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Burning A Hole In My Pocket: Lufthansa Business Class Munich to Newark

Having enjoyed my time in the lounge, I made my way to the end of the concourse to catch my flight to Newark. Ordinarily, airport security abroad is a joy.  For our flight, bound to the United States, we got … Continue reading

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Burning A Hole In My Pocket: Swiss Senator Lounge Zürich and Lufthansa Business Class Zürich to Munich

Prior to passing through security, I took a moment to go visit the observation terrace.  The weather outside left a bit to be desired for visibility, but fortunately, most of the observation area is covered. By virtue of having Star … 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: An Introduction

In mid-March, I found myself with Good Friday off without a trip to go on.  As I became spoiled last year by $440 trips to Europe, I wasn’t thrilled by the $1000 coach fares available for a simple weekend trip.  … 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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Los Angeles. the Transatlantic Way: An Introduction

Back in July, a brief fare war broke out across the domestic US carriers for travel from the United States to Ireland in the fall.  Around that time, I wrote a post discussing the process of finding an itinerary to … Continue reading

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A Daytime p.s. Business Experience

This year, I’ve largely shifted my New York-San Francisco/Los Angeles trips to American as I’ve been greatly enjoying a phenomenal complimentary upgrade rate.  With my booked September travel completing my Executive Platinum re-qualification, I’ve begun to switch my attention to United. For most of … Continue reading

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