Airlines

I flew Virgin Atlantic from San Francisco to London back in May. Used Delta points for the flight, it cost 35k points which is not bad. Sometimes it can be much higher than that. Overall I was distinctly unimpressed with this flight. Seats The seats were mediocre, there was something about lumbar

We flew Turkish from San Francisco to Karachi via Istanbul back in September. We used Chase points to directly purchase on the Chase travel site. That was cheaper than transferring points to (say) United and then getting the ticket using Mileage Plus. The ticket was just over $900 which included a s

We flew to Tahiti from LA on ThanksGiving 2019. We got a relatively good fare from San Jose to PPT via LAX (it was actually a Delta fare but with Air France as the carrier from LAX to PPT). This configuration is 10 abreast seating with narrower seating than those with 9 abreast. However, we paid ex

My wife took a United flight from San Francisco to London a few weeks ago. This was the (somewhat) new 300ER with 10 abreast seating in economy (meaning narrower seats than previous 777s with 9 abreast seating). We were fortunate to grab one of the few two seaters at the back of the plane so it'd ju

My wife an I flew from San Jose, CA to Frankfurt in September 2018. Here are my personal views on the experience. Lufthansa operates an Airbus 340-300 on this route (or used to, it has canceled this flight as of Oct 2018). This direct flight is super convenient for those in the South Bay (we live

Back in January of 2018, I flew from SFO to KHI in economy on Emirates. This is a very personal review of that flight, with particular emphasis on the "muslim friendliness" of the experience. Long line at checkin, which is to be expected for a full flight. I didn't see any airport staff at SFO wear

My wife and I flew Qatar Airways business class from Karachi to San Francisco in April 2021. It was during pandemic but after vaccines were out. We went (we took Turkish on the way out) exactly two weeks after getting our shots. I used American Airlines miles to book this ticket, it cost 70k points.

Last week, I flew from Chicago to Istanbul in Turkish Airlines business class. This was one leg of a journey from SFO to KHI. We used United miles to get the ticket which cost us 80k points back in March when we got it. The prices seem to have skyrocketed, currently, United doesn't offer SFO -> KHI

I took a United flight from London back to San Francisco a week ago. There are two United flights, one is a 300ER (reviewed separately), this one was a -200. But refitted with the new 1-2-1 Polaris biz class and (more pertinently) 10 abreast economy seating vs the previous 9 abreast. They changed th

We flew on board an Airbus A350-900 from San Francisco to HongKong on the way to Bali for our Thanksgiving break. Booking We had quite a few Chase Rewards points so wanted to use those to go to Bali. We considered transferring points to a number of airline partners or just buying the ticket through

What makes an airline experience (from the perspective of a passenger, not an employee) muslim friendly? Here are some thougths: 1. Food: availability and quality of halal food 2. Infotainment: whether they have one, do they show the direction of the qibla (is it correct!), do they show times of the