Trip Preview: Fuji Dream, Orbis, and Japan’s Six Largest Metro Areas

While Fuji Dream Airlines has the most flights out of Nagoya Komaki Airport, it is a Shizuoka-born airline and operates quite a few flights out of Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport. With my wife being from Shizuoka, I decided to finally try the airline on our most recent trip to visit her parents. During the week-long

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Airbus A330 vs. Boeing 787: How Do They Compare?

Airbus A330 vs. Boeing 787: How Do They Compare?

The Boeing 787 and the Airbus A330neo variants are direct competitors with impressive ranges, operating on some of the world’s longest commercial air routes. The A330 had been flying commercially for 17 years before the 787 came on the scene. Airbus revamped and improved the original A330 variants and created the A330neo in direct response

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Finally It's 2019 Again: Looking Back at Travel in the COVID-19 Era

Finally It’s 2019 Again: Looking Back at Travel in the COVID-19 Era

At long last, on April 29, 2023, Japan canceled all of its COVID-19-related travel restrictions, joining the vast majority of other countries. Perhaps realizing the limited benefit of those measures at this point, the date the restrictions expired was moved up from the originally scheduled May 8, 2023. In either case, with my recent trip

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Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400 at Gate

All About Asiana 747s (& Flying on HL7428 – the Last Passenger One)

While there are still plenty of cargo 747-400s flying, that cannot be said about the passenger version of the aircraft. As such, I found it hard to resist catching a flight on Asiana’s sole remaining passenger 747-400 when it got scheduled to fly from Seoul to Tokyo back in April. Continue reading this article to

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Asiana A321neo Economy Class Cabin

Review: Asiana A321neo Economy Class from Fukuoka to Seoul Incheon

With non-stop flights between Tokyo and Seoul having no award availability when I needed to go, I ended up flying from Tokyo to Fukuoka and then on to Seoul during my recent trip to Korea. The second flight, from Fukuoka to Seoul, was operated by Asiana Airline’s Airbus A321neo. Continue reading this review to see

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