Here’s the best travel advice, tips and tricks, the highlights of View from the Wing out of 204 posts in January. Last month I provided the best travel tips from December. Before that I collated the best travel tips from November. Here’s where you can find the very best travel posts from October, here’s the […]
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A few weeks ago I posted about the new “documentary” about Bangkok Airport, entitled “The Airport Of Smiles: Bangkok Airport.” I L-O-V-E Thailand — it’s one of the most entertaining and beautiful places on earth, the people are lovely (though there are also lots of scams), and it’s cheap. So I figured I’d love the…
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On March 10th, there’s non-stop award availability in economy from Los Angeles to Seoul on Asiana. But searching United.com for non-stop awards I get this message: Indeed, search for award space between Seoul (Asiana’s hub) and Bangkok (Thai Airways’ hub), I am presented with options only for Thai on United’s website. But if I search […]
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Two women from Arizona were convicted, sentenced, fined and deported from Cambodia after taking naked photos of their backsides in an ancient Siem Reap temple. The Siem Reap provincial court said the sisters were each given a suspended term of six months in jail and fined 1 million riel ($315) for taking nude photos at […]
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Over the past week we've been celebrating seven years of blogging at One Mile At A Time, with a series of contests and prizes.
It has been a pretty fun week, with giveaways every day, and I feel I've gotten to know you guys better as you've shared your best mileage redemptions, some incredible photos from your travels, heartfelt travel memories, hilarious photo captions, insights into what you enjoy most here on the blog, and what your travel goals are.
For me most of the fun of writing this blog comes from interacting with you guys, so this week has been especially awesome.
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I'm presently at the Grand Hyatt Dubai (my first time staying at a Dubai Hyatt property that isn't the Park Hyatt), and am having a lovely stay.
Tonight I went to the gym (unrelated tangent, but there were more people cruising there than on Royal Caribbean -- goodness gracious!), and when I got back to my room, the door wouldn't open.
I was kind of miffed, since it was the second time during my stay that my key stopped working. I didn't have ID on me or anything, but fortunately the guy that checked me in was at the front desk, and he remembered me.
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Late in the week The New York Times ran an article entitled "Open-Skies Agreement Challenged."
It tackles a topic that isn't exactly new, but sure is interesting.
Much of the growth in the global airline industry has happened thanks to open-skies agreements, which has opened up more international routes for more carriers. It's a win-win, both for the airlines and for consumers:
"For more than two decades, domestic airlines and successive administrations have pushed for, and achieved, broad international agreements that have fostered greater competition, lower airfares and more flights to hundreds of destinations like Tokyo, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro."
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Back in April of last year, I wrote Five Times Consumers Won Against Frequent Flyer Program Changes. In the aftermath of American’s elimination of stopovers on international awards at the international gateway city and elimination of distance-based awards, I wrote about when consumer uproar caused American to never implement an announced $5 award redemption fee. […]
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I've been to Dubai well over a dozen times, but up until this visit I've never actually been to the Mall of the Emirates. When I visit Dubai I tend to usually not go far past the downtown area, since I find Dubai Marina to be rather boring. Even in downtown Dubai there are some great views, like from the 123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa.
However, yesterday I finally visited the Mall of the Emirates. The mall itself is quite boring -- I prefer Dubai Mall -- but it has one really unique feature. It's home to Ski Dubai, which is an indoor ski slope. Because when you're in the middle of the desert, who wouldn't want a winter wonderland?
Most exciting to me wasn't the ski slope as such, but rather the nightly Frozen singalong and photo ops with Olaf -- he's my spirit snowman (he must be especially happy in Dubai, given his climate preferences). Almost worth the hefty price of admission in and of itself!
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Benjamin is taking me on another amazing trip to countries I've always wanted to see (I still wish to visit India someday)! This time, on the Airbus A380. I'm so humbled and excited to spend at least two weeks with him. Thank you, lovebug, for putting up with me for so long.
It all started at the gate in Dallas watching the crew board the Airbus A380. They looked so professional wearing their red hats and beige scarfs, smiling all over their faces with good posture.
Once I entered the first class cabin I was flabbergasted. The glamor, color variation, chic and shine, made me speechless. The cabin seemed bigger, too, which I believe is due to the flat overhead compartments.
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News and notes from around the interweb: Thai Airways is getting a bailout a bailout from its military government. They’re being forced to cut unprofitable activities. Its plans include ending Moscow, Madrid, and Johannesburg service. They’re getting rid of 44 planes but will still take delivery of 20 Airbus A350s through 2019. (Mostly they’ll drop […]
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Let me say upfront that I didn't complain and have no intent of complaining after the fact, but figured it was an interesting question.
I recently spent a few nights at the Grand Hyatt Muscat, which was absolutely lovely. Oman is gorgeous, and truly what one would assume the Middle East "should" be like. I can't recommend it enough, but more on that later.
Before I get too much into that, my room at the hotel faced nearby houses, and for the last two days of our stay they seemed to be demolishing the building right next to the hotel. Like, the building was literally in one piece when we arrived, and looked like a bomb went off inside it when we left.
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If you’re sitting in the window seat and flames start to appear to be coming off the wings of your Airbus A320, is the correct thing to do: Inform a flight attendant Scream Pray Take out your cell phone and start shooting video? Number 4 is of course correct. Although I would venture to add […]
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