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My return to North America was on Singapore Airlines Business Class on their newest Airbus 350-900. Much like my flight into Singapore, the flight had many highs and lows. The highs included a great food and beverage list, world class service and great entertainment. Whereas, the low points included a very cumbersome and dated seat, along with ergonomics that were just simply challenging and puzzling. Review: Singapore Airlines Business Class A350-900, Los… Read More

Our departing flight on Singapore Airlines from Singapore afforded us access to Singapore Airlines’ flagship business class lounge at Singapore’s Changi International Airport. With a number of lounges available to it’s travellers, Singapore Airlines offers its best business class lounge offering with this Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge. Our visit to the Singapore Airlines SilverKris lounge allowed us to explore its wonderful features, which includes an extensive buffet, a terrific cocktail list, and… Read More

With the Ko Samui – Thailand airport offering a duopoly choice between Bangkok Airways and fly Scoot Airways operated by Singapore Airlines, we ended up flying Bangkok Airways Singapore to Ko Samui return. We would experience a mostly old school no nonsense flight experience, that included complementary seat selection, a free meal with wine, and free checked baggage. Read on to see how her experience was on “Asia’s Boutique Airline“. Review: Bangkok… Read More

Bangkