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Mine is longer than yours?

October 26, 2015 by unroadwarrior 4 Comments

The airlines have started a battle to be the one with the longest flight in the world. There are the regular players in play – the ones who have had the longest flight in the past, and Air India. Yes, Air India who during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley announced the Bangalore-San Fransisco…

Lounge Review: Maple Leaf Lounge, Frankfurt

May 28, 2014 by unroadwarrior 6 Comments

I have flown thru Frankfurt airport (FRA) tens of times. Living in the DC area, it is one of the best connected cities in Europe with 4 flights every day – 2 each by United and Lufthansa. (London’s Heathrow (LHR) has the best connectivity with 7 flights per day, thru three airlines – United, British…

Redeeming Barclaycard rewards

March 1, 2014 by unroadwarrior 1 Comment

One of my favorite cards that I started using last year is the Barclaycard Arrivalô World MasterCard®. It earns 2x points on ALL purchases – travel related or otherwise. Most there cards give 2x only on travel related purchases or on their own websites/portals. There is also an ongoing promotion to earn 40,000 points after…

Lounge Review: United Lounge, Tokyo Narita Airport

February 2, 2014 by unroadwarrior Leave A Comment

United has a massive lounge in Tokyo’s Narita airport. I had been to Tokyo on a couple of occasions before, but I was just passing thru and ended up using the ANA lounges, as I was flying ANA. On my last trip, I was returning to the US from Tokyo and was flying United. It…

The Worlds longest flight is dead. Long live the Worlds Longest Flight!

November 25, 2013 by unroadwarrior 6 Comments

A new king has been crowned! The Longest flight in the world is now Sydney (SYD) – Dallas (DFW) by Qantas – flight QF7. The previous ‘King’ was Singapore Airlines’ Singapore (SIN) – Newark (EWR) flight – flight SQ22. Singapore Airlines ended this flight last week – November 23rd, 2013, ending an era and extra-long…

Review: Royal Park Hotel, Tokyo

November 1, 2013 by unroadwarrior 2 Comments

This was my first time in Japan. I got to spend three days in Tokyo. I stayed the first night in the Royal Park Hotel in Nihonbashi. The next two nights were at the Tokyo Hilton in Shinjuku (awesome!), which I shall review in a later post. Location The Royal Park is a very nice…

What does the Global Entry ‘Card’ do anyways?

October 31, 2013 by unroadwarrior 40 Comments

I am not asking what the Global Entry program does – it is outright awesome – I am asking what the physical Global Entry card does. Do I even need to carry it around? Under what circumstances does it serve a purpose? For those of you not familiar with it, the Global Entry program allows…

Would you pay more for faster Air Travel?

August 11, 2013 by unroadwarrior 10 Comments

I ran across this very interesting article by Jason Paur of Wired, on the history and current state of supersonic air travel. It gives a good history lesson on high speed air travel. Typical commercial jet planes travel at a speed of 550 miles per hour (mph). This despite jet travel being capable of supersonic…

USAirways – Can an airline operate like this?

July 18, 2013 by unroadwarrior 16 Comments

The sheer incompetence shown by the US Airways Express staff at Charlotte airport last night was almost hard to believe. Could an airlines operations be so messed up that their own Gate Agents and their supervisors would not know for over two and a half hours what the status of a flight was? Or was…

Is flying getting worse and better?

June 12, 2013 by unroadwarrior Leave A Comment

I just read this excellent interview of Mark Gerhick, former chief counsel of the FAA about a book he wrote: ‘Full Upright And Locked Position‘ (I have not read the book. The full interview (on NPR) can be found here in both written and audio form. Here are some key points he makes: Traveling in…