Last year, I was fortunate enough to fly on NASA’s airborne observatory – SOFIA – in Christchurch, New Zealand. Last month, I had a chance to experience another one of the agency’s research aircraft – Douglas DC-8. I won’t talk much about that in this article, though. Instead, I’ll give you a brief overview of […]
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Some days ago, I published a report about the first Jetstar Japan flight from Tokyo Narita to Shimojishima. While the inaugural flight didn’t take me to a brand new airport, it took me to an airport that has been “reborn” thanks to a brand new terminal and resumed scheduled service after about a 25-year hiatus.
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If, for some reason, you find yourself with small amounts of miles across different mileage programs, you might be asking yourself whether there is a way to pool them into one of those accounts. Similarly, if you have, let’s say 30,000 American Airlines miles and 40,000 Alaska Airlines miles, you might be wondering whether you
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In October 2017, Mitsubishi Estate started construction of a new terminal at Shimojishima airport in Okinawa. When announcing the construction, they also mentioned their slogan for the terminal-to-be: Your resort starts from the Airport. Having just landed at Shimojishima airport on the first scheduled flight to arrive therein almost 25 years, I can say the
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Over a year ago, I wrote about a plane spotting trip to Phuket – and how the ticket I used for that trip left me with a Tokyo – Singapore – Tokyo – Sapporo segments to fly later. Because of on reason or another, I rescheduled and pushed back taking those flights a couple of
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If you ever watched a war movie or similar, you likely heard of “Zulu time.” Similarly, you might have encountered people using words like “Alpha” and “Bravo” when trying to spell something out. All of those words are code words that NATO assigned to letters in the alphabet and turned into the NATO phonetic alphabet
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As talked about briefly in my article about how fast passenger airplanes fly, generally speaking, there are two different types of speed when talking about airplanes – ground speed and airspeed. While ground speed is the airplane’s speed relative to the surface of the Earth, airspeed – at least true airspeed – is its speed
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As I was searching for flights to get from Tokyo to Vienna in December of last year, several options showed up. By far the cheapest of them was Aeroflot – and so, having flown the airline numerous times before, I went ahead and booked a one-way ticket for myself (as I already had a return
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When you book a ticket, it generally says how long your flight will be. However, it doesn’t mention the speed at which you will fly. While knowing the speed is not crucial to your travels, it’s a nice “fun fact” to know. So, how fast do airliners fly? Generally speaking, jet passenger and cargo planes
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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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