Author Archives: Chris

The Bicycles of Copenhagen

As it turns out, I do more than fly around the world in premium cabins and sit in airport lounges.   I leave the airport and wander around my destinations.  

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Asia, the Long Way: SAS Scandinavian Lounge Copenhagen and Swiss Business Class Copenhagen to Zürich

With an hour and a half to kill before my flight, I popped into the SAS Lounge at Copenhagen Airport. As a Star Gold member, I was admitted to the Scandinavian lounge area rather than the Business Class lounge. While … Continue reading

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Asia, the Long Way: United BusinessFirst Newark to Copenhagen

When I was booking my trip in December, I was squeezed by two factors:  Limited advanced business class award availability and increasing swaths of fuel surcharges on many Star Alliance carriers for Aeroplan awards.  For the outbound leg, the former … Continue reading

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Hyatt Platinum Trial

One Mile at a Time mentions that Hyatt is offering a 90-day trial of its mid-tier Platinum status for Visa Signature card holders.  Notably, Platinum status comes with free internet access when staying at Hyatts.  

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Asia, the Long Way: An Introduction

As I alluded to earlier, I booked a second business class Star Alliance award with Aeroplan in December during the business class for the price of coach “glitch.”  Coupled with the Aeroplan transfer promotion, the award cost 50k Membership Rewards … Continue reading

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Hyatt Regency Santa Clara

As a result of some plans to take the Amtrak Coast Starlight from San Jose to Los Angeles not going quite to plan (I would have only had a few hours in Los Angeles to sleep before catching a plane … Continue reading

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Is it us, or is the world shrinking?

As one of the gotchas of the switch over to the legacy Continental systems of the merged United Airlines, the powers which be decided to reduce the distances between many city-pairs.  While some of these were understandable changes (when the … Continue reading

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First World Problems

Admittedly, much of my discussion on this blog frequently focuses on very first world problems.  For example, my upgrade did not clear on my American flight to San Francisco last night.  (It’s hard to complain when I was on a … Continue reading

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Jetblue 20% Off Sale

I’m a bit late to the party, but Jetblue is having a 20% off sale on flights between 5/1 and 6/13 booked today.

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AA International First Class Lounge Los Angeles

As an additional perk to those of us flying home on American, they gave us access to the International First Class lounge at LAX.

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