Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: TPA-ORD on United
Part 3: ORD-ZRH on Swiss
Part 4: ZRH-LHR on Swiss and LHR-IST on Turkish
Part 5: InterContinental Istanbul
Part 6: Istanbul
Part 7: IST-HKG on Turkish
Part 8: InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong
Part 9: InterContinental Hong Kong
Part 10: Hong Kong
Part 11: HKG-BKK-MUC on Thai
Part 12: MUC-ZRH-JFK on Swiss
Part 13: JFK-TPA on Delta
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After a great [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, Travel, Trip Reports, Turkish | 7 Comments »
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: TPA-ORD on United
Part 3: ORD-ZRH on Swiss
Part 4: ZRH-LHR on Swiss and LHR-IST on Turkish
Part 5: InterContinental Istanbul
Part 6: Istanbul
Part 7: IST-HKG on Turkish
Part 8: InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong
Part 9: InterContinental Hong Kong
Part 10: Hong Kong
Part 11: HKG-BKK-MUC on Thai
Part 12: MUC-ZRH-JFK on Swiss
Part 13: JFK-TPA on Delta
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ZRH isn’t half [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, Swiss, Travel, Trip Reports, Turkish | 10 Comments »
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: TPA-ORD on United
Part 3: ORD-ZRH on Swiss
Part 4: ZRH-LHR on Swiss and LHR-IST on Turkish
Part 5: InterContinental Istanbul
Part 6: Istanbul
Part 7: IST-HKG on Turkish
Part 8: InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong
Part 9: InterContinental Hong Kong
Part 10: Hong Kong
Part 11: HKG-BKK-MUC on Thai
Part 12: MUC-ZRH-JFK on Swiss
Part 13: JFK-TPA on Delta
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It was the [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Air Canada, Awards, Other Airlines, Swiss, Travel, Trip Reports, Turkish, United | 10 Comments »
Now this is exciting news. Turkish Airlines currently operates some 777-300ERs which they are leasing from Jet Airways, one of the best airlines out there. These aircraft are equipped with lie flat business class seats and suites in first class. The seats and entertainment are among the best out there, and the food is excellent [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, Turkish | 9 Comments »
I never really posted about our second Turkish Airways flight from Istanbul to Hong Kong, so I figured I’d briefly do that now. First of all, we once again had the cabin to ourselves, so that’s three “private” international first class cabins in a row. And, as expected based on the 0% on-time performance of [...]
Posted on August 21st, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, Turkish | 2 Comments »
After a GREAT stay in Istanbul (more to come on that later), it’s time to head to Hong Kong. The Turkish First ground services here are mighty impressive, so I’ll just leave you with a quick picture before boarding our 10 hour flight:
Posted on August 19th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, Turkish | 5 Comments »
Two things worth noting, should you be able to read that. First, check out the on-time performance. ZERO percent! I’m not really surprised, judging by the delay we had from Heathrow on Turkish. It doesn’t seem like they’re really concerned about delays, because there was no announcement from the flight deck and no apology upon [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, Turkish | 3 Comments »
Not that this is significant in the grand scheme of things, but in the million or so miles I’ve flown in my life (spread across all kinds of airlines), the landing on the Turkish flight from London to Istanbul was probably the roughest I’ve ever experienced. I didn’t think much of it, but as we [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, Turkish | 4 Comments »
As if having the whole first class cabin on Chicago to Zurich to myself wasn’t cool enough, it just happened again. My brother and I were the only passengers in first class on our Turkish Airways flight from London to Istanbul. This time it was more fun since we were together. We also had two flight [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Awards, Travel, Turkish | 4 Comments »
So I was checking out the availability of my flights for my upcoming trip to Asia on ExpertFlyer, and I couldn’t help but notice an interesting statistic for my flight from Istanbul to Hong Kong:
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Posted on July 25th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel, Turkish | 5 Comments »
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