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Trip Preview: Visiting Slovakia to Attend a Wedding with a "Retro Avgeek" Bonus

Trip Preview: Visiting Slovakia to Attend a Wedding with a “Retro Avgeek” Bonus

In October, I took a two-week trip to Europe – mostly Slovakia – to attend wedding of my high school friends. Even though getting some new review material for this website was nowhere near the top of the agenda for this trip, I still managed to try a fair amount of new airlines (and even […]

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Yakushima: The Island of Princess Mononoke and 1000-Year-Old Cedars

Yakushima: The Island of Princess Mononoke and 1000-Year-Old Cedars

While I don’t write about destinations on this blog too often, every now and then, I visit a place that I absolutely think deserves an article. Yakushima, an island off the coast of mainland Kyushu in Japan, is certainly one of those places. The island’s ancient forest with thousand-plus-year-old Yakusugi cedars has been an inspiration

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Trip Preview: From Sapporo in the North to Yakushima and Okinawa in the South

Trip Preview: From Sapporo in the North to Yakushima and Okinawa in the South

After spending a good part of May and June abroad thanks to my trips to Canada and New Zealand, it was time to do some domestic travel in July. While I did two separate trips in the month, I decided to combine the introduction into one article as neither of the trips was particularly long.

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Delta Air Lines Announces Plans to Launch Seattle - Osaka Route in 2019

Delta Air Lines Announces Plans to Launch Seattle – Osaka Route in 2019

Yesterday, Delta Air Lines announced that it plans to launch scheduled flights between Seattle in the United States and Osaka Kansai airport in Japan in 2019. Delta Air Lines’ Second Route to Osaka Kansai Airport While the exact start date and schedule of the new route haven’t been announced yet, the airline plans to operate

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Emirates to Upgrade Dubai - Osaka Kansai to Airbus A380 in October 2018

Emirates to Upgrade Dubai – Osaka Kansai to Airbus A380 in October 2018

In a Facebook post published several hours ago, Emirates announced that it would upgrade the aircraft type serving its Dubai – Osaka Kansai route to an Airbus A380 starting from October 28, 2018. From then on, the “superjumbo” will fly between the two cities daily instead of the currently scheduled Boeing 777-300ER with the following

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