I've already written a bit about this flight on the days following the inaugural, as follows:
-- Qatar Airways A350 Business Class Inaugural Flight
-- Flying With His Excellency Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways' CEO
So in this trip report I'll focus mostly on the things I didn't write about in great detail at the time.
I managed to be the first aboard the Qatar Airways A350, and quickly snagged a few pictures of the cabin.
Qatar Airways' A350 features a total of 36 seats. Each seat features direct aisle access, so the configuration is 1-2-1. The forward cabin consists of six rows, then there's the entrance by the second set of doors, and behind that is another three rows of seating.
The post Review: Qatar Airways Business Class A350 Doha To Frankfurt appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
There’s a fun trick that can help you save hundreds of dollars on your next long flight—but it’s a little complicated and requires a bit of work.Bloggers get hate mail over sharing this tip (I’m not kidding), presumably because some people feel entitled to keep secrets to themselves. In my opinion, the only reason this loophole hasn’t been closed has nothing to do with its public knowledge but rather that it takes effort and attention to benefit from it. Basically, "fuel dumping" is a ticketing strategy to help you strip the fuel surcharges from certain international airfares by adding on an extra, unused segment to the end of the trip.Reader Mike asked, I’ve booked myself a flight to Hawaii but having trouble finding a good one home in F. I’m looking at AS,AA & UA since I have points for all & UA seems to have the most options in general, just not to MSP. My idea is to do separate award searches to […]
The post To Redeem Awards, You Must Find the Flights Yourself and Spoon Feed Them to an Agent appeared first on View from the Wing.
Reader Carol asked, When I try to make a reservation using my American Airline miles, there’s always a fee of $500-$1200 included. Do you know why? Yes, I do know why! It’s because you’re looking at award tickets involving travel on British Airways. And because awards on British Airways incur fuel surcharges. The idea is […]
The post I’m Using Miles: Why Do My Award Tickets Have Such High Fees? appeared first on View from the Wing.
While I spend a lot of time writing about credit cards, I've actually not applied for that many credit cards the past year or so. I'm not sure why. I've been living in hotels and have been happy with my overall card portfolio. So I guess I've just been complacent.
This past Friday I planned on applying for a US Airways MasterCard before the opportunity went away, and got instantly approved. So I figured I might as well apply for a few more cards that I've been eying for a while.
In the end I applied for five cards, all of which I got approved for (eventually).
Here are the five cards I applied for:
The post My Latest Round Of Credit Card Applications appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
On March 13, American sent out word that the American and US Airways frequent flyer programs would be combined within 30 days. Or in American parlance, that’s when they’d move to ‘Single Frequent Flyer Program’ (SFFP). When the 2015 program and details of how the US Airways and American programs would be combined were released […]
The post American and US Airways Expect to Merge Frequent Flyer Programs in Just 6 Days! appeared first on View from the Wing.