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…
I write this post on Saturday morning — not from Iguazu Falls as planned, but from New York – JFK, Terminal 2. That’s right. I never made it to Iguazu Falls. There were a ton of little things that went wrong with my trip, and they all caught up with me Friday afternoon in Sao…
After much internal debate, I’ve finally decided to go through with my trip this coming long weekend to Iguazu Falls via pretty much every major airport in South America. Am I insane? Probably. Back this Spring, LAN offered a very, very cheap rate from New York to Iguazu Falls on both LAN and TAM metal. …
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…
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…
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…