UNITED AIRLINES NEWS & BONUSES
Earn Double Miles on:
-Through 12/18/99.  New routes to St. Thomas from Chicago and from Dulles. call 1-800-645-4502 ( code 35)
-Through 1/31/00.  Between Miami and Lima. You must register online. (MPN H69)
-Through 3/31/00.  Between  Dulles and Boston or  LaGuardia.  call 1-800-447-6772 (code 12)

Effective January 1, 2000, Preferred Hotels will become the 20th hotel partner of United's Mileage Plus program. As an introductory bonus, Mileage Plus members will earn 2,000 bonus miles with each paid stay at a Preferred hotel through March 31, 2000.  Members receive 500 miles per eligible stay beginning in April 2000.

On April 2, 2000, the airline will launch daily nonstop service from SFO to Seoul, Korea and  nonstop service to Shanghai.

UA is launching its first "Wine Festival," providing United's First Class customers with an even greater selection of the world's finest wines. The Wine Festival menu will be available to United's International First Class customers during the entire month of December and, while supplies last, into January.

United and Hilton have worked together to offer you a fantastic bonus. From now until 5/31/00, fly United and earn both United Mileage Plus miles and Hilton HHonors points. One point for each air mile. You must be a member of both plans to participate. To register for this promotion, call 800-930-3098. No hotel stays required, only available to US residents.

13 United MileagePlus Bonus Offers
 

UA AIRPORT MAP OF THE WEEK
New York John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport

• Rockefeller Plaza Christmas Tree
• National Tree at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
• Nuremberg Christkindlesmarket, Germany
• Messiahcam in JERUSALEM
• Holiday windows at Bloomingdales in New York City

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK   http://www.webflyer.com/@enroll/frenroll.htm
We got you hooked on frequent flyer programs, and now you've found a program you didn't think you needed to belong to. What to do? Let us take care of enrolling you! After all, you can't earn the miles unless you enroll in the program.
From Johnny Jet: This is a great resource for all the "rookies" starting to hit the road. Enroll in all the programs you think you will use, but try and stick to (as much as you can)  one airline, and hotel program.
 

LIFEMINDERS.COM
BREAK DOWN THE LANGUAGE BARRIER WITH THIS TRANSLATOR

POSITIVESPACE.COM

• Mexico Suspends Car Deposit Program
• Ticket Tricks - Agents won't book B to Bs, but why?
• Travelers should go slow with fitness flow

• TRAVELING AROUND THE MILLENNIUM...BE PREPARED!
• FOREIGN AIRLINES BETTER? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT
• AIRLINE STARTUP FAILURES - THE DEADBEAT GOES ON
• SENIORS: ADVENTURE TRAVEL FOR TRAVELERS OVER 50
• Use Holiday Shopping to Maximize Miles

WEBFLYER.COM
AWARD WATCH

YAHOO.COM

• Vanguard Airlines Last Minute Holiday Fares as Low as $59!
• U.S. Airways Strike Averted

CNN.COM
Too many 'back doors' left vulnerable at airports
 

MSNBC.COM
Gazing toward the future of travel

TRAVELCHANNEL.COM
Shop Till You Drop in Bangkok

AIRLINER WORLD
Line training

BETTER HOMES AND GARDEN
Packing Like a Pro

BUSINESS TRAVELER
The 11th Annual Reader Survey Awards

CONDE NAST TRAVELER
MILLENNIUM CELEBRATIONS IN EUROPE

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Shop the world—without leaving your computer.

OUTSIDE
When it comes to rafting, take all the wet you can get

TRAVEL HOLIDAY
BARBADOS: SUITE SEASON

BOSTON GLOBE

• It's ski time!
• Y2K celebrations: Big, little, and no bucks

DENVERPOST
Florida's good life happens in...Naples

HONOLULU ADVERTISER

• Surf Report
• Christmas Lights: Here’s a guide for your holiday holoholo

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Hotels and Their Secret Admirers

LONDON TIMES
PARTY 2000 COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU (events planned all over Britain and Ireland)
 

• Name your ski style--speedy or slow, sociable or solitary--it's all only a short drive from Salt Lake City
• A City Girl Learns About Taking to the Woods--Without Help From a Man
• Touring Hawaiian Coffee, Sugar Farms
• If Fares Drop, Fliers Are Due a Refund--Maybe

NEW YORK TIMES

• Treetop Bliss on Bali
• What's Doing in Auckland
• Rooms With Attitude

SYDNEYMORNINGHERALD
CANADA: The bear fish project

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

• Would You Spend $179 To Cavort With Dolphins?
• How to Beat the Clock And Avoid Jet Lag

• Activity-packed super-ships dump boredom out at sea
• 10 great places... To experience the past millennium
• Diamonds In the snow
• Y2K bug predicted to bite here, there

• Saturday start: United began daily non-stop service Saturday between Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.
• Flight Christmas: United's E-Fare sale cuts prices on international flights on 43 routes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Buy at www.ual.com by Friday at 11:59 p.m. PST. Travel must start on Dec. 24 or 25 with return travel by Jan. 1. Sample sale fare: San Francisco International-Taipei, $595 round trip.

Giveaways: TWA Aviators members can give frequent-flier miles to the Red Cross.

BESTFARES.COM

• Frequent Flyer Miles Piling Up? Various Charities Can Use Them:  United Airlines accepts miles with a minimum donation of 10,000 and funnels them to a variety of charities. Call 800-421-4655.
• Holiday Airline Bumping Survival Guide
• Mormons Ground 60,000 Missionaries During Millennium Week
• The Lawyers Weekly USA Says Frequent Flyer Miles Matter In Divorces
• Free Skating Rink Opens For Holiday Travelers At Milan's Airport
• The Pros & Cons Of E-Tickets For Millennium Travel
• Pack For A Pilgrimage To Jubilee 2000
• mETICKETs Offer Savings To Skiers & Snowboarders Nationwide
• Y2K jitters grounding many New Year's travellers
• Online Last-Minute Lear Jets Bookings At Discounts www.Skyjet.com now offers travelers the chance to book empty charter flights on business charters that often make return flights without any passengers.

This Week's Major Airline Internet Discounts

This Week's U.S. & Canada Hotel Internet Discounts

This Week's Car Rental Internet Discounts

This Week's International Hotel Internet Discounts
 

JOHNNYJETSETTER'S
Just got back from a stint in NYC while watching the news I heard about an interesting website...earthcam.com, this web site will show the New Years Eve celebration in various time zones.  They have cameras situated all over the world that will allow you to ring in the near year from what ever country you like.  They say that we can click to see different angles etc. I think it would pretty cool to login on our laptops from where ever we are sipping champagne to see how others are ringing in the new year.  Beth M.-Los Angeles
Beth,  Thanks for the tip. I checked the site out and it is very cool.  -Johnny Jet
 

TRAVEL QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Have a travel tip or a comment about this week’s issue? Send them to: johnny@johnnyjet.com
 

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