Florida in First Class: BA A380 and AA Flagship First Dining When BA started bringing their A380 fleet back into post-pandemic service at the end of 2021, primarily for service on US routes, a flood of Avios availability was to be expected. In February 2022 I managed to snag two seats to Miami in C...
Jump to postThanks for all of the comments - it makes writing these longer reports all the more worthwhile!
Jump to postDXB-ZRH Somewhat disconcertingly, the Swiss app had been showing my flight as ‘boarding complete’ for the entirety of the day before the actual departure. This was unnerving enough for me to triple check I’d got my dates and times right – always slightly challenging with a very early morning depart...
Jump to postElegance to the Emirate: The Outstanding Swiss First Class Experience On a sunny early May day last year I arrived at Heathrow Terminal 2 with a sense of excitement building; the next day, I would be trying a product long since on my bucket list. With fair regularity, the Lufthansa Group, of which ...
Jump to postThe New AA / BA Premium Experience at JFK Terminal 8 Earlier this December, BA moved out of Terminal 7 at JFK, which had been their home since the BOAC era of the 1970s. Co-locating with AA in Terminal 8, the move heralded a new premium check-in area and two brand new lounges, alongside reconfigura...
Jump to postThanks for a great review. Thanks QF93 ! Your trip report was of greater quality than the BA Club offering, how do they get away with it? Refuse to fly Club while this all in one meal service operates. The BA First service does show signs of aging, remember when it was so good. When flying to Asia ...
Jump to postLooks great! I like how BA has 'Traditional Italian Tiramisu' on the menu, yet call it a signature British dish. :scratchchin: Haha, yes they've since spotted that and removed the silly British flags from the menus. Thanks for writing up - hoping to check out the Jewel myself next week! BA first - ...
Jump to postSingapore via First and Club on the World’s Favourite Airline British Airways. Two words that when spoken together either evoke a rose-tinted notion of nostalgia and homeliness, or send chills up the spine and elicit a faint whimper of exasperation from being on the receiving end of one too many IT...
Jump to postGorgeous pictures! Looked like a wonderful trip, I enjoyed reading it and looking at your pics! Thanks Jeremy! i think one of the nicest in Spain. Thanks for your comments jrfspa320 - I agree! Reading this trip report reminded me of many others of yours - and I must say that not only did I enjoy re...
Jump to postA Valencian Vista: The Ghost of British Midland International Back at the beginning of October, I took my first international trip since the start of the pandemic. With no testing or quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated visitors at the time of travelling, Spain was the chosen destination. M...
Jump to postGreat report with lots of details and pictures. Hope you enjoyed being back in the skies. I agree with your thoughts on the BA lounge at LHR, the First Wing is the best part, the galleries lounge is nothing special but does the job. The bathrooms are really awful - Ive seen public bathrooms nicer t...
Jump to postA Glimpse of Glasgow: Grounded No Longer It had been 608 days, but in early September I finally took to the skies once again. A couple of domestic Club Europe sectors and a stay in a Crowne Plaza might not sound like a particularly trip report-worthy subject, but given I haven’t been able to write ...
Jump to postThanks for the latest comments! I always like your reports and how you pay attention to detail. Actually, your writing style is so consistent and specific one could give it to pupils at school to write an essay about the author. If there was a thread “Reveal Who You Are” I would be most curious to f...
Jump to postGreat Trip Report. I particularly liked the detailed hotel review in TLV. As for the rest of it, thanks for reminding me yet again why I refuse to fly IB. Especially on the Premium services. I don´t know how much money you paid, but if it weren´t for the the seat, it looked like a Y class of servic...
Jump to postGood photos. The French Riviera does indeed look like a nice place. I've been to Paris a few times and although it doesn't seem to be as heralded as the Mediterranean areas in Spain and Italy, I'd like to visit Nice in the future. Thanks mke717spotter ! The French Riveria has a certain charm to it ...
