Qatar Airways first revealed their A380 schedule back in late April, when they announced that they'd inaugurate A380 service between Doha and London Heathrow as of June 17, 2014.
As soon as they updated the route to reflect the A380 they stopped releasing first and business class award space on those flights. That trend continued when they announced A380 service to Paris, and has also continued throughout the delivery delays.
As it stands now, the Qatar Airways A380 inaugural flight to London is scheduled for October 10, 2014, while the A380 inaugural to Paris is scheduled for October 16, 2014. However, I would bet that's not actually realistic, and would optimistically guess it will be closer to the end of the year before Qatar Airways actually starts flying the A380.
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Last week American Express opened their latest airline lounge, which is the Centurion Lounge at New York LaGuardia Airport.
It's interesting to see a credit card company get in the business of building airport lounges, though I think it's brilliant. Over the past couple of years quite a bit of value has been lost in terms of the lounge privileges of the American Express Platinum Card. It used to get you access to American Admirals Clubs and US Airways Clubs, though that was discontinued in March. Furthermore, guesting privileges have been reduced at Delta SkyClubs as of May.
So now they're building their own lounges. As it stands their US lounge locations include Dallas Ft. Worth Airport and Las Vegas. Furthermore, over the coming months they'll be opening lounges in Miami and San Francisco.
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Over the weekend I asked you guys how I should fly back from Europe to the US, and after reading your feedback went with the majority suggestion, which was Singapore Airlines business class from Frankfurt to New York. I transferred points from Chase Ultimate Rewards to book this ticket, which I accrued using the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, Ink Plus® Business Credit Card.
Confession time -- I came into this flight expecting to be disappointed. For the past five years, all my longhaul travel on Singapore has been in first class. What ultimately makes Singapore Airlines so special is the service, and I figured that there's no way they could deliver on that with an 86 seat business class cabin. I even selected a seat in the last row of business class, figuring it would give me the slowest service and also a good overview of what can be expected.
Boy, was I wrong. Really, really wrong. This flight was possibly on par, if not better, than most of my Singapore Airlines first class flights.
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