Emirates and Jetmen Dubai put on quite a show in the skies over Dubai. I’m guessing not a lot of people would’ve noticed the two “Jetmen” from the ground, but from the air, it looks truly incredible! Have a look:Truth be told, I never knew such jet packs were being used in such a viable…
Source: EmiratesEmirates is now flying 2 A380’s in United for Wildlife liveries. United for Wildlife focuses on stopping illegal wildlife trade. In the airlines press statement, they state that the goal of flying these liveries is: The beautiful livery, featuring some of the planet’s wildlife threatened by poaching and the illegal wildlife trade, aims to…
I don’t really know a lot about the Melbourne Cup, in fact, I didn’t even know such a thing existed before I left Brisbane a few short days ago.But my wife and I learned a bit. The best we could come up with, was that this was similar to the big three races of the Triple…
For as long as I can remember, Singapore Airlines had the two longest flights, that being, from Newark, NJ (EWR) to Singapore (SIN), and Los Angeles, CA (LAX) to Singapore.Then after Singapore deemed the A340-500’s that they flew in an all business class configuration to be a money loser, and cancelled the route, Qantas took…
Right now, Alaska Airlines is selling miles for as low as 1.97 cents per mile (Link via Travel Codex). I usually don’t think about buying miles or points, unless its just to top up for an award, but, I really like Emirates–I know, shocking for regular Tagging Miles readers.So here I am, thinking to myself, that…
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According to Australian Business Traveller Emirates is deploying its first two cabin A380 to Copenhagen. The 2 cabin A380 will have a whopping 615 seats, with 58 lay flat business class seats. While no seatmap is known at publishing, rumor has it that business class will still be on the upper deck. Since there will be…
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…
This is a continuation of my round the world trip in August/September 2014. The other components in this non-traditional trip include Flying Emirates A380 in First, Saturday Special: Grand Hyatt, Dubai, Saturday Special: Grand Hyatt Singapore. Before the flightAround midnight we decided it was time to leave the Grand Hyatt Dubai, to head to the…
Yesterday I posted offering some ways to earn Alaska Miles, and I have to hand it to our readers – we got amazing feedback. So I thought I’d do a bit of a recap, and flesh out some of the suggestions offered with some additional research.Churning CardsThis is the simplest approach, which was offered by…