Happy Valentines Day!

In concordance with the sentimental feelings that Cupid bestows on mankind this time of year, I am pleased to share that I have officially published my outbound trip report to Europe from Summer 2011. Because the outbound journey was on Air France via Paris (and everything French is stereotypically "romantic" and "poetic," I themed it as such. And, of course, to give them a positive review on their in-flight services in spite of such difficult patches they are ...

 Korean Air, Excellent in flight?
Tonight was my first flight in Korean Air’s Business class, what they dub Prestige. The Flight KE 12: Los Angeles (LAX) to Seoul Inchon’s international Airport (ICN). Upon arriving at LAX everything from check in to boarding was extremely pleasant.  KE must have at least 20 agents stationed at LAX to help check passengers in and yet at 10pm, 2 hours before flight time there was not a ...

Last week when searching award fares I broke down and vented to Delta my frustrations! My original email to delta complained about two things. 1) This award calendar suck and don't work! (See my post about my frustrations here) and 2 the Delta.com website sucks for partners awards! And yes I even was ballsy and wrote:

Award travel via delta.com has been horrible since the
nwa.com flights, but it offered partner awards such as china southern,
korean, ...

It's official, I have Jinxed the airline business! Yesterday in my blog When Germans attack, I wrote:


on a final note, this is extremely good news for One World, because One World has been a struggling alliance in recent years. JAL has recently gone through bankruptcy and cut routes, AA is currently in Chapter 11 and is cutting route (and may be taken over according to speculation by either US airways or Delta) and MALEV is struggling to make ...

Any Frequent flyer or FF of Delta knows that delta.com has a reputation of having the worst award space availability in the US and even when traveling worldwide! It's NEVER (ok rarely) good to use your miles on Delta when there's a skyteam partner or other partner with seats available for redemption (partner awards are always redeemed at the lowest award level). Recently I went to buy a ticket LA to Manila. Delta wanted 240k in biz!! YIKES! Called them up, and guess what, ...

We finished our euro-trip in Prague, and while we had a 6AM flight to Frankfurt (followed by an A380 trip to SFO in business class - woot!), we made time to quickly stop in the Czech Airlines Lounge.

I'll spoil the surprise and tell you that this lounge was nothing amazing, but the thing I found most intriguing was the entry sign and the list of accepted carrier logos. Czech Airlines is part of the Sky Team. Thus, seeing all of those carriers was not surprising. Then they had a list ...