foil Kidnapping Attempt
A United Airlines flight originating at Washington, DC's Dulles International Airport and bound for Beijing returned after two-and-a-half hours of...
Talking Travel: Everyone's Flying to Boston, New Renaissance, and It's Cheap to Fly to Beijing on United
It's been a week of travel pornography here at the Talking Travel desk. I'll add one place to the list of last-minute destination choices for October...
Talking Travel: Good Flights to China, A Family Trip to Hangzhou, Air China Introduces Sky Chef
Sadly for those of us that live here, airlines would rather fly people to Beijing than fly us out of here. Fly from Chicago to Beijing on Delta...