New Alaska Airlines Interior On a recent flight from Las Vegas to Seattle, my flight with Alaska Airlines was on one of the reconfigured A320s. It was my first time with the new interior and overall I was impressed. On my 2.5 hour flight I didn’t notice much of a difference in comfort of the… Read More »
Cathay Pacific A350-900 Business Class HKG-TLV While I have flown Cathay Pacific First Class a number of times, for my flight to Tel Aviv I would be trying out their Business Class on the A350. The A350 aircraft do not have a First Class. The cost was 30,000 Alaska Airlines miles + $57.20 in taxes… Read More »
Cathay Dragon A321 Business Class HAN-HKG Cathay Dragon is Cathay Pacific’s regional airline (formerly Dragonair as you can see in the livery above). The are part of the oneworld alliance, however unlike Cathay Pacific, they are NOT a partner of Alaska Airlines. Which, honestly, makes no sense at all. For my Cathay Pacific First Class… Read More »
China Airlines 777-300 Business Class FRA-TPE Interested in the difference between China Airlines 777 and A350 Business Class? Check out this post. I had to find my way from Europe to Hanoi, Vietnam for a mileage run on Cathay Pacific. I decided I would try a new airline so booked CI Flight 61 from Frankfurt-Taipei… Read More »
SAS 737-800 Plus Class OSL-ARN I needed to get from Oslo to Stockholm. The train takes over 6 hours (and during my travel times, there was track construction) so I decided to book a quick 55 minute flight. There are two main airlines that service the OSL-ARN route: Norwegian and SAS (Scandinavian Airline Systems). Interestingly… Read More »
EuroAtlantic 767-300ER Business Class KEF-AMS After flying Vancouver to Reykjavik on Icelandair, I was booked to continue on to Amsterdam. However, with the grounding of the 737-MAX, I found out I would actually be continuing on a leased EuroAtlantic 767 but operated “in cooperation” with Icelandair. EuroAtlantic is a small Portuguese airline that mainly leases… Read More »