British Airways had two flights a day out of Philadelphia direct to London Heathrow, in April of 2017, sadly this changed to just one flight a day. The early flight has a four class cabin structure (First, Club World Business on two levels, World Traveller Plus and World Traveller Coach). […]
My Star Alliance award ticket to Australia was concocted in my insane attempt to try as many different airlines as I could along the way. Having heard great reviews of Singapore Airlines over the years – larger seat, great crew, nice lounges – I was convinced that I had to […]
My sister began reciting all the rules over dinner, thankfully, I had a large glass of wine as my niece started to sound like a gremlin and not the adorable kid who went to see Frozen with me a few weeks ago, I didn’t know there would be rules for […]
Today, March 31st is the last day of USAirways as an airline. Tomorrow, on April 1st (not lost is that it is April Fools’ Day), the new American will emerge from the merger of the two airlines and my loyalty program shifts from the Star Alliance to One World. I’m […]
The perk of flying on a business class international ticket is the lounge access. Over the years, traveling solo, the lounge has been a good place to have a quiet seat, charge my phone and not worry about my bags when I want to use the bathroom (one downside of […]
Everyone dreams of luxury but what is luxe to one person may not be to another. For me, I try to use loyalty points/miles to stay in luxury hotels, fly long haul business class and use the savings to upgrade my experiences along the way with private guides, helicopter […]
When i redeemed my British Airways’ Avios points for an Aer Lingus business class ticket to Dublin from Boston, I was excited for my first flight with the Irish airline. I did need to reposition myself from Philly for the flight and luckily found a cheaper USAirways ticket (now AA) […]
Chances are you dream of using your airline or credit card miles to travel to Europe. Chances are also good that you’ve more than once played with the airline redemption calculator to see what it would cost you to realize that dream trip. And sadly, chances are that after […]
I successfully booked an award air ticket last week to Australia but it was literally exhausting (just thinking about it is making me tired). I spent at least ten hours (or more) trying to figure out the various parts of the puzzle to put together the journey. If you are […]
I’ve visited Toronto many times over the years to attend the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and pretty much only saw the inside of my hotel, the multiple movie theaters and the closest takeaway in order to get back in line. I was excited to visit for the Travel […]