behind the curtain
American Airlines Business class awards from the United States to Europe start at 100,000 miles. If you're based on the east coast you can save 20,000 miles by booking a OneWorld Explorer award. Many others have detailed using Explorer awards for elaborate round-the-world travel, but I simply needed to get from New York to the ITB Berlin travel show.
The American Airlines One World Explorer Award chart (at the time of this writing) lists business class award ...
The space shuttle isn't as big as you think.
But you shouldn't believe me. Plan you next flight with a long layover at IAD and see for yourself. As Brad mentioned in his visit to the Udvar Hazy Museum it's just a few minutes from Dulles.
Although admission is free, the mandatory parking is $15 per car.
Once inside, it's a large facility filled with a range of aircraft. Some notable aircraft include:
Boeing Dash 80 prototype Space Shuttle ...
Turkish Airlines flies their 777 nonstop from Istanbul to New York. I'll probably win the award for slowest trip report written, but this is the conclusion to my earlier report from 13 months ago. I've typed up a few of my notes, but I'll mostly let the pictures speak for themselves.
After my free tour of Istanbul I returned to the Istanbul airport. Security was quick and I made my way back to the Turkish Airlines Business Class lounge. With a few hours before my flight I decided to ...
Update: 9:07 central: The American Airlines server is unresponsive showing parts of the video or error messages. but they just updated their twitter profile pic. I have no words right now.
Update 9:14 central, server sort of responding. Still no words. Facebook comments generally ask "Are you merging with Air France?" Matthew has identified an even closer match.
Be sure to tune in at 9am Central today as American Airlines unveils ...
Hi, my name is Mike and I love flying on the MD80. There I said it.
Many other frequent flyers lament the MD80s lack of in-flight entertainment (IFE), smaller overhead bins, boring non sky-interior, and general age of the aircraft. But I enjoy the fact that 80% of the seats are windows or aisles, there are sixteen seats in first increasing the likelihood of an upgrade (unlike an A319 on United), flying up in first class is nearly silent and on the rare occasion when my upgrade doesn't ...
I've never been that excited about hotel status or hotel upgrades. It's just a room, and a suite is just a bigger room - sometimes an apartment. Generally when my travel includes a hotel stay I'm usually working at a client site, visiting friends, or seeing the city. However, sometimes it's nice to have the points available to redeem at some of the great properties around the world including the Park Hyatt Tokyo, Hyatt Regency London and Grand Hyatt Santiago. And for that, having top status ...
