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Flight: EK83 DXB-GVA ETD: 14:55 ATD: 14:55 ETA: 19:45 ATA: 19:25 Cabin: First (“Gamechanger”) Seat: 2A AC: 777-300 (A6-EQP) The suite is beautiful! How else to open this part of the TR? The suite is beautiful. The quality of the finishes, the attention to detail, the colour palette (much...

My current view from the outside terrace of the Aspire Lounge in ZRH

Emirates First Class Lounge (Concourse A) My taxi pulled up in front of the dedicated Emirates business and first class wing of Dubai T3. There was a swarm or porters trying to get my attention. I guess that’s a hard gig in this day and age of wheelie bags! The taxi driver helped take my...

Impressions of Dubai On my first day in Dubai, I gave myself a rest day. I spent time by the hotel pool, napped a little bit and then wandered over to Dubai Mall to find something quick, cheap and easy for dinner. Seeing as it took the best part of half an hour to find the food court in this...

Sofitel Downtown Dubai I booked, waivered and cancelled a few different Accor hotels in Dubai. Initially I made a reservation at the Sofitel Obelisk based on price and pictures of the room decor. Then when I dug a bit more deeply into the hotel’s location I decided it probably wasn’t so...

Flight: BA109 LHR-DXB ETD: 21:30 ATD: 22:00 ETA: 07:30 (+1) ATA: 07:35 (+1) Cabin: First (upgraded from J) Seat: 1K AC: 777-200 (G-VIIE) It was a relief to leave the chaos of LHR behind me and walk down the jet bridge, and to turn left and into the … chaos … of BA First class. Actually it’s not...

Transit in London It’s probably not that often that one would hear the words “I’m transiting in London on my way to Dubai” from the mouth of someone travelling from Australia or SE Asia to the Middle East. Well, I can now say that I have uttered that sentence. My flight from Hong Kong touched...

Flight: CX251 HKG-LHR ETD: 22:25 ATD: 22:55 ETA: 05:40 ATA: 05:10 Cabin: First Seat: 1A AC: 777-300 (B-KQK) I arrived at the gate about 10 minutes prior to the boarding time stated on my boarding pass. There was little sign of movement at this time, with a bevy of ground staff behind the podium...

I also read somewhere that airlines can play silly buggers with how they measure width, in part to conceal how narrow 9 across 787s and 10 across 777s really are compared to other members of their fleets. There isn’t a standard definition for width the same way there is for pitch (measured...

HKG Lounges My Hong Kong transit was roughly 5 hours. If It wasn’t for F lounge hopping opportunities, I would have quite seriously considered getting the Airport Express train to Central, then jumped on a Star Ferry to TST, stuck my head into the beautiful chaos of the ground floor of...

Flight: CX690 ETD: 12:55 ATD: 12:47 ETA: 17:15 ATA: 16:37 Cabin: Business Seat: 20K AC: A350-900 (B-LRL) I was excited to board this flight as it was my first ever trip on an A350. Covid led to the cancellation of a couple of flights that would have been my first ride on the most modern...

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Out of sequence update. I scored an OpUp from Club World to First on my LHR-DXB leg. What are the chances of THAT on an award ticket. The upgrade gods are truly smiling because I’m having breakfast at the Sofitel Downtown Dubai while my upgraded Opera Suite is being prepared for early checkin...

Second Singapore Transit of the Trip We landed in Singapore on time. During the long taxi when my phone reconnected my heart sank when it pinged to say my bag was 467km away. Thankfully a moment later I appeared to have been reunited with it in Singapore. Clearly there’s a bit of latency with...

Flight: MH611 ETD: 9:05 ATD: 9:06 ETA: 10:15 ATA: 10:15 Cabin: Business Seat: 2A AC: 737-800 (9M-MLO) My airport transfer dropped me in front of a busy KLIA terminal 1 just on 7am. It wasn’t immediately evident where MH’s business class check in counters were. I wandered around the economy...

Pullman KLCC My taxi pulled up at the front of Pullman KLCC around 2pm. After a bit of a wait at the Accor priority check in line I was escorted up to level 4 to the Executive Lounge to check in as an Accor Diamond member. Honestly, more often than not I’d just prefer to be checked in then and...

Impressions of Kuala Lumpur Despite the fact that I’ve been to Kota Kinabalu a couple of times, as well as into the jungles of Sarawak to visit the incredible World Heritage listed caves in Mulu National Park, this trip is my first visit to peninsular Malaysia and to KL - other than to transit...

I’ve prebooked my 6am pickup back to the airport via Klook for RM138 in a ‘comfort’ SUV. At that hour of the morning I like the peace of mind of a pre-booked ride to the airport rather than chancing it with Grab or taxis.

Flight: MH614 ETD: 11:05 ATD: 11:40 ETA: 12:05 ATA: 12:45 Cabin: Business Seat: 2A AC: 737-800 (9M-MLQ) 9M-MLQ pulling into the gate after arriving from KUL. Some rain and distant lightning about. There isn’t really a great deal to report on this uneventful short hop from SIN-KUL. It’s a...

Transit in Singapore I used Agoda to book a room at the T1 Aerohotel for my overnight stay in Singapore. Initially I’d made a reservation at an off airport hotel to save $150 but in the end I decided that the cost and hassle of transport and clearing immigration wasn’t worth $150 to me. At the...