Jump to postNice report, thank you for sharing this! I am always intrigued by the different services offered on rails around the world: this wasn't any different to what one would expect onboard a plane anyway. I remember all the food I've tried onboard Indian trains, straight from a hot buffet car - but these...
Jump to postThe End of the A340-600: Iberia Business to the Holy Land New Year’s Day 2020 – as I made the customary drive around the M25 to Heathrow, little did I know what this year in particular would have in store for us all just a couple of short months later. As it was, the first of January itself was a n...
Jump to postIn the Footsteps of Film Stars: The InterContinental Carlton Cannes and the French Riviera October in Cannes – the crowds have gone, the weather is still mild (albeit variable) and hotel prices have started to fall, representing an ideal time to visit – provided sunbathing isn’t high on your list. ...
Jump to postairzona11 wrote:What a great report. Need to try this!
Nice TR, great pictures... btw. how many A320/A321 are equipped with IFE? Is the safety briefing done via the screens or manually? Thanks debonair , I'm glad you enjoyed the report! All of BA's shorthaul Airbus fleet (except the ex-bmi aircraft and second hand LGW aircraft) used to be equipped with...
Jump to postA Postcard from Portugal via The Qantas London Lounge Towards the end of September, a long weekend break to Portugal gave me the opportunity to sample both The Qantas London Lounge at Heathrow and the InterContinental Lisbon, both of which had been on my to-visit list for some time. With detailed r...
Jump to postThanks for all of the comments so far! I will miss the sound and smell of the 125s however! Food looks great, slightly pricey however! I agree, the InterCity 125 fleet was a classic and one which I grew up with. I always found the noise from the engine at the rear of the train to be rather frighteni...
Jump to postGreat report, Genius12! [...] Just so everyone is clear — there is no requirement that trip reports are limited to aviation reports. We have had several train trip reports in the past, although obviously not as common. There's still plenty of interest among readers, even for non aviation reports. T...
Jump to postBritain’s Last Restaurant Car: GWR First Class Pullman Dining An invention of the Great Northern Railway Company, the first dedicated restaurant car in Britain started operations in 1879. Almost 150 years later, Great Western Railway (GWR) is the only remaining operator of restaurant cars in the UK...
Jump to postFantastic report all round! [...] What did you use to take your pictures? The clarity of the images is unbelievable, not to mention decent composition and what not. Really beautiful to look at, a total feast for the eyes. Quite looking forward to trying the Club Suite once we can fly again. Thanks ...
Jump to postA great insight into colonial Vietnam and French influence as has been mostly forgotten by the outside world. Also, every review of yours only serves to highlight how QR is only getting better and better at everything it does; no wonder you do not choose anything else for your trips between Scandin...
Jump to postThe British Airways A350 Club Suite Experience The summer of 2019 might now feel like a distant (and rather fond) memory, but it was July of last year that British Airways took delivery of the first of 18 of their long-awaited new flagship aircraft; the Airbus A350-1000. Introduced primarily to rep...
Jump to postScotron12 wrote:Absolutely wonderful pictures...thank you. Salivated from start to finish. Hotel in Hanoi looks teriffic...
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Just to clarify, we stayed at the Radisson Blu Stockholm-Arlanda Airport Hotel at ARN (between the terminals), not the Arlandia (which is close to the airport). I'm unable to edit the report now to correct this.
HAN-HKG The Cathay Dragon check-in area at Noi Bai International Airport is jointly branded with Cathay Pacific, despite CX not serving the airport directly. Two desks were open for Business passengers and oneworld status members that afternoon, and before long our bags were checked in and tagged w...
Jump to postHanoi and Hong Kong via QR and KA J featuring a Presidential Suite and CX First Class lounges I had always been curious about Vietnam given its prominent place in military history of recent times. In choosing where in the country to visit for a relatively short first-time trip, the capital of Hanoi...
Jump to postExcellent pictures too - what are you taking them on? Thanks for your comments ClassicLover ! I agree with you on CX's latest concept lounges in HKG (and those replicated around the world). I'll have reviews of The Wing and The Pier First Class lounges in my next trip report. I use a Canon PowerSho...
