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Flight: BA8766 ZRH-LCY ETD: 14:55 ATD: 15:30 ETA: 15:30 ATA: 16:00 Cabin: Economy Seat: 4A AC: E190 There were plenty of full service and LCC options to choose from for this leg from Zurich to London. I wanted to fly into London City rather than LHR or LGW for comparative ease of getting into...

Switzerland Ch3 continued... I did two hikes from Stoos. On the first day I did a fairly modest walk of approximately 9km among the lower hills and forests as a warm up to the following day’s much more challenging Gratwanderweg (ridge top or 'tightrope") walk. Most sane people do the ridge...

Switzerland Chapter 3 - Stoos Ending up in the alpine village of Stoos was basically an accident. Not really knowing where to find good day hikes and easy accessibility I initially just plugged Interlarken into a hotels.com search, thinking that might be a good base seeing as I had wheels. The...

Switzerland Chapter 2 Emmental and Bern Part 2 of my Swiss stay was spent with a friend from Northern NSW who married a Swiss woman. They live in an open plan loft on the top floor of a converted farm house amongst rolling green hills, cowbells and corn rows. I pulled up in front of the house...

It was a tongue in cheek comment on the fact that people often complain that the serving sizes in J on QF are too small and not filling

I wonder if the parsimonious bean counters at QF have seen the size of these business class meals on Air Astana!

A week in Switzerland When I first booked EK83 to Geneva I was tossing up between heading straight back to LHR to spend a week or so pottering around Wales or to have a quick look at Switzerland, a country I’d not been to before. Switzerland won out and I’m extremely glad it did. I had a...

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...