We lucked out with Etihad Airways' new A350 in Business Class - having tried it, it's probably one of, if not, the top business cabins out there!
After an incredibly fantastic time in Hong Kong, where we were treated like royalty, it was time for the next part of the journey – a nightmar-ish 2-night stop from Hong Kong to Dusseldorf, before returning back to Malaysia. It’s been
It seems like only a few months ago that first-class dreamers like myself (i.e. folks who love the idea but are safe in the knowledge they’ll never have the funds to fly in first) were aghast at the sheer opulence
My relationship with the UAE’s national carrier has never been what you would call steady, and I feel like this hasn’t been entirely the fault of my often-grumpy outlook on things. My initial dealing with them was one of the
If, like myself, you’ve started trying to circumnavigate the tired old traditional ways of heading out towards Asia or Australia from Ireland which used to take us only very slightly east as far as London, Amsterdam or perhaps Frankfurt, before
Leaving off from last time, we were en-route to Abu Dhabi, somewhere between the main meal and the surprisingly acceptable pre-landing “keep you alive†wrap. The last time I had to wait a considerable amount of time in Abu Dhabi,
With the lingering and painful memories of trying to reach the airport at the crack of dawn a large number of times in the past few years and the – admittedly, comfortable – Aircoach journeys traipsing across the city while
It’s been well over a year since I’ve been doing any sort of serious travelling – so long in fact, that Hostelworld recently sent me an e-mail asking me (paraphrasing heavily) something along the lines of did I not like
Having recently got a heap of holiday leave approved for the end of the year, myself & Anna set about looking to book our flights – with Etihad naturally, what with me having thousands of frequent flyer miles with them.
So there’s been some talk in the papers lately (how old do I sound even writing this?) that Etihad, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier now owns a stake in Aer Lingus which puts it right up there with the big players