Heading back to the states and home from my Winter 2017 excursion – this flight was taken in May. Started out with some food from the BKK lounge. Something to snack on, although nothing to get too excited about. The…

Heading back to the states and home from my Winter 2017 excursion – this flight was taken in May. Started out with some food from the BKK lounge. Something to snack on, although nothing to get too excited about. The…
A fun surprise for me, I forgot this flight was actually booked in economy as it was the only thing available with my points at the time. No worries, I’ve flown plenty of economy! Off to Bali for the first…
Another in my catch up series of pics from last year I forgot to post up – Bangkok on the way to Bali via Thai Airways. I do think the airport looks cool and it’s neat to see all the…
I mean, better late than never, right? Getting to some flight articles I forgot to post like 8 months ago (oops) this one starts off with some pics from my trip going from Krabi KBV to Bangkok BKK, on my…
When it comes to scoring travel deals, one of the key things is to be flexible. This is the case with award travel as well. Perhaps moreso with premium cabin travel. While most airlines have anytime/full rates – they are…
In this blog post we ask the eternal question posed by philosophers throughout the ages: How, indeed. The quickest, easiest, fastest way to do this right now would be as follows: As per this offer, the CITI / AADVANTAGE PLATINUM…
After flying Turkish Airlines TK6 from Chicago to Istanbul, and spending some time in the Turkish Airlines lounge, I was off to Manila on Turkish Airlines TK84. This was done on a 777-300ER as I’ve been on before for Turkish…
Per my SkyHops map, I’ve flown quite a few times. The pre-2011 stuff was largely done checking in my bags as well, I didn’t convert to a carry on until 2011 and working for IBM. I can only recall losing…
Continuing a decent string of Turkish Airlines Flight Reviews I’ve had lately, here’s a new one, and a first – going from my home airport of Chicago O’Hare ORD directly to IST. Well kind of directly, it was snowing out…
These things are a pain. I earned some from a couple credit cards; I had 112k miles to use. I figured this would be cool for some kind of trip. You can read about various positives about stopovers and open…