Category Archives: Airlines

Asia, the Long Way: Turkish Business Class Tokyo to Istanbul

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chris

I left the United lounge shortly before the revised, scheduled boarding time.  The flight status TVs throughout the lounge had out of order signs next to them (despite being on) that didn’t exactly inspire my confidence.  Our departure was a … Continue reading →

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Asia, the Long Way: United Club Tokyo Narita

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Chris

Because of my short redeye into Tokyo, I actually wound up going to bed early and somehow managed to wake up after sleeping about 8 hours.  This left me with a few hours to kill in my hotel room, eating … Continue reading →

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Asia, the Long Way: Thai Business Class Bangkok to Tokyo

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Chris

For my hop to Tokyo, I selected the Thai-operated redeye. Having relaxed in the Thai business class lounge until 45 minutes before departure, I decided to head to my gate.  Boarding didn’t start until around 25 minutes before departure, leaving … Continue reading →

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Asia, the Long Way: Swiss Business Class Zürich to Bangkok

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Chris

Zürich Airport has a terrific aircraft observation deck prior to the main security checkpoints.  (Since it seems the emergency exits for it dump out onto the tarmac, the area has its own screening checkpoint.)  As I had some time to … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Chris

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

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Chris

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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Is it us, or is the world shrinking?

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Chris

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

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Chris

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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AA International First Class Lounge Los Angeles

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Chris

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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AA Flagship Check-in LAX

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Chris

American gave us a tour of their newly opened Flagship check-in area at LAX.  While normally reserved for Concierge Key members and passengers traveling in international or transcontinental, 3-cabin first class, they permitted us to come back to use the … Continue reading →

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