Intro: Visiting the Christkindlemarkets of Mainz Review: Hyatt Regency Mainz Wandering Mainz, including the Christkindlemarkets Review: Lufthansa First Class Terminal and Lounge (yes, both!) Review: Lufthansa First Class 747-8 – Frankfurt to Washington Dulles Conclusion: Visiting the Christkindlemarkets of Mainz I wrote in the early life of this blog, about Maslows Hierarchy of needs with respect to…
Matt has an excellent post, Rethinking Loyalty, that, has been at the tip of my brain for a number of reasons, not the least of which being American Airlines’s AAdvantage devaluation. BackgroundI’ve been an American Airlines’ AAdvantage Executive Platinum for years. I first status matched from United 1K, back when United introduced the Premier Qualifying Dollars (PQD)…
Introduction: Vacation Run to Santiago, Chile Review: American Airlines First Class – DFW to Santiago – 777-200 Review: Grand Hyatt Santiago – Executive Suite with Terrace – the Shakespeare Suite Trying some Chilean Staples Review: American Airlines First Class – Santiago to DFW – 777-200 Conclusion: Vacation Run to Santiago, Chile I’ll keep this one…
Introduction: Vacation Run to Santiago, Chile Review: American Airlines First Class – DFW to Santiago – 777-200 Review: Grand Hyatt Santiago – Executive Suite with Terrace – the Shakespeare Suite Trying some Chilean Staples Review: American Airlines Admiral’s Club, Santiago (SCL) Review: American Airlines First Class – Santiago to DFW – 777-200 Conclusion: Vacation Run…
Introduction: Vacation Run to Santiago, Chile Review: American Airlines First Class – DFW to Santiago – 777-200 Review: Grand Hyatt Santiago – Executive Suite with Terrace – the Shakespeare Suite Enjoying some of the must do’s of Chile Review: American Airlines First Class – Santiago to DFW – 777-200 Conclusion: Vacation Run to Santiago, Chile…
This is a continuation of the “vacation run” – a 50/50 mileage run / vacation my wife and I took to Cairo in January, 2015. Previous posts include: Etihad flight from Washington to Abu Dhabi, and Etihad lounge hopping and Abu Dhabi to Cairo.We arrived in Cairo to a remote gate. I’m not sure that…
This is a continuation of the “vacation run” – a 50/50 mileage run / vacation my wife and I took to Cairo in January, 2015. The first post was: Etihad flight from Washington to Abu DhabiWe were only transiting in Abu Dhabi (AUH), but we had the chance to see Etihad’s beautiful new lounge business lounge (we…
This trip was 50% vacation and 50% mileage run. My wife and I had wanted to make it to Egypt, in fact, we had wanted to visit Egypt on our honeymoon, many moons ago, although that didn’t pan out. No regrets there, the honeymoon was perfect, and in line with family tradition–in Bermuda–I highly recommend…
Last week, I wrote about the particular problem I have with Star Alliance. After having Aegean Airlines Gold Status for the past two years, I’m disappointed to find out that it will probably come to an end in 2015 thanks to higher requalification requirements. And I’m not sure that flying nearly 50,000 miles is worth…
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…