Economy Class & Beyond

Growing Old in Style – Off to Heathrow with National Express

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Growing Old in Style - Off to Heathrow with National Express Index: 40.. wait? You're 40??? Off to Heathrow with National Express Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 and British Airways Galleries First BA936 London Heathrow to Düsseldorf in Club Europe Düsseldorf airport and the most boring lounge... in the world (Lufthansa Business Lounge) CX376 Düsseldorf Airport … [Read more...]

SNAPSHOT: Holiday Inn Express, Sheung Wan

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Time for another Snapshot - this time looking at the Holiday Inn Express, Sheung Wan Location The Holiday Inn Express is located near Sheung Wan MTR station, and about a 10 minute walk away from it. There are multiple ways to get to it. Alternatively, you can use the MTR shuttle from Hong Kong Station to deliver you there.  Be warned, it's the first stop on this run … [Read more...]

SNAPSHOT: Cathay Pacific CX0376 Düsseldorf to Hong Kong in Business Classs

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Lets continue the snapshots as I take a look at Cathay Pacific between Dusseldorf and Hong Kong aboard CX0376. The route The route is a new one for Cathay Pacific, which started operations on 1st September 2015, operating four times a week between Hong Kong and Düsseldorf. The plane It's a Boeing 777-300ER. The plane operates in a four class configuration (First, … [Read more...]

1:10am – and I still don’t learn my lessons

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I may be 40, but one lesson I haven't learned is to travel to stay in a hotel before long haul flying. Today is one of those times I did as I am queuing to board bus number 210 to London Heathrow Terminal 5. Today. It's the veritable sea of humanity that is queuing up to go to the London airports (and from the looks of things -mainly Gatwick). Me? I'm off to … [Read more...]

SNAPSHOT: Short Haul AA Segments in Coach and First

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Time for some more snapshots as I look at some US domestic segments. Firstly, we'll cover Chicago to Washington Regan in Coach. I documented some of the fun of this in Delayed due to fish, but here's some experience pictures. The plane(s) The plane which had to be pulled to delay due to fish was an AA 737-800... with a clown nose (old AA bodywork, new style … [Read more...]

SNAPSHOT: AA55 Manchester to Chicago O’Hare

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It's time for another snapshot of my travels, this time aboard American Airlines 55 between Manchester and Chicago O'Hare. What's the difference between a snapshot and a trip report? A snapshot is a very quick overview of a flight, a hotel stay, where a trip report segment is the full on blow-by-blow commentary. Today, it's a snapshot! Check in It seems AA enjoys … [Read more...]

Delayed due to fish… 

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Like all of us, we've all encountered delays in our time. Today's fun delay at O'Hare is down to improperly packed fish. That's right fish. The plane that was meant to take me to DCA  It seems in flight, the container holding the fish leaked into the hold. Alas, the matinence crew have been aboard and determined the fish were in salt water. And salt … [Read more...]