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The Friday before we left for Singapore, I flew from Kansas City, through Chicago, to San Francisco. My original plan was to fly a quick mileage run from SFO>Newark on Friday night, return Saturday, and then fly down to LAX to then spend the night before the flights to Singapore at the LAX Hilton. I had applied a regional upgrade to the SFO>EWR ...

 

 

This post will serve to conclude my series of posts from my Cathay Pacific First Class award redemption to Bali.  In all it was an excellent experience.  Although 95% of my flying patterns is on Star Alliance carriers, I really look forward to the opportunity to get back into Cathay Pacific First Class.   I couldn't recommend it highly enough.

I'm fortunate to have booked this for 150,000 British Airways miles before their conversion to ...

First off let me tempt you with some "food pr0n" :

The holy grail of airplane cuisine

As frequent upgrd.com readers know, the search for a tasty, properly cooked steak on a plane is an ongoing mission of Mike.   Many of us here have joined in his Quixote-like search: (Elyse, Sara, Josh, Matthew, Sluggo, me).  As you can see above, I'm pleased to report that Cathay Pacific can do a steak medium ...

This post discusses the lounges we visited at Hong Kong International Airport on our outbound trip to Bali.

Hong Kong International Airport

Following our extra long First Class flight from O'Hare to Hong Kong, we opted to head to The Arrival lounge to get cleaned up.  The fact that the MTR was not yet running also influenced this decision. That and 24 hours on the plane.

The Arrival

The ...

Thanks to my extra long flight(s) between Chicago and Hong Kong in Cathay Pacific First Class, I have split out this separate post featuring the meal service I experienced onboard.

About to enjoy the first course.

The dining experience onboard was the best I have experienced in the air.  It certainly helped that my wife and I were the only 2 passengers in the first class cabin.  The flight attendants ...

After confirming that we were the only passengers for the long flight to Hong Kong, just before leaving the Swiss First Class lounge, the agents insisted on giving us new boarding passes, since apparently one of the seats we were originally assigned to was inoperable. 

One of the Cathay Pacific agents escorted us to the nearby boarding gate.  My wife boarded first, then the flight attendants welcomed me by name, and brought me to my seat.   My wife was ...