Roughly once a year, I visit the St. Louis, Missouri area. Lacking any real airport competition, I haven’t found prices to be particularly competitive. On the plus side, that also means I get to be creative with checking off new airlines and airports. Enter, Southern Airways Express. Southern Airways Express is one of the larger […]
New York LaGuardia Chase Sapphire Lounge by the Club (LGA)
Just a few years ago, I never would have uttered the phrase “I deliberately chose to fly out of LaGuardia (LGA).” Yet, owing in part to the newish Chase Sapphire Lounge by the Club LGA, you could say that I flipped that quote on its head. Having only opened on 16 January of this year, […]
Air Canada Testing Out a Seasonal Osaka Flight to Toronto
Because Kyoto and Nara lack an airport, the next best thing is a seasonal Osaka flight. But Osaka has its fans, too. That’s right, in late spring, Air Canada will be starting seasonal flights from Toronto YYZ to Osaka KIX. On second thought, make that restarting, since Air Canada last flew this route from 1997-2000. The […]
Airline Status Match Reality
ASMR for me has nothing to do with the sound of someone crunching a mid-flight Air France crouton. No, it’s all about the airline status match reality I’m currently facing. Prepare your small violins for this one. In my last post, I mentioned about how Emirates was quite open to the idea of a status […]
The Emirates Status Match
Really, there’s a Skywards Emirates status match challenge available? If access is granted to its business class lounges in Dubai (DXB), it might be worth it. But how did this discovery come about, and more importantly, what’s a status match? A few years ago, to invite frequent fliers to sign-up for its brand-new Volare program, […]
The Airline Safety Card
Note: With two notable exceptions below, I always ask one of the flight crew if I can take an airline safety card. Would you really want to take an airline safety card as a souvenir? They’re typically cooped up in one of those seat-back pockets, one of the nastiest places on the plane. Not to […]
Chinatown Around the World
As a child, I used to think that the Manhattan Chinatown was one of the coolest neighborhoods to wander around. Whether it was the detailed writing system, the food, or the history, I was enthralled. But how would it compare with other Chinatowns around the world? After starting to travel, I realized that New York […]
Metro Access to Istanbul International Airport
If you, too, are as interested as I am in mass transit, then I’ve got some good news– there’s now metro access to Istanbul International Airport (IST). On 29 January the M11 metro line, connecting IST to Gayrettepe transfer station near downtown Istanbul, started operations. For your reference, I’ve added a snippet of the official […]
