Upon arrival into Chicago, my original plan had been to go to T3 and check out the American Flagship Lounge. That wasn’t possible because when you’re in T5, you’re trapped because you can’t take the airside bus unless you have a connection, and you can’t enter another terminal with a T5 boarding pass. So thatContinue reading “April Europe Weekend/Review Trip! Part 1: Finnair”
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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”
Portland to San Francisco!
My first weekend trip of 2024 was with a pair of friends to Portland, Oregon. We picked Portland because it was included in a Southwest sale from LA and (in one direction) from Oakland. On the way back, however, Southwest didn’t have any good options for me to get back to Oakland, so instead, IContinue reading “Portland to San Francisco!”
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”
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”
Time for my yearly Breeze flight! (SFO-RIC)
Apparently, this post somehow didn’t save even though it came through as published, so let’s try again. Like last year, my final transcontinental flight of the year was to Richmond, VA. Also like last year, I flew the low-cost carrier, Breeze. Breeze was only founded in 2021 and only took delivery of its first A220sContinue reading “Time for my yearly Breeze flight! (SFO-RIC)”
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 7 (Egyptair A321 CAI-MAN)
Ok, so this flight is a very sore/touchy subject for Scott and me. We arrived at Cairo airport at around 9 pm for our 12:50 am flight. We were supposed to be flying Emirates First Class from Cairo to Dubai to London. However, Air Canada had messed up our tickets and so we couldn’t checkContinue reading “Thanksgiving 2023 EuroTrip: Part 7 (Egyptair A321 CAI-MAN)”
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)”
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