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Air France-KLM Lounge Bangkok Dining Area

Review: Air France-KLM Lounge at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport

In 2017, shortly after my first visit to the lounge, the Air France-KLM Lounge at Bangkok Suvarnahumi airport went through renovation. The lounge was reopened by the end of the same year, but it wasn’t until earlier this month that I finally got to revisit it. While the changes in the lounge were nothing drastic […]

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Turkish Airlines Lounge Bangkok Dining Area

Review: Turkish Airlines Lounge at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport

Turkish Airlines is well-known for its flagship lounge in Istanbul. However, it also operates smaller outstation lounges at some of its destinations. In early 2019, it opened one of those – its fourth one after Moscow, Washington D.C., and Nairobi – at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport. Last week, I had a chance to pay the lounge

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Cathay Pacific First Class Bed

Trip Preview: Cathay Pacific First Class, VietJet, and Everything in Between

On January 1 of this year, I was very lucky to have grabbed one of Cathay Pacific’s insane $850 first class error fare tickets from Vietnam to the US. And, after months of waiting, I finally took the trip earlier this month. Now that I’m back, it’s time to process all the photos and notes

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British Airways Concorde

How Many Concordes Were Made and What Routes Did They Fly?

Being the only successful supersonic passenger airliner, Concorde is one of the most widely recognized aircraft types. That’s in spite of the fact that only twenty Concordes were produced in total and that not all of those were delivered to the type’s two customers. And the fact that they could only be flown on a

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787 Projection Mapping

Flight of Dreams: The Home of ZA001, the First Boeing 787 Test Plane

Significant amount of Boeing 787 components are being made in and around Aichi Prefecture in Japan. Because of that, in 2015, Boeing donated the first Boeing 787 test plane (ZA001) to the city of Nagoya. After sitting on the apron of Centrair airport for a couple of years, it found its new home in Flight

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A Guide to Connecting Flights

A Guide to Taking Connecting Flights: Procedures, Tips & Other Things You Need to Know

Non-stop flights are, no doubt, the most convenient way to travel by air. However, there are many situations in which they are not an option – whether because of the route you need to travel on or because they are expensive. In those cases, you’ll have to take connecting flights. If you haven’t flown yet

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Non-Stop, Direct, and Connecting Flights: What Are the Differences?

Non-Stop, Direct, and Connecting Flights: What Are the Differences?

Many people including me often use the phrases “non-stop flight” and “direct flight” interchangeably. And, while there are situations when the terms are interchangeable, that’s not always the case. In this article, I’ll take a look at what non-stop, direct, as well as connecting flights are. I’ll also give you some examples of each and

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Saudi Arabian 747SP

Boeing 747SP: The Smallest and Rarest of the Jumbo Jets

While Boeing 747 is generally associated with large capacity, there is one variant of the 747 that’s an outlier in that regard – the 747SP. This aircraft, developed to help airlines make long but thin routes profitable didn’t become a bestseller. In fact, only 45 airframes of the type were manufactured. That said, the “SP”

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Four Points by Sheraton Nagoya Centrair Standard Room

Review: Four Points by Sheraton Nagoya, Chubu International Airport

Having been opened on November 1, 2018, Four Points by Sheraton is the latest of the five airport hotels located directly on the Nagoya Centrair airport island. It’s also the only major international brand hotel at the airport. In the past, I reviewed two of those: TUBE Sq (a capsule hotel inside the terminal) and Toyoko

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