Jump to postSingapore via Qsuite and the World’s Most Audacious First Class Lounge A little over a year since my last trip to Singapore in February 2018, I was back to visit a few new locations in the garden city, to stay at one of my favourite InterContinental properties, and to experience the world’s best bu...
Jump to postGreat report. I know how much effort goes into writing them! Good to see the hotel reviews too. I agree with your views on BA and they are thankfully on their way up. The lounges (and business hard product) and the major let downs. Hopefully the LHR lounges will be refurbished soon...those bathroom...
Jump to postIn the Shadow of Concorde: The British Airways Premium Experience Revisited A little over 10 years ago, I wrote my second-ever trip report about my first-ever British Airways experience. The report covered a First flight from a then 4-month old Terminal 5 at LHR to JFK, followed by Club World from ...
Jump to postInterContinental Osaka As regular readers will know, InterContinental is more often than not my go-to hotel chain; their properties strike just the right balance between luxury and practicality. For our visit to Kyoto I had chosen to stay at the nearest InterContinental in Osaka, which although sti...
Jump to postEven to this point, this is an epic report! Well done, one of the best reports I've seen on here in ages :) Thanks so much for your comments ClassicLover and your detailed observations! I have to agree with ClassicLover, one of the best presented reports on here in a LONG while, makes me want to pc...
Jump to postA Five Star Journey Through Japan: Qatar Airways and Japan Airlines First Class Japan is a country that has long held my interest, and so it was with anticipation that this trip edged closer in the calendar. Taking advantage of some excellent ex-Italy fares with Qatar Airways, this trip began the d...
Jump to postViews of Venice with British Airways This report is a little unusual in that it covers a brief overnight visit to a destination that was to be a starting point for a much longer trip to Japan with Qatar Airways and Japan Airlines. Japan will be the subject of an upcoming trip report, but for now he...
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Jump to postThe World’s Best Business Class Experience to the City in a Garden Ahead in this report: British Airways Club Europe on the 767 and A319 Qatar Airways Business Class on the 787 and A350 InterContinental Singapore and impressions from the Garden City A smorgasbord of lounges including QR, BA, QF and...
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Some interesting insight there, OA260.
Ancient Athens via Ancient 767s - BA Club Europe and the InterContinental (w/pics) Welcome to my final trip report for 2017 (published just a little behind schedule) telling the tale of an early October trip to the capital of Greece. I'll cover the British Airways Club Europe experience on two sect...
Jump to postbeeweel15 wrote:Great report. Amazing pictures of Switzerland.
Nice report. I was very interested to read about AA's premium product across a range of different aircraft and routes. Not often we get to compare International, Transcontinental and North American in one post. The conclusion I drew is that the premium service is, overall, unpolished. On paper, eve...
Jump to postScenic Switzerland – Lausanne, Montreux and Geneva via BA Club Europe LHR-GVA It was a typically British (ie. slightly overcast) mid-July day as we entered a busy Terminal 5 at Heathrow and headed to BA’s First Wing ahead of our flight to Geneva. There was a short wait for a desk to become free to ...
Jump to postThanks for taking the time to read and comment kann123air!
Jump to postYVR-LAX We took the SkyTrain back to the airport where there was no queue to get boarding passes at the empty Priority desk. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36205682262_b6c2a76443_c.jpg YVR have a slightly weird arrangement in the Transborder terminal whereby passengers have to take their own b...
Jump to postThanks for all of the comments! when you come back to our city, stay at the Fairmont PACIFIC RIM We did consider this property, but wanted to check out the Waterfront as we'd stayed there previously and when we were travelling the restaurant wasn't open at the Pacific Rim. It will be on the list for...
Jump to postThe FlAAgship Experience: Vancouver, Los Angeles and New York inc. CX/QF First lounges American Airlines; the airline that everyone loves to loathe. Up until now I had successfully avoided AA outside the US, but with a trip planned with stops in Vancouver, Los Angeles and New York, it seemed the ti...
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