It’s not often that I deviate from United, but had a chance to do so a few days ago on a trip from New York to Los Angeles on American. I enjoyed it. One thing I appreciate about premium...
Why My Final Flight On Hong Kong Airlines Was The Best
I was hoping for a “superfecta” or “quadfecta” and experienced exactly that as I stepped onboard my final Hong Kong Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles. Four flights. Four different business class configurations! We all have different...
Pictures: United Airlines 787-10
United’s new Boeing 787-10s are set to enter service in January on premium transcontinental routes. Later in 2019, the airplane will fly international routes from Newark. United will take delivery of 14 787-10 aircraft over the next two years....
British Airways Releases 50,000 Extra Business Class Award Seats
British Airways has released thousands of additional business class award seats available for a limited time across a limited, but wide, date range. Through December 2nd, British Airways has made 50,000 extra Club World business class seats available for...
Dinner In Croatia Airlines Business Class
Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago. It may...
Lovely: I Screwed Up My Gulf Air 787-9 Trip
Well, so much for that review…. Several months back when American Airlines announced it would dissolve its partnership with Gulf Air, I booked a trip in late fall. For Saturday morning, as it turned out. I figured this would...
Cathay Pacific 747-400 Business Class Upper Deck Dining
Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago. This week...
Review: Air Dolomiti ERJ-195 Business Class Nice To Munich
While I did not expect to see Air Dolomiti, a regional Lufthansa subsidiary serving routes in Northern Italy, on a flight between France and Germany, I welcomed the experience. For reasons you’ll read below, I rate Air Dolomiti a...
Will United Remove Seats From Business Class?
Is United planning to remove some business class seats from its longhaul fleet? Yesterday I wrote about United’s healthy third quarter earnings and rosy outlook for the remainder of the year. I finally had a chance to read over...
Lufthansa Puts Lipstick On A Pig
If ever the “lipstick on a pig” metaphor were appropriate, this is the case. I recently wrote about the new service Lufthansa will operate between Frankfurt and Pune, India. The route has traditionally been operated by a Privatair 737,...
Review: United 777-200 Polaris Business Class Chicago To Frankfurt
I’ve written this review in a more casual way than my usual trip reports. Hopefully it will be helpful to some of you. Flying United is like driving my car…I do it so often it just become second nature....
La Compagnie Reveals New Business Class Seat
Earlier today I wrote about the new lie-flat business class seat that will appear on La Compagnie’s new A321neos. The seats have now been revealed. La Compagnie just posted the following image on Instagram: Thus, we now have our...
Review: ANA 777-300ER Business Class Tokyo Haneda – Chicago
As part of my Hong Kong status run, I returned home via Tokyo on ANA in business class. Here is my review of the product and service aboard ANA’s 777-300ER from Haneda to Chicago. If you are considering booking...
Review: ANA Business Class Lounge Tokyo Haneda (HND)
My long journey home from a status run to Hong Kong included flights from Hong Kong to Chicago on ANA via Tokyo Haneda. I had a chance to try the ANA lounge and was impressed with the offering. If...
My Hong Kong Airlines Trip Just Got Sweeter!
Last month I took advantage of a great business class fare on Hong Kong Airlines for an upcoming trip to Asia. But now the trip just got even sweeter. What can beat a $688 round-trip business class tickets to...
Review: Air France 777-300ER Business Class Paris To Dubai
My first ever flight on Air France presented a startling revelation, to me at least: not only was Air France acceptable, it was excellent. I arrived in CDG’s Terminal 2 early and proceeded to the “Sky Priority” check-in area....
Review: Aeromexico 787-9 Business Class Mexico City To Paris
My late-night flight from Mexico City to Paris represented the perfect flight-time for sleeping…but would service suffer as a result? I lined up at the gate one hour prior to departure, hoping to be first onboard. Boarding began about...
Review: United Polaris 777-300ER San Francisco to Hong Kong
As a lifelong American Airlines customer and frequent Cathay Pacific flyer, United had a long way to go to impress me with their Polaris business class product. They did. Here is another leg in my status run to Hong...
Mileage Runs May Be Dead, Status Runs Still Alive
Mileage runs were the hallmark of travel enthusiasts who found more to gain from unnecessary trips than not taking them. Elite status runs have the same principle but different result, taking unnecessary trips to retain or “level up” your...
I Loved Flying Air France (777-300 Business Class)
First it was Aeromexico, now Air France. SkyTeam carriers have really impressed me so far on this trip. I just had a wonderful flight aboard the 777-300ER in business class on Air France. Air France features a reverse herringbone...
