If you have been following this blog (or similar ones) for a while or if you did some research on how to access airport lounges, you have likely heard of Priority Pass. Aside from flying in first/business class or having a frequent flyer status, it is arguably the best and easiest way to access airport […]
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Did you ever watch a huge airplane such as an A380 and wonder how this huge machine weighing almost 600 tons can get off the ground and fly? And once you stopped trying to work that out, did you then begin to wonder how high an airplane will fly after it has taken off and
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Air Canada Express uses a fleet of dozens of Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s on short hops around the country. One of the routes it uses the aircraft on is from Edmonton to Calgary which I had a chance to try during my recent trip to Yellowknife. Continue reading this review to see what the 30-minute
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If you are coming from the US or Asia and are not used to flying short-haul business class within Europe, you might be in for a surprise. While the onboard service is not too different from what you might be used to, the seats will in the vast majority cases not be what you expect
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Air Canada operates a fairly extensive network of lounges both within Canada, as well as around the world. While I had a chance to visit the currently-closed Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge at Paris CDG Airport in the past, I haven’t visited one within Canada until my recent trip to Yellowknife. On that trip, I
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The Boeing 767 and Airbus A350 are both twin-engine, twin-aisle widebodies. The 767 first went into service in 1982, and the A350 followed decades later in 2015. While the passenger variants of the 767 are no longer in production and the numbers in commercial airline fleets are dwindling, the 767 freighter and tanker are still
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Over the years, the number of Dash 7 four-engined turboprops flying around the world has dwindled. With airlines like Air Greenland retiring the type out of their fleet, only two airlines operate the type on scheduled passenger flights today – Yellowknife-based Air Tindi and Nairobi-based Airkenya Express. Recently, I had a chance to spend
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After spending a few days in Yellowknife, it was time to continue my around-the-Northern-Hemisphere trip and head to my next destination – Vienna, Austria. Doing so involved four flights the first of which was a short hop down from Yellowknife to Edmonton on an Air Canada Express CRJ-900. Continue reading to see what the economy
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The inability to fly over Russia turned Finnair’s biggest advantage in connecting Europe with Asia into a disadvantage resulting in hours of extra flying time. That said, oftentimes it still is a viable option on those routes and might also pop up when you search for flights between the United States and Europe, for example.
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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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