I had an interesting check-in experience at the American Express Centurion Lounge in Dallas last week. I’ve come to expect meeting readers in airport lounges, it’s great fun and I’m fortunate it seems to happen in almost every lounge — whether it’s the Singapore Airlines Private Room or the American Airlines Admirals Club in Austin, […]
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I flew American into Mobile, Alabama. But to stick with them for the return I’d have had to spend an extra 3 hours in the airport. That’s way too much time to spend in the MAA Executive Lounge. There were Delta options, but they were at least 50% more expensive. Now, I made a point […]
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Hello from somewhere over the Atlantic!
This week I flew to Doha for the Qatar A350 inaugural flight, and will have a full report in the coming days. If you're following me on Instagram or Facebook you already know there were some interesting personalities on board, and I have some great stories.
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Tyler Cowen once wrote that when you fly, you may be more expensive for airlines operating more flights, and concomitant emissions. A simple model of route expansion is that higher demand increases the number of total flights by some probability. For the system as a whole, the decisive flying unit has to come somewhere and […]
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There are abundant opportunities at the moment to redeem miles for Etihad’s incredible A380 First Apartments.
This is the case both between Abu Dhabi and London, as well as between Abu Dhabi and Sydney, once that route begins to be operated by an A380 starting in June.
So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been asked on a daily basis what the best A380 First Apartment seats are.
Etihad’s A380 First Apartment cabin is innovative, as it features just a single aisle.
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News and notes from around the interweb: I’m giving away 5 prizes each of a $200 gift card and top tier elite status with National Car Rental. Leave a comment in the entry thread, that’s all you have to do to enter. There are surprisingly few entries so far, which makes chances of winning pretty […]
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On Thursday I wrote a post entitled "Are Emirates First Class Redemptions Using Alaska Miles Going Away?"
Basically Alaska Mileage Plan doesn't seem to have access to any Emirates first class award availability for travel after March 28, 2015. Travel in Emirates first class is one of my favorite uses of Alaska Mileage Plan miles, so it would be a real shame if that opportunity went away.
I had reached out to an Alaska spokesperson earlier in the week regarding the situation. While Alaska didn't initially seem to be aware of the availability discrepancy, they are now, and are reaching out to Emirates to try and rectify the situation, which they believe to be a glitch.
Here's an official statement from an Alaska spokesperson regarding the situation:
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I like booking airline reservations through online travel sites like Orbitz, rather than directly, because it allows me to quintuple dip: My usual frequent flyer miles My usual points from credit card spend on the purchase A rebate for going through a shopping portal The online booking site’s rewards. Right now booking airline reservations through […]
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I'm rarely in one timezone for more than a few days, so I'm often asked how I deal with jetlag. The answer is coffee. Lots and lots and lots of coffee. All day. Every day.
That's why I write quite a bit about hotel coffee. When you're jetlagged and constantly in different timezones, you notice the oddities of how different hotels approach coffee.
Some hotels offer crap in-room coffee.
Some offer good in-room coffee.
And some offer coffee in the lobby.
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Leaving Mobile, Alabama I decided to visit the Mobile Airport Authority Executive Lounge. That’s one readers of my lounge reviews might not have been expecting. Of course, I didn’t even realize that the Mobile, Alabama airport had a lounge. Let alone that it’s free, if you know how to access it. This is an airport-run […]
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Airlines are slowly retiring the gas-guzzling queen of the skies, the Boeing 747 (the pretty ones are always the thirstiest, eh?).
As an aviation geek it's tough to not get at least a little bit sentimental about it. Many of us grew up flying the 747 and associate many of our first longhaul journeys with the plane, so seeing them slowly scrapped and dumped in the desert is like losing an old friend.
The only good thing about 747 retirement is that we seem to get a cool "farewell" video from each airline whenever it happens.
Most recently, EVA Air has posted a 747-400 farewell video on YouTube:
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