If you ask someone what a Jumbo Jet can do, you will likely get one of the following two answers: transport passengers or haul cargo. Both of those are, of course, correct. But, did you know that there is a Boeing 747 that helps us better understand the universe? That’s exactly what Stratospheric Observatory for […]
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Flight Information Date: May 10, 2018 Flight No.: AC871 Route: Paris Charles de Gaulle to Montreal Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Airline: Air Canada Type: Boeing 777-300ER Registration: C-FJZS Air Canada operates two daily flights between Paris and Montreal, one with a Boeing 777-300ER and another with an Airbus A330-300. Back in May, I had a chance to take the earlier
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Air Canada operates its own Maple Leaf Lounges at airports throughout Canada and the United States, as well as at airports in some other countries that it serves. One of those is France where an Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge can be found at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. While I am not a Star
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British Airways operates several lounges at its London Heathrow hub. Prior to my flight to Paris, I had a chance to visit the British Airways Galleries Lounge North located, as its name suggests, in the North Concourse of the airline’s home, Terminal 5. Besides being accessible to British Airways’ (and other oneworld airlines’) business and
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Except for the Sheraton which is located directly inside Paris Charles de Gaulle airport’s terminal 2, the Ibis Styles is about as close to the airport as it gets. Since I arrived at CDG airport late at night and I had an early afternoon flight to catch the next day during my recent trip to
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When I first started typing this, I was sitting on a flight from Brisbane to Tokyo that I thought I would miss. And, as I am posting this, I am back in Japan, albeit with a 3-hour delay. Everything started off normally when I left my hotel in Christchurch around 4AM and headed to the
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Suppose you were shooting at a target moving from your left to your right at 100,000 kilometers per hour with a bullet traveling at 950 kilometers per hour. Substitute “shooting a target” for “aiming to witness a stellar occultation” and “a bullet” for “an aircraft,” and you roughly get one of the most challenging missions
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Flight Information Date: May 9, 2018 Flight No.: BA6 Route:Tokyo Narita to London Heathrow Airline: British Airways Type:Â Boeing 787-9 Registration: G-ZBKR The first flight on my way from Japan to Canada was with British Airways from Tokyo to London. While it was my second flight on the route this year (I flew from London to
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With the brief series about a weekend trip to Nagoya I did back in April finished, it’s time for the next (and until the end of this week the only) trip in the backlog – a trip to Canada I did back in May. With twelve nights, twelve flights, and more than 25 thousand miles,
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