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#promisemadepromisekept: Cathay Pacific Honors Incredible New Year Fare

#promisemadepromisekept: Cathay Pacific Honors Incredible New Year Fare

Just as the New Year fireworks finished in Nitra, Slovakia, where I was at the time, I noticed posts about very low business and first class fares from Vietnam to North America on One Mile at a Time. The business class fares – starting around 675 dollars – were attractive, but at the same time,

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Transferring at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport: Highly NOT-Recommended

Transferring at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport: Highly NOT-Recommended

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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Trip Preview: In Search of the Best Singapore Airlines Flat-Bed

Trip Preview: In Search of the Best Singapore Airlines Flat-Bed

After having a great experience onboard Singapore Airlines’ regional A330 business class between Singapore and Delhi last year, I really wanted to try the airline’s long-haul product which is well-known for offering a massive seat. The opportunity for me to do so came when the airline started operating A380s with a revamped business class cabin

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The 10 Longest Scheduled Flights in the World: Routes, Airlines, Types, and More

The 10 Longest Scheduled Flights in the World: Routes, Airlines, Types, and More

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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Learn the Basics of Space Exploration: Chris Hadfield's MasterClass Review

Learn the Basics of Space Exploration: Chris Hadfield’s MasterClass Review

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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