Category Archives: Travel

For love of the game

Posted on 16 November, 2011 by Mike

It’s that time of the year again: the time when frequent flyers everywhere start looking at their mileage summaries for the year, checking their numbers against the officially-published lists of requirements for elite status, and everyone wonders what next year’s … Continue reading →

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New York

Posted on 2 October, 2011 by Mike

When I first got off the train in Paris at Gare de Lyon five years ago, I felt like I was home. It was the sort of place that was immediately familiar, even though I’d never been there before. I’m … Continue reading →

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And thus my fall is much like my spring

Posted on 9 September, 2011 by Mike

This is what 11,921 miles and six weeks looks like: Once again, I have a staggering number of PNRs floating around in my iPhone and one hell of a lot of ground to cover over the next month and a … Continue reading →

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Sked changes

Posted on 2 September, 2011 by Mike

United Airlines has killed my favorite flight. This was the flight formerly known as UAL055, the afternoon flight from San Francisco to Kailua-Kona. It worked on so many different levels: it allowed for connections from their afternoon departure from Victoria, … Continue reading →

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Utilization update

Posted on 19 July, 2011 by Mike

I somehow missed this when it got posted last month, but for future reference, on the subject of Air Canada’s aircraft utilization for the W11 schedule: AC is leasing two ex-HA 763s, one enters service on YYZ-DUB next week, the … Continue reading →

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Picture time

Posted on 29 May, 2011 by Mike

I am, as the Twitter feed has suggested for a couple of days, back from Japan. (Some of you had no idea I was even over there! Which lead to one of the funniest Foursquare checkins I’ve ever had!) A … Continue reading →

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Is the future here yet?

Posted on 15 May, 2011 by Mike

I’m currently sitting in the World’s Tiniest Laundromat on Karasuma-dori in Kyoto, waiting for the wash and dry cycle of the giant incomprehensible machines to complete. This is an interesting down time for us; laundry day while traveling is generally … Continue reading →

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Pat down

Posted on 15 April, 2011 by Mike

I’d been lucky in the six-ish months since the Tray Stacking AgencyTransportation Security Agency introduced the Freedom Frisk enhanced pat down procedure for air travelers to, from, and within the United States. Not once in my travels had I been … Continue reading →

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My big fat scandal

Posted on 16 February, 2011 by Mike

The Economist, Tipping Point: Removing the rot from the sport of emperors: Bout-rigging has been alleged for decades. Retired wrestlers occasionally admit it. In 1996 two former wrestlers about to go public with evidence died of a rare respiratory illness … Continue reading →

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That’s one hell of a terminal change

Posted on 2 November, 2010 by Mike

I’m in the process of hunting for a cheap way to get 2,080 miles on some combination of Star Alliance carriers before the end of the year, having fallen short of the magical requalification threshold by that much. (This is … Continue reading →

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