I recently flew Spirit and avoided most of the fees–I printed my boarding pass before getting to the airport, packed only a backpack that could fit under the seat in front of me, didn’t get an assigned seat until check in–but I didn’t avoid the online ticketing fee (aka “passenger usage fee) of about $17. If…
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the JAL First Class Lounge at Narita is the most underrated lounge I’ve ever been to. No one ever talks about JAL generally, and this lounge never makes it onto people’s top 10 lists, but I LOVED this lounge. Now, this lounge doesn’t have private…
The second oneworld lounge I hit up in Tokyo Narita (NRT) was the Cathay Pacific lounge. Honestly, unless you’re looking to steal food (easy here because there’s lots of packaged food), I would skip this lounge. For one, the lounge a little dark and claustrophobic compared to the AA or JAL lounges. The windows don’t let…
I’d been to the United Club, ANA Suite and Business Class Lounges, and the Korean Air lounge, but I’d never been to any of the oneworld lounges at Tokyo Narita until this trip, so I decided to do a little bit of lounge hopping. I started with the American Airlines Admirals Club, which must be…
In this post, you’re going to get a 2-for-1 deal! This is a combined review of AA 169 and AA 170 in business class, which is Los Angeles (LAX) to Tokyo Narita (NRT) and back on Boeing 777-200s. I booked these tickets in coach and applied SWUs, which cleared about 3 days in advance in…
I’m sitting in the Qantas Domestic Business Class Lounge at Melbourne, having just got off QF 94 LAX to MEL in first class on the A380. Here are some of my first impressions. 1) The A380 is still my favorite aircraft. There’s something so magical and impressive about the beast, and there are SO many…
This next set of trip report posts is from February of this year when I went to Tokyo to cheer on some friends who were running the Tokyo Marathon. I booked flights on American Airlines of SFO-LAX-NRT and back and applied SWUs to the outbound and return that cleared about 3 days prior to departure…
Australia has always been on my list of places to go, but it just hasn’t been at the top. But a couple of months ago, Qantas very briefly released some first class space on their A380s during Australia’s winter, so I decided to book a flight and figure out the rest since I can cancel…
Introduction Cathay Pacific Lounge San Francisco Cathay Pacific First Class San Francisco to Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Lounge The Pier Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Business Class Hong Kong to Bangkok Millennium Hilton Bangkok Cooking with Poo Overnight Train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai Le Meridien Chiang Mai Patara Elephant Farm Bangkok Airways Economy Class Chiang…
Introduction Cathay Pacific Lounge San Francisco Cathay Pacific First Class San Francisco to Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Lounge The Pier Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Business Class Hong Kong to Bangkok Millennium Hilton Bangkok Cooking with Poo Overnight Train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai Le Meridien Chiang Mai Patara Elephant Farm Bangkok Airways Economy Class Chiang…
