I’ve flown Lufthansa first class a couple of times before (see A380 trip report; previous 747 trip report; and (gasp!) a coach trip report) and had good experiences. I’m not a huge Lufthansa fan boy, but the separate seat and bed combo on the upper deck of the 747 is my favorite first class hard product. You…
I’m about to fly AA 137 from Dallas to Hong Kong on one of AA’s newish 77Ws in business class. I paid coach and applied a SWU, and my upgrade cleared way back when I purchased my ticket. But here are the seat maps for the flight about 1 hour prior to departure: While I’m super…
After an ordinary United domestic business class flight from SFO, I landed in YVR and headed to the Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge. This was the first Air Canada lounge I’ve been to. Since I generally assume that Canada is identical to the US except that it’s colder, has more maple syrup, and politer people, I…
Earlier this year, I took a two-week trip to Southeast Asia, spending time in Hanoi, Siem Reap, and Singapore. To get to Hanoi, I booked a pre-devaluation United first class award to Southeast Asia for 70k miles. The original routing was SFO-LHR on United first class, LHR-BKK on Thai first class, and then BKK-HAN on…
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…
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a restaurant and just been like, “wow, this place is good” (off the top of my head, the last place I felt this about was probably Barley Swine in Austin, which I ate at 2 years ago, if that tells you anything). Ester has delicious food, and I…
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…
