A Last Star Alliance Fling? To Chicago with United Airlines and Air Canada LHR-IAD-ORD, ORD-YYZ-LHR The Introduction - and An Apology Index: An Apology and The Introduction (this entry) To London Heathrow, BMI Lounge, Star Alliance Lounge United UA923 London Heathrow – Washington Dulles International TSA Shenanigans, United UA221 Washington … [Read more...]
TRIP REPORT: A Last Star Fling? With United and Air Canada – The Introduction
A Last Star Alliance Fling? To Chicago with United Airlines and Air Canada (and a guest appearance from BMI) LHR-IAD-ORD, ORD-YYZ-LHR Index: The Introduction (this entry) Welcome to what might be a last big fling with Star Alliance for a bit - unless I decide to make a push for Senator Status... or some other madness overtakes me.... which for … [Read more...]
ORDXII – Pictures and Videos up
If you've been paying attention to the GhettoIFE Twitter feed(@GhettoIFE), this is old news. For everyone else - good news! The pictures and videos from ORDXII are now up. For something different, I've split them by segment. Well it was a good idea at the time... London to Washington Dulles with United in a Boeing 767-300ER Set 1 - … [Read more...]
ORDXII – closing in on the end of a trip
Well the trip is coming to an end. Thankfully, I made the early coach - with an emergency bag consolidation exercise. Homeward bound. More later with the ultra quick trip report... And the full monster to come... … [Read more...]
Canada. It is a real country amazingly…
... and for once... no immigration issues! There is a celestial being above. Meanwhile, I seem to be tiddly on Vodka and Coke. So this isn't probably making any sense.... to anyone. Greetings from Pearson International Airport! Next stop: London... England.... … [Read more...]
On the Road again… Next Stop: Toronto..
Good afternoon from the United B8 "In the upper echelons of ORDT1" Club Another trip is beginning to close down, and I've some good writing material this trip. Although I do have a tiny bit of venom of ICHG and the InterContinental Chicago MagMile. More on that much later ;) For now - it's lounge time, and that can only mean one thing... It's Vodka and Coke … [Read more...]
ORD XII – Another lounge
One lounge has semi decent food. The other does not. One has a good view. The other looks like it is in a black pit of hell. Meanwhile - breakfast is served! More hopefully when I've made my first stop... … [Read more...]
Of all the options in the world, I choose this one. And yet there are more choices…
One day I will get someone to look in my mind and scream at me "WHY???" very loudly when I plan my trips. Once again, I need to head to the Windy City. And of course, LHR-ORD is just boring ;). So I attempt as usual to spice it up a tiny bit. Part of my problem is BMI and where to dump my miles next. And it's a bigger problem as my next trip is when IAG has planned to … [Read more...]