Here's the deal for those who want to race over and book right away. Hat tip to Hack My Trip.
$369-410USD one-way (some roundtrips have been reported successfully) from RGN (Yangon, Myanmar) to YVR (Vancouver) in business class!
Here is a screen shot showing you the disparity in pricing to show you how good this deal really is.
That's usually $6500USD worth of airfare that you could slide away with for only $815 (depending on who's ...
Editors note: this is the first of two installments covering the dynamics of ultra-long haul flights that have become more and more commonplace in the global aviation world.
Ultra-long haul flights: they may sound brutal in practice, but it's a pretty cool concept in theory.
Although the figure tends to change frequently, given the current high-risk environment with escalating oil prices, there are roughly 250 flights worldwide that currently exceed 4,999 nautical miles ...
An Emirates Airbus A380 flies over the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. Image courtesy of Google.
"We can reel off a whole load of airlines that are teetering on the brink or are really gone. Roll this forward to Christmas, another eight or nine months, and we're going to see this industry in serious trouble."
-Tim Clark, President of Dubai-based Emirates Airline
It has not been a pretty few months for global airlines. ...
It seems like Tuesdays always seem to be big days for new route announcements and/or existing route cancellations.
Let's start with the good news (aka new routes):
Plus two: WestJet comes to Chicago
Low-cost carrier WestJet, the self-proclaimed "Canada's favorite airline" announced today that it will launch nonstop services from Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in British Columbia, as well as Calgary International Airport (YYC) in Alberta to Chicago O'Hare ...
Yes, I know it has taken me a while to get around to posting this and completing my posts from Vancouver, but life has kept me busy, and I wanted to clear this out before I post some hotel reviews from my most recent trip.
Air Canada provides the best lounges of any North American Airline. Before starting this blog, I spent a lot of time at the Toronto trans-border lounge, and have also had the pleasure of enjoying the domestic lounge in Montreal. Along with this one, there are ...
To culminate my long, wonderful journey to China, I flew home on Air Canada PEK-YVR-SFO. This was part of an open-jaw itinerary that included my outbound flight to Hong Kong. While the outbound upgrade was confirmable at booking time, I definitely had to sweat it out for the return home. Part of the reason for this is that the YVR-HKG flight uses the larger 777, while the PEK-YVR flight uses the 767, which has significantly less Executive Class suites. My ...
