Switching back to my April Europe trip, we have another intra-European Business Class flight on Finnair! Finnair’s strongest offerings are, like most airlines, from their main hub. Budapest is not a particularly large airport, but it does offer multiple lounges. The Skycourt lounge was the default lounge for Finnair, but there was also the PlazaContinue reading “April Europe Weekend/Review Trip! Part 3: Budapest back to Helsinki”
Category Archives: Lounge visit
The Chase Sapphire Lounge: Boston!
After my great LAX-BOS flight in Flagship First, I decided to do it again in reverse! Boston does not have any special American Airlines lounges, so instead I visited the Chase Sapphire Lounge. The lounge is located between terminals B and C, and American uses terminal B, so that’s convenient! Except that it’s a solidContinue reading “The Chase Sapphire Lounge: Boston!”
April Europe Weekend/Review Trip! Part 2: Helsinki to Budapest
Upon arrival into Helsinki, I proceeded directly to Finnair’s non-Schengen Platinum Wing lounge. This was my first visit to the lounge since June of 2023, when I flew London to Berlin via Helsinki. The non-Schengen Finnair lounge is located very centrally, and I was inside the lounge within a couple minutes of deplaning. This loungeContinue reading “April Europe Weekend/Review Trip! Part 2: Helsinki to Budapest”
April Europe Weekend/Review Trip! Part 0: Austin Airport
I’m doing these posts a bit out of order to keep the content varied so that I don’t post too many American Airlines flights back-to-back. I took a trip in April that somewhat spiraled out of control because more and more flights kept getting tacked onto it. The fun part of the trip (and theContinue reading “April Europe Weekend/Review Trip! Part 0: Austin Airport”
Let’s squeeze in one final 2023 flight: DCA-HPN
When planning out the end of my 2023 travels, I had expected the flight from SFO to Richmond, VA to be my last 2023 flight on the blog. However, I had one final interesting flight to share on December 31. I flew from Washington DC National Airport to White Plains, NY for a New YearsContinue reading “Let’s squeeze in one final 2023 flight: DCA-HPN”
Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 8-1 London Heathrow’s Terminal 5 Galleries First Lounge
My primary airline status is Gold Status through British Airways. This status provides me with Oneworld Emerald status when flying on any Oneworld airline. The two big perks of Oneworld Emerald status are access to First Class check-ins and First Class lounges. These are incremental perks over the lower Oneworld Sapphire perks that include accessContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 8-1 London Heathrow’s Terminal 5 Galleries First Lounge”
Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 6 (Etihad narrow body business to Cairo)
At this point, I realize that I’ve really been powering through all these flight reports, but it’s March and I’m still working through my last 2023 flights. Next year, I think I will just do my “plans for 2025” posts at the beginning of the year even if I haven’t finished the 2024 flights. OrContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 6 (Etihad narrow body business to Cairo)”
Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 5-1 (Etihad First Class Part 1: the ground)
After the short, uneventful flight from Frankfurt to London, Scott and I took a connection bus from Terminal 2 to Terminal 4. There was a bus already waiting when we arrived at the bus stop, which was awesome. The ride was not short over to T4 (which is on the other side of Heathrow fromContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 5-1 (Etihad First Class Part 1: the ground)”
Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 4 (Frankfurt lounges + FRA – LHR)
Upon arrival in Frankfurt off my economy class flight from Venice, I made my way through the Schengen exit checks. Scott had already arrived that morning and was relaxing in the Maple Leaf Lounge. Since I was departing Frankfurt on a Lufthansa (international) business class flight, I was eligible to use the lounge under Star AllianceContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 4 (Frankfurt lounges + FRA – LHR)”
Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 3 (VCE-FRA: Marco Polo Lounge + an Economy flight)
After a long weekend in Venice with my friend (whose name is also Michael), it was time to begin the most chaotic part of my trip: the journey from Venice to Cairo via Frankfurt, London, and Abu Dhabi. Scott and I were unable to book my flight to Cairo as starting in Venice, so IContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 3 (VCE-FRA: Marco Polo Lounge + an Economy flight)”
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