2022 Year in Miles 2022 was the year of “revenge travel” after 2+ years of Covid shutdowns. Warnings of a system not ready for the pre-pandemic levels of travel came to fruition for some. My international summer travel ended up reasonably successful and without too much chaos. I was able … Read more
Capital One Travel Issue with Booking Flight One of my every day cards is the Capital One Venture X card. For the $395 annual fee you get Priority Pass membership plus a $300 annual travel credit and a 10,000 point anniversary bonus each year (worth $100). It is my one … Read more
Summer 2022: My Flight Experiences There has been a lot of talk about traveling this summer. Mostly catastrophizing just how bad it would be. It was predicted to be the perfect storm of post-pandemic revenge travel and understaffing of airlines due to reductions during COVID and record low unemployment rates. The … Read more
Finnair A350-900 New Business Class HEL-DFW Finnair introduced a brand new Business Class product in February, 2022, just as travel was making a comeback post Covid. Their previous Business Class was already good as I experienced on my positioning flight from Amsterdam to Helsinki. Currently Finnair only has a few … Read more
Finnair A350-900 Business Class AMS-HEL I needed a way back from Europe after my summer trip and had been wanting to try out Finnair’s new Business Class product. I was able to find an award flight with the new product HEL-DFW. For the same price, I was able to add … Read more
Condor 757-300 Business Class EVN-FRA In looking for options to get to Western/Central Europe from the Caucasus, I found that Condor has a flight from Yerevan, Armenia (EVN) to Frankfurt. When I checked the prices; I was able to book Flight 847, a one way ticket in Business Class, for … Read more