Airline news and reviews.
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” Haruki Murakami writes this in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I somehow doubt he was talking about a mileage run. And yet, the quote sticks. I haven’t had to worry about a mileage run in a couple of years although I’ve sometimes done them anyway…
I often catch myself thinking “wouldn’t it be great if air travel could be more aesthetically pleasing?” Yes, I can escape to lovely first class lounges in places like Hong Kong, Frankfurt, and Doha but it’s not quite the same when I still have to walk through the terminal to pajama clad teenagers dragging dirty…
I’m a couple of days late to the story (or rather in auto-post mode since I’m currently off on my Grand Mediterranean cruise) but this story caught my eye about how a woman trended on Twitter due to her live tweeting a couple’s too-public breakup on a plane. It is stories like this that make…
There is no denying that I’m one of those AvGeeks (aviation geeks). That behavior leads me to do some crazy things – fly on weekend mileage runs to spend 18 hours in Taipei. Or Beijing solely because of a $400 first class fare. Changing my flight and working in the airport so I can meet up with…
How can it be July 4th weekend already? I feel like I was just ringing in the new year. If you follow Jetsetter’s Homestead, then you know this has been a whirlwind year for me – I’m at a new firm after an acquisition which means my travel patterns have been altered a bit as I…
“It’s a miracle… They are healed!” Those are the words I expected to hear uttered on several of my recent flights for you see, we had experienced the phenomenon that gate agents and flight attendants often call a “miracle flight”. I haven’t often seen one myself, despite a couple thousand flights in the duration of my…
Its not easy being geek. I learned that at a very young age when my preschool class at the museum was two girls and twelve boys… it might have been all the time learning the names of various dinosaurs and reptiles that fascinated me so.. I further fleshed it out when most of my elementary school…
I was lucky enough today to grab a seat on one of the American 787 Dreamliner flights on the inaugural day. I used the Same Day Change feature yesterday to grab one of the open seats on the 12:10 pm return ORD-DFW segment. And I’m awfully glad I did. Not only was it a bucket list…
#avgeeks rejoice!!! Today is the launch of the new American 787 Dreamliner service with an inaugural flight this morning from Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago O’Hare. I had a chance to preview this aircraft last week and she’s a true beauty. I’ll be joining the flip side of today’s inaugural service – meeting the arrival in…
If you are traveling in 2015, what you need to do this weekend is take a look at your current airline and hotel program use and make appropriate adjustments to your earning to be sure you are maximizing status opportunities. With eight months left, you still have plenty of time to make travel plans that…
Last night I had the amazing opportunity to attend a customer preview event for the new American 787 Dreamliner. The inaugural flight takes place next Thursday, but this week was a chance to explore the plane while she still has her new plane smell. The preview event was held in a hangar on the east…
To celebrate my last day on BoardingArea as a featured blogger, I’ve got a couple of giveaways today (check back later for more!) First up… two prizes: 1. A pair of Cathay Pacific pajamas and matching first class amenity kit 2. A Cathay Pacific first class amenity kit. To be entered to win the first…