The last several weeks have given me the ultra-rare opportunity to sample the two competing direct flights between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur in Business Class; in both cases completely unexpected. With Malaysia Airlines, I was initially billed to enjoy Oman
Owing to the fantastic coma-like sleep (likely alcohol induced) I had in British Airways’ ageing Club World business class cabin last year to Dublin, I elected to repeat the cycle again this year for my yearly crusade back to Dublin.
For my annual pilgrimage home this year (all but a distant memory now), I had two key goals in mind; have the most comfortable possible journey, and score as many BA miles as I could in advance of the renewal
With the marathon flight from Kuala Lumpur to London clocking in at around 13 hours, I was delighted to find myself amongst the elite in Club World, BA’s business class proposition. As you know, I’m far more of a World Traveller
On my return journey back from a fantastic week in Germany, I flew via London Heathrow to rack up a few extra points and miles with British Airways. The journey took me from Stuttgart to London Heathrow, to the First
It’s been roughly a year since I was last back in my ‘native’ home of Dublin, Ireland, which in itself was a rush job of about 5 days to be best man at my friends’ wedding. So this year I
Though my experience to date of British Airways hasn’t always been favourable (I won’t link to them, but the posts can still mostly be found – to summarise; drunk racist passenger on one occasion, and staid, old aircraft on the
The individual aspects of how a national airline is run seems to me to be something that is carefully examined and analysed, more than perhaps any other state or semi-state company, by large swathes of self-appointed armchair experts, myself included. Having
Travel blogging is a curious beast and with the notable exception of a few high-quality comedies that I enjoy reading from time to time, one of the mistakes – by virtue of sponsorships I presume – I feel my fellow
It’s been an unusual week for those of us, like myself, who’ve always viewed carriers like British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France, KLM and their ilk as the ‘untouchables’ of European aviation and the standard-setters by which others, historically speaking, should