ENGLISH Posts in the 2019 Spring Trip to SE Asia series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Getting to Bali 3. Part II: Bali 4. Part III: The Flights to/from Labuan Bajo 5. Part IV: Labuan Bajo 6. Part V: The Komodo National Park (1) 7. Part VI: The Komodo National Park (2) 8. Part VII:…
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#2259 – 2018 Year End Trip (Part VIII: Air France/KLM JFK-CDG-AMS in Economy)
ENGLISH Posts in the 2018 Year End Trip series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Getting to Miami 3. Part II: Miami 4. Part III: Miami Beach 5. Part IV: Getting to Austin 6. Part V: Austin 7. Part VI: Getting to New York 8. Part VII: New York 9. Part VIII: Back to Europe To…
#2252 – 2018 Year End Trip (Part VI: AUS-ATL-LGA on Delta A321’s Main Cabin)
ENGLISH Posts in the 2018 Year End Trip series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Getting to Miami 3. Part II: Miami 4. Part III: Miami Beach 5. Part IV: Getting to Austin 6. Part V: Austin 7. Part VI: Getting to New York 8. Part VII: New York 9. Part VIII: Back to Europe As…
#2248 – The End of the Airbus A380
ENGLISH Yesterday, Airbus officially announced that they had decided to stop the production of the Airbus A380, the largest passenger airplane in the world, from 2021. Only seventeen more A380s will be manufactured until then, fourteen for Emirates and three for ANA. To be honest, this is actually not surprising. For so long, it has…
#2242 – Flying JetBlue’s Reconfigured A320 “Core” Class
ENGLISH Earlier this January, I flew from Fort Lauderdale, Florida (FLL) to Austin, Texas (AUS) with JetBlue as part of my 2018 year end trip. I was looking forward to this flight as it would be my first with JetBlue, which meant I finally would get to experience first-hand the “hype” I have been reading…
#2237 – 2018 Year End Trip (Part I: Delta AMS-DTW-MIA in Delta Comfort+)
ENGLISH Posts in the 2018 Year End Trip series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Getting to Miami 3. Part II: Miami 4. Part III: Miami Beach 5. Part IV: Getting to Austin 6. Part V: Austin 7. Part VI: Getting to New York 8. Part VII: New York 9. Part VIII: Back to Europe I…
#2226 – 2018 In The Air
ENGLISH Just like in 2015, 2016, and in 2017, I am going to recap my flying activities in 2018 😛 . In terms of the total number of flights, I actually flew less than I did last year, at “only” 65 flights, haha 🙈. Though distance-wise, I actually travelled further at 50,789 miles (81,737 km). And…
#2221 – A Delayed Flight Story
ENGLISH So I went on a weekend trip to Barcelona at the end of November, and for this trip I took the following routing: I took KLM’s direct Amsterdam-Barcelona late afternoon flight to Barcelona; and the Joon/Air France Barcelona-Paris-Amsterdam combo to get back to Amsterdam with a scheduled 1 hour and 20 minutes of transfer time in…
