Yesterday, I saw The Flight Deal post a good deal on American Airlines to Sao Paulo, Brazil.I have a couple American Airlines Systemwide Upgrades (SWUs) – so I thought I’d do a couple of giveaways. There will be a minimum of two winners. In order to qualify you need to: Have a revenue ticket booked…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review here and The Grand Hyatt Beijing here. This will be part one of the ANA Flight 1101 -Chicago-O’Hare (ORD) to Tokyo-Narita (NRT) review as I flew in ANA Square (First) Class and my wife…
I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t “travel hack” in the truest sense of the word. In reality, I don’t even do what I’m about to talk about, however, I’m going to talk about it for two reasons: Its meaningful for many folks who pay for their tickets but may not be frequent fliers (I’ll get…
So, I flew my last mileage run of the year yesterday. It was like a Dickens novel except mostly good. It would’ve been a tale of three cities but I didn’t get any good photos of Miami done up for the holidays.Starting out at Reagan National (DCA) at O-dark-30 in the morning was met with…
I wrote this shortly after arriving into Hong Kong, because I wanted my thoughts to be clear and present (of course then I let it sit a month). To start, the flight out was a 16.5 hour flight from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Hong Kong (HKG). The captain didn’t mince his words: “We’ll be together for…
I’ve got a problem. I don’t let enough alone. If I’ve got a good itinerary, I try to tweak it, to make it better. If its better, I try to tweak it to make it great. As my colleague says, I try to stretch a single into a double, a double into a triple, and…
This trip was planned in one way, shape and form for more than 9 months. In fact, the miles we used for this trip had been earmarked for a trip to Maldives this past May, but we instead decided to change that to a trip that would be on 2 Emirates A380s. The links:You can…
As we approach the holidays, its a good time to highlight that you can in fact hold packages from UPS and Fedex, as well as a reminder of holding USPS. This is especially important for resellers, considering the significant opportunities that the holidays avail us to. Between shopping portal bonuses, higher shopping portal multipliers, more…
This is a continuation of my round the world trip in August/September 2014. You can read the other sections of this trip report as follows: Flying the Emirates A380 in First, The Grand Hyatt Dubai, The Grand Hyatt Singapore, Flying the Emirates A380 in First for a second time, The JW Khao Lak, Flying SilkAir…
This is a continuation of my round the world trip in August/September 2014. You can read the other sections of this trip report as follows: Flying the Emirates A380 in First, The Grand Hyatt Dubai, The Grand Hyatt Singapore, Flying the Emirates A380 in First for a second time, The JW Khao Lak, and Flying SilkAir…