My friend and I recently booked roundtrip First Class tickets from Seattle to Honolulu through Alaska Airlines for $599. The flight over was on a Hawaiian Airlines A330 aircraft while the return flight was on a standard Alaska Airlines 737 MAX. Recently Alaska purchased Hawaiian but the two are still … Read more
This summer, between July 21 and August 8, I used my Frontier GoWild! Annual Pass to take ten flights at a total cost of $157.18 in taxes/fees, after an initial $299 pass purchase, to criss cross the country. With only one exception, I was always either able to get an … Read more
Last December I purchased an annual Frontier GoWild! Pass for $299. It started on May 1 and finally in July I’ve started to be able to use it. I work in education so I have my summers mostly free. You can definitely find some value with the pass. I was … Read more
JetBlue has probably my favorite domestic product in their Mint Class. I also have found JetBlue to be a customer centric company, as they were extremely helpful during a past weather related disruption. I have flown it several times in the past, but not since COVID. I decided to try … Read more
This year my top posts were a good mix of hotels, cruises, flights, lounges and a Vegas rumor thrown in for good measure. Below are the top 10 most viewed posts written in 2023. 10. Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor Review – The Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor is an older property … Read more
This year SingleFlyer.com turned 10 years old. My number of annual miles has gone down since the pandemic, but I’m still exploring the world which is what I set out to do a decade ago. I’ve continued my experimenting with cruising (four voyages in 2024). Entering this year with no … Read more
British Airways has updated their Business Class (also known as Club World) product. I have flown their old product a number of times and always found it to be underwhelming. Fortunately they have a new product that is on par with other Business Class seats on other airlines. A friend … Read more
This year I branched off into a new form of travel: cruises. After promising never to go on a cruise after COVID-19, I found myself trying out Virgin Voyages and fell in love. I took four total cruises this year and already have more planned for 2024. This meant less … Read more
After my Virgin Voyage, I needed to get back to Seattle. I was able to us Alaska Airlines miles to book a one way ticket from Nice, France to Dublin and then Dublin on to Seattle. The Nice to Dublin flight was in Economy (no Business Class offered) and the … Read more
Condor A330neo Business Class SEA-FRA Condor has a new Business Class that I’ve been looking forward to experiencing. For a relatively small, leisure airline, I was impressed with the product. It shouldn’t be compared to Qatar or Cathay Pacific, but it absolutely holds its own against British, American, or most … Read more
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