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Europe for the Holidays: Lufthansa First Class Frankfurt to New York

Having been escorted to a waiting car from the lounge, we quickly drove along the terminal past Lufthansa’s various widebodies waiting to depart to far-off lands.  

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Europe for the Holidays: An Introduction

For Christmas and New Years, I decided I would try booking earlier than last year (the Friday before Christmas weekend).  This didn’t actually prove to be particularly useful:  My final outbound flight wasn’t booked until the night before.  To give … Continue reading

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Italy: American Airlines Business Class Milan to New York

I booked this trip about two weeks out for my first flight and about three weeks out for my return segment.  My upgrade for this flight cleared a mere 12 hours prior to departure.

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A Need for Speed: American Airlines Flagship Lounge New York

I wagered on clearing my upgrade to London and lost.  (I successfully “won” in September 2012 on a similar-looking trip to Dublin on American Airlines.)  While the 777-300ER has a new plane smell to it, that’s about the only thing … Continue reading

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Burning A Hole In My Pocket: Swiss Business Class New York to Zürich

My trip to Asia last year involved a terrific long-haul flight from Zurich to Bangkok on Swiss, spurring me to choose their business class product again for my flight to Europe.  While it’s definitely hard to find fault with a … Continue reading

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Burning A Hole In My Pocket: Swiss Business Class Lounge New York Kennedy

With my flight to Switzerland departing just after 10PM, I timed my arrival to JFK around 8:30PM.  With vast swaths of flights bound for Europe around that time, Terminal 4 was best described as a sea of humanity. Once past … Continue reading

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A Few Miles More: American Airlines Business Class New York to Los Angeles

A few minutes after I booked this trip, I called the Executive Platinum desk to apply one of my systemwide upgrades expiring at the end of February 2013 to my reservation to upgrade my OGG-DFW-LGA segments.  At the time, the … Continue reading

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“I Need 4 Volunteers To Sit In First Class”

Since moving to New York, I’ve flown to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving.  To save on airfare, I taken to flying on Thanksgiving morning itself.  While last year’s trip was an uneventful journey of domestic first class, this past year’s was … Continue reading

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American Airlines Business Class Brussels to New York

With boarding for American’s flight to New York called in the British Airways lounge, it was time to head to the gate. As our upgrades had yet to clear, we asked after having our boarding passes scanned.  One seat was … Continue reading

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Los Angeles. the Transatlantic Way: American Airlines Business Class New York to London

When this trip was booked in July, I was unable to locate any confirmable upgrade space around the dates we were interested in traveling, so I went ahead and booked the trip with waitlisted systemwide upgrades. While I would normally … Continue reading

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