I started out my around the world trip with a Transatlantic flight from Chicago to Munich in United Global First Class. After a longer than usual flight from Washington-DCA to Chicago, I arrived at O’ Hare and met up with my good friend, who would be joining me for the entire trip to Europe and…
This morning, American Airlines announced its 2015 AAdvantage Loyalty Program for the combined American and US Airways. As an American elite, the program remains largely un-changed, and that’s a great thing! With that said, there are a few changes to the program that I’ll highlight in this post. The theme of the whole deal is that…
Well, it’s been an insanely busy week for me, as I got back into the swing of things at work, and in life in general. As such, I didn’t get to write as much as I wanted to, so here is a weekly round-up of some of the goings-ons in the World of travel, points…
Last week, I finished up my around the World trip by flying from Tokyo-Narita to Washington-Dulles in ANA First Class in its new ANA First Square product. How would I describe the experience in a word? Spectacular. The 12+ hour flight on this new, ANA B777-300ER will surely serve as the benchmark to which I…
Good Evening from THAI’s Royal First Class lounge in Bangkok. I’m about to hop a redeye flight to Shanghai, but wanted to share a few initial impressions from my flight last night from Munich to Bangkok in THAI Royal First Class. Overall, I was quite impressed. With everything… and I’m not even including the THAI ground…
Good afternoon from Munich! After four days here in Munich, I’ve finally acquired some wifi good enough for a post at the Le Meridien Munich. I put together some initial thoughts on the flight, but a full review is forthcoming. I arrived in Munich last Thursday on United flight 952 from Chicago on a three-class B777-200 in…
As I previously wrote, I will be embarking on a two-week journey around the World starting tonight. While I’m meeting twelve other friends in Munich, two of them will be joining me for our exploits in Asia. Though we all have somewhat different flights, we all did manage to get on the same THAI flight…
US Airways Dividend Miles are some of the easiest miles out there to accrue, and at least for now, the airline has a very rewarding award chart with several awesome hot spots that one can exploit to derive maximum value from their miles. Perhaps no award on the US Airways chart has more value than…
Three weeks ago, I flew to Anchorage for the weekend to kickoff my status challenge to American Executive Platinum. Well, today, I begin the last trip to finish that challenge of 25,000 Elite Qualifying Points in three months… only I’m completing this challenge in a mere 21 days! In order finish this challenge, I’ll be…
A week from today, I will be embarking on another around the world adventure — this time it will include a stop at one of my favorite places in the World — Munich during Oktoberfest. The Oktoberfest trip is one that I’ve taken the past four years, so it was a no-brainer to book a fifth…