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ANA Mileage Club Airline and Transfer Partners

ANA Mileage Club Airline and Transfer Partners to Know About

While you can, of course, earn and spend ANA Mileage Club miles on flights operated by ANA, the airline also partners with dozens of other airlines. Additionally, there are also a number of transfer partners that allow you to convert their points into ANA miles. Continue reading to find out all you need to know …

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Etihad A380s in 2023: Routes, Fleet & Retirement Plans

Etihad A380s in 2023: Routes, Fleet & Retirement Plans

With Etihad Airways putting the Airbus A380 back into service after grounding the type during the COVID-19 pandemic, all three of the major Middle Eastern airlines including Emirates and Qatar Airways operate the Superjumbo now. Continue reading to find out what flights the Etihad A380 can be flown on, how many A380s it has in …

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SkyTeam Elite Plus

SkyTeam Elite Plus Benefits (& Other Things You Should Know About the Status)

SkyTeam, like Star Alliance and oneworld, offers frequent travelers on its member airlines alliance-wide statuses. The alliance has two such statuses – Elite and Elite Plus. In this article, I will take a close look at the latter which is harder to earn but also offers more benefits including airport lounge access compared to the former. Continue …

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SkyTeam Elite

SkyTeam Elite Benefits (& Other Things You Should Know About the Status)

SkyTeam has, like Star Alliance, two levels of alliance status: Elite and Elite Plus. While Elite is the lower level of the two, it offers some perks that the other two major alliances do not offer to their lowest-tier frequent flyer status holders. The most notable of those is extra baggage allowance. Continue reading this …

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ANA Lounges: Access Policy, Locations & Other Things to Know

ANA Lounges: Access Policy, Locations & Other Things to Know

Like most major airlines, ANA operates a network of lounges at its major hubs and at other airports, it typically offers lounge access in the form of another Star Alliance member airline’s lounge or a third-party contract lounge. The airline operates lounges for both domestic and international passengers. The one thing that makes ANA’s lounge …

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Emirates A380 in Beijing

Emirates A380s in 2023: Routes, Fleet & Retirement Plans

Emirates only operates two aircraft types at this point – Airbus A380 and Boeing 777. Having received over 100 A380s from Airbus – and with most of them still being active – it is the world’s largest operator of the type. As such, it’s no surprise that the Emirates A380 can be seen on dozens …

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Oneworld Emerald

Oneworld Emerald Benefits (& Other Things You Should Know About the Status)

Oneworld is the only one of the three major airline alliances to have three tiers of status (both Star Alliance and SkyTeam only have two), each offering a set of increasingly better benefits to frequent flyers. The alliance’s top tier status – oneworld Emerald – is, in terms of perks offered, the best alliance status out …

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Oneworld Sapphire Benefits

Oneworld Sapphire Benefits (& Other Things You Should Know About the Status)

Each of the three major airline alliances offers their member airlines’ frequent flyers alliance-wide statuses. While Star Alliance and SkyTeam have two tiers of such statuses, oneworld has three. Sapphire is the alliance’s mid-tier status – better than Ruby but not as attractive as Emerald. Continue reading to learn what benefits you can enjoy as a …

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