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Asia on a Whim: JFK-SFO on American Flagship Service with a visit to the JFK Flagship Lounge

Introduction
TPA-MIA-JFK on American with a visit to the MIA Flagship Lounge
The Andaz Wall Street
JFK-SFO on American Flagship Service with a visit to the JFK Flagship Lounge
SFO-HKG on Cathay Pacific with a visit to the BA F lounge
The Wing and HKG-DPS on Cathay Pacific
The Grand Hyatt Bali
The InterContinental Bali
DPS-HKG on Cathay Pacific
The Hyatt Regency Hong Kong [...]

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: American, Awards, Travel, Trip Reports | 3 Comments »

Asia on a Whim: TPA-MIA-JFK on American with a visit to the MIA Flagship Lounge

Introduction
TPA-MIA-JFK on American with a visit to the MIA Flagship Lounge
The Andaz Wall Street
JFK-SFO on American Flagship Service with a visit to the JFK Flagship Lounge
SFO-HKG on Cathay Pacific with a visit to the BA F lounge
The Wing and HKG-DPS on Cathay Pacific
The Grand Hyatt Bali
The InterContinental Bali
DPS-HKG on Cathay Pacific
The Hyatt Regency Hong Kong [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: American, Awards, Travel, Trip Reports | 5 Comments »

Asia on a Whim: Introduction

Introduction
TPA-MIA-JFK on American with a visit to the MIA Flagship Lounge
The Andaz Wall Street
JFK-SFO on American Flagship Service with a visit to the JFK Flagship Lounge
SFO-HKG on Cathay Pacific with a visit to the BA F lounge
The Wing and HKG-DPS on Cathay Pacific
The Grand Hyatt Bali
The InterContinental Bali
DPS-HKG on Cathay Pacific
The Hyatt Regency Hong Kong [...]

Posted on March 18th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, Trip Reports | 3 Comments »

Here we go!

And my trip to New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Bali starts today. As usual, you can expect plenty of updates (and this time around quite a bit of tweeting) and a trip report within a week or two of my trip. I’ll be sampling American’s domestic first class product, American’s Flagship Service, Cathay [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: American, Awards, Cathay Pacific, Hyatt | 27 Comments »

Your chance to fly Singapore’s new business class product using miles

As much as I love Singapore Airlines, they really do frustrate me. When they rolled out their fantastic new first and business class products they “blocked” those seats from award inventory, meaning you couldn’t get an award seat with them unless you have miles in their frequent flyer program and are willing to pay basically [...]

Posted on March 1st, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, Singapore | 5 Comments »

Why booking awards can be frustrating at times….

Earlier in the week I mentioned that I had a very frustrating experience booking an AAdvantage award, but fortunately everything worked out fine. Before I get into my rant, I’d like to say this up front — agents that deal with award tickets do NOT have an easy job. People are unrealistic. They want to [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: American, Awards | 18 Comments »

Off to the InterContinental Bali next week….

I tend to plan “exotic” international trips with a decent bit of advance notice because anticipation is often the best part of vacations. Well, not this time. My brother and I will be heading to Bali in Cathay Pacific first class next week. Tough life, right?
You’re probably wondering why we waited so long to book. I knew our spring [...]

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: American, Awards, Cathay Pacific, Hotels, Priority Club, Travel | 15 Comments »

Boy, do I have an American AAdvantage award redemption story on the way….

I’ve booked hundreds of awards in my lifetime, but this one takes the cake, and I don’t mean that in a good way. Stay tuned.

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: American, Awards | 12 Comments »

I’m about to book a longhaul segment in United First….

….someone please convince me otherwise! And this is for an award on which my brother will join me, and he’s a wine snob. What has gotten into me?!?!

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, United | 35 Comments »

United adjusts award chart starting April 27

Well, it looks like some changes are coming to United’s award chart starting April 27. Fortunately it’s just about the mildest “change” I’ve seen in the airline industry in a very long time, and might actually be positive.
On the plus side, awards to parts of South America are actually getting cheaper. Previously United just had [...]

Posted on February 12th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, United | 2 Comments »

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