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# Pick a Frequent Flyer program | # Pick a Frequent Flyer program | ||
Do those three and you’re already in the 80th percentile for travel success. What follows below is travel | Do those three and you’re already in the 80th percentile for travel success. What follows below is travel brilliance. | ||
= Planning = | = Planning = | ||
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Even if you travel rarely, you'll eventually accrue enough mileage for free travel, and having a FF number makes online check-in easier. | Even if you travel rarely, you'll eventually accrue enough mileage for free travel, and having a FF number makes online check-in easier. | ||
If you travel often enough, though, (25k+/year on most airlines) you start earning preferred status. This is the difference between "scum" and " | If you travel often enough, though, (25k+/year on most airlines) you start earning preferred status. This is the difference between "scum" and "How can I help you?" You have shorter lines for agents, shorter lines for security, you board first. You get access to elite lounges while you wait, and free upgrades to business class to make the trip more pleasant. These are little niceties, but they add up, and make travel much nicer. You can often share status with someone less privileged, which means your spouse likes traveling with you more, too. | ||
== Check In Online == | == Check In Online == | ||
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* if you're coming from within Asia to Taipei, fly to Songshan Airport (TSA) instead | * if you're coming from within Asia to Taipei, fly to Songshan Airport (TSA) instead | ||
* if you have Star Alliance gold, there are multiple EVA lounges to choose from. The main one, with all the good food, is on the same side of the open (to the floor below) space as the tropical bar one, with entrance across the hallway from it (not across the open space) | * if you have Star Alliance gold, there are multiple EVA lounges to choose from. The main one, with all the good food, is on the same side of the open (to the floor below) space as the tropical bar one, with entrance across the hallway from it (not across the open space) | ||
== YVR Vancouver == | |||
* As airports go this one is a pretty beautiful. If you're departing to the US from Vancouver note that you will go through US customs and immigration at YVR, so arrive 2 hours before your scheduled departure time. | |||
= Hotels = | = Hotels = | ||