After exiting the lounge and scanning my boarding pass at the gate, it was time to begin the final part of the journey: heading to my friends’ wedding! I boarded the plane through door 2 and then turned left into the mini Club World cabin. My flight was on BA’s 777-300ER, which is its biggestContinue reading “June EuroTrip Part 4B: London to New York (Club World)”
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June EuroTrip Part 3: Milan to London
On my way back from Milan, I had intentionally set up an overnight layover in London, since British Airways tickets let you take a free stopover in London. This “stopover” was technically just a layover, however, because I stayed in London for less than 24 hours. Specifically, this meant that I didn’t need to payContinue reading “June EuroTrip Part 3: Milan to London”
June EuroTrip Part 2: LHR to Milan Linate… in “Euro Traveller”
After about 4 days in England, it was time for a short 2-day trip to Milan, Italy (LIN). The only reason for this trip was to reposition for my trip back to the US to take advantage of cheaper fares when leaving some European airports compared to starting in the US or UK. Because IContinue reading “June EuroTrip Part 2: LHR to Milan Linate… in “Euro Traveller””
American Express UK British Airways credit cards
It’s been a long time since I have talked about UK credit cards, but on a recent trip to the UK (which will probably come up on the blog in a couple months), British Airways was pushing their credit cards, and I remembered I should revisit these credit cards. There are two version, a £0Continue reading “American Express UK British Airways credit cards”
Flagship First on my favorite route: LAX-BOS
As regular readers will know, American Airlines is eliminating its Flagship First Class product by the end of this year. However, due to continued delays at both Airbus and Boeing, no official date has been set. The plan is to remove Flagship First from existing aircraft once American Airlines starts taking delivery of its newContinue reading “Flagship First on my favorite route: LAX-BOS”
Elite status and wallet plans: 2024
Now that 2023 has come to a close, I thought I should do an elite status and wallet plan for 2024. I last wrote a wallet plan quite a while ago, so I’m due for an update. I’ll first talk about the credit cards I plan to use and then the elite statuses I’ll have in 2024.Continue reading “Elite status and wallet plans: 2024”
2023 retrospective
I’m a bit late this year on the retrospective summary because of having to deal with some backend technical issues on the blog. The good news is that I’ve now uploaded all my 2023 flights of note onto the blog. So now, it’s time to take a look back through the year. I use aContinue reading “2023 retrospective”
Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 8-2 London to San Francisco (The End)
After exiting the Galleries First lounge, it was time to return to the United States finally. At this point, I had flown just over 14 000 of the total nearly 20 000 miles of the trip, and so I was ready for my final flight. And this flight was actually simple unlike the previous ones:Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 8-2 London to San Francisco (The End)”
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 2 EuroBiz (LHR-VCE)
At the end of the last post, I was just about to start my connection in London. And you know, what? I had probably the smoothest connection in Heathrow I’ve ever had. I got off the plane, walked directly to transfers, scanned my boarding pass, and then cleared security. It worked exactly how it was supposed to. There were plentyContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 2 EuroBiz (LHR-VCE)”
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