I was actually dreading this flight – 100%. At a scheduled 4:15, this “red-eye” flight to Shanghai was too short for a decent night’s rest. It was also in a slanted business class seat, which I was pretty worried about for sleeping. I typically hate these short red-eye flights, but when booking the award back…
We arrived at Munich’s Franz Josef Strauss International Airport over three hours before our flight since we were just ready to relax a little bit before the flight. There was already a queue formed when we arrived, but we were the first guests in line for Royal First Class. On this flight was myself and…
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…
After two weeks and just under 22,000 miles of travel around the world, I’m finally getting acclimated to the real world after arriving back in Washington from Tokyo last week. I’d initially planned to publish trip reports as I went on this trip, but after a pretty intense first few days of Oktoberfest in Munich, that whole…
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…
Earlier this week, I got to experience a relatively quick flight in Air China’s Forbidden Pavilion First Class on a flight between Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport and Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. This 2.5 hour flight was booked as part of my around the world trip using US Airways miles. Compared to my flight in…
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…
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 review of our flight back to the States from Sydney to San Francisco in United Global First Class on the B747-400. United Global First is an extremely comfortable way to cross the Pacific, though the seat privacy and catering lags in comparison to first-rate international carriers.