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My girlfriend and I arrived in Doha around midnight local time after our 10+ hour Qatar Airways flight from Cape Town. Since we only planned our entire trip just a week earlier, we ended up with just over a 9 hour layover in Doha. While overnight layovers are usually terrible, Doha’s Hamad International Airport is…
After an incredible week in Cape Town it was sadly time for my girlfriend and I to return home. When we first booked our trip to Cape Town we were scheduled to fly home with Cathay Pacific in Premium Economy However, due to the then spreading global pandemic we decided to change our flights. So,…
After doing a bit of lounge hopping in Toyko Narita’s Terminal 2 it was finally time to board my flight to Hanoi as part of my Hanoi for a day trip. At this point I had only had a few hours of sleep and was in that strange place between inebriated and hungover. If I’m…
During my four hour layover in Tokyo’s Narita airport I decided to do some lounge hopping. I had just arrived in Tokyo after an amazing First Class Flight with Japan Airlines. My lounge hopping began with the old Japan Airlines First Class lounge in the Main Building. Although the old First Class lounge was a…
In late 2018 I booked some absolutely incredible Cathay Pacific First Class fares thanks to a pricing mistake. Because of this mistake, which Cathay Pacific honored, I’d finally have the chance to fly Cathay Pacific First Class and Business class between the US and Asia It was arguably the deal of the decade, but there…
When planning our trip home from Australia and New Zealand we originally booked an economy class American Airlines flight from Auckland to Los Angeles that departed Auckland on Sunday afternoon. About a month before our scheduled departure I called American to check on the status of our Systemwide Upgrades and thankfully reached a fantastic American…
As I began my Cathay Pacific First Class mileage run I had to first find a way to Asia. This meant booking a JAL First Class flight just a few days prior to my scheduled departure. Since I booked the flight just days in advance I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived at…
In the final hours of 2018 Cathay Pacific published what have become known as the fares of a decade. Mistake fares happen, but are becoming ever more rare. Which each mistake there is a mad dash to book them as quickly as possible before the fare dies. The old adage is book now, figure it…
Well, in less than a month now I’ll be heading back to Asia. I’ll get back on a Cathay Pacific plane and fly from New York to Vancouver to Hong Kong to Vietnam. With that however, all of my booked travel will come to an end… in Vietnam. So, in order to get back from…
After spending a few hours in the Sydney Airport it was finally time to board our Qantas flight from Sydney to Auckland to continue or trip down under. Although the flight awkwardly departed in the early evening my girlfriend and I specifically picked it because it was on one of Qantas’ Airbus A330 aircraft. Almost…
