Los Angeles to Sydney on Virgin Australia

My seatmate

The moment you step on one of Virgin Australia’s 777-300 planes all the anxiety about a 14-hour flight goes away. The flight attendants are so nice and their product is amazing – especially in business class. Here’s my play-by-play of last night’s flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. Trip: LAX-SYD Airline: Virgin Australia Aircraft: 777-300 Scheduled [...]

British Airways Launches $2012 Business Class Fare to London

British Airways

British Airways announced today a limited time $2012 business class roundtrip fare to London, to give people the chance to travel to Europe in style this summer. The sale starts on Wednesday, June 27 and runs until July 3, 2012 and includes all taxes, fees and charges. With travel between July 16 and September 2, 2012 [...]

New York to Paris in Air France’s Business Class

Air France tails

Bonjour from Paris! I just arrived in Paris on Air France Flight 17, which departs New York’s JFK at 6:20pm and normally arrives at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) at 7:30am – but we arrived 17 minutes early! Flight time was 7 hours and 40 minutes and the flight was easy and smooth. Here’s [...]

NY to India on Qatar Airways Business Class

Seats 1 A&B

Yesterday, I flew from New York to Mumbai via Doha on Qatar Airways. It was my first time flying on Qatar and I hope it’s not my last.

Thai Airways

HKT-BKK-HKG-LAX-Feb-2011-1

What a crazy week. It was as if the story line had come straight from Hollywood. It began with a fairy tale wedding and ended with the villain being taken out. Okay, in Hollywood the events would have been reversed (who doesn’t like a happy ending?) but you get the point. Mark Twain said it [...]