While it’s still December 31, 2018, in Slovakia where I am right now, it’s already January 1, 2018, in Japan where I’m usually based. So, Happy New Year! I wish you all the best in 2019, and I’d like to thank you for reading KN Aviation in 2018. And, of course, I hope you will […]
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A week ago, my girlfriend and I flew with Aeroflot from Tokyo to Vienna via Moscow to spend the holidays with my family in Slovakia. While the two flights themselves (as well as the two flights of my girlfriend’s return trip) were perfectly fine, as the title of this post suggests, that cannot be said
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A couple of days ago, I published a review of Iberia’s flight from Madrid to Tokyo. At 6,707 miles of great-circle distance, it’s the longest flight in my log book. That said, it’s just three miles ahead of the second longest route I’ve flown on, Doha to New York. Even with a flight time longer than
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Iberia uses a fleet of ten Airbus A330-200 aircraft on some of its longest flights including flights to Buenos Aires in Argentina and Montevideo in Uruguay. It uses the type on its route from Madrid to Tokyo that it launched (restarted) in 2016 as well. That’s the route I had a chance to fly it
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Iberia operates three lounges at Madrid Barajas airport. All of those are located in its Terminal 4, and there is one in the Schengen departure area of the main building (Iberia Premium Lounge Dali), one in the non-Schengen departure area of the satellite building (Iberia Premium Lounge Velazquez), and one in the arrivals hall. The
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While there’s a hotel inside Madrid airport’s terminal 4, most of the airport hotels are located a short shuttle bus ride away from the terminals, near Barajas station. One of such hotels is the Hotel Tach Madrid Airport where I stayed during my overnight layover at the airport back in October. The hotel is not
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Iberia, the Spanish flag carrier, mainly uses a fleet of Airbus A320 series aircraft on its intra-European flights. And, similarly to British Airways which is part of the same IAG group, it operates those flights using the “LCC model” – meaning there is no free onboard service. Recently, I had a chance to fly on
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Besides a couple of Austrian Airlines lounges in Vienna airport’s terminal 3, there are also four contract lounges – one in both Schengen and non-Schengen parts of both the old and new terminals. In the past I visited and wrote about Sky Lounge Schengen in terminal 3 and Air Lounge in terminal 1’s non-Schengen part. In October,
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I first learned about Chris Hadfield when his rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity performed while floating onboard the International Space Station went viral on the Internet. Then I saw his fascinating TED Talk titled What I Learned from Going Blind in Space. And then, an intriguing ad for his MasterClass about space exploration started to pop
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Are you interested in trying business or first class for FREE at a deep discount?
If so, you might want to check out Four Ways to Try Business & First Class Without Breaking the Bank and experiment with some of the methods mentioned in it.
It’s a free guide that I put together detailing some of the ways I was able to do so myself.
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