I decided to attend the Living With Lions program in South Africa. It looks super fun. Look at those adorable kittens! How to go? I looked at United and American but really wanted to use up some of my American…
My First Attempt At British Airways Avios Redemption
British Airways has a distance based award chart with their Avios as noted above. Quite a deal for some of these routes. Per the Great Circle Mapper, ORD to DCA is 612 miles; a round trip economy ticket could be…
US Airlines Most Profitable and Least Comfortable
So sayeth World Airline Awards. Ranking and comments from this article at Quartz. Certainly it seems like things are quite different these days than when I was flying even 5 years ago; it seemed like there were many more open…
What’s a Mileage Run? Obtaining American Airlines Executive Platinum
What’s a mileage run? It’s something crazy people do, really. The first time I read about them was on flyertalk – where there are some examples of some truly crazy runs. There are many threads like this. The purpose of…
Flight Review: TK17 Turkish Airlines B777-300ER Business Class Istanbul to Toronto
This minty lemonade… pretty tasty stuff. So this started off rough – I went to the Taksim Havatas bus location and totally got on the wrong bus to start. Part of this was being advised to go and I suppose…
Turkish Airlines Lounge at Istanbul Ataturk
So the Turkish Airlines lounge is all sorts of amazing. It’s huge and has all sorts of stuff including food, food, food. Without a lounge, I usually eat little if anything at airports. Maybe some Starbucks. Maybe some little snackies…
Go Anywhere In The World For $300
Although the American Airlines 100k points Citibank AAdvantage Executive offer has officially ended, there are still links out there for it – and they still work. This can be confirmed when calling to activate the card upon receipt. One such…
Flight Review: TK1796 Turkish Airlines A321-200 Business Class Stockholm to Istanbul
Started off taking the bus to the metro station, where I took a train to the airport. Not the fast one but one of the slow ones (commuter trains) with a few stops. Good excuse to drain the rest of…
50,000 Point Southwest Airlines Cards and Fast Track to Companion Pass Return!
The big 50k offers have returned for Southwest – Premier and Plus versions of both personal and business cards. These are able to get one the vast brunt of the way to achieving the super valuable Southwest Companion Pass –…
Flight Review: SK946 SAS A330-300 Business Class Chicago to Stockholm
I’ll make this brief as I usually don’t find these too fascinating. My taxi (mommy) dropped me off at Terminal 5 at O’Hare, for international airlines. I’m flying on a United Star Alliance ticket split between SAS Scandinavian Airlines and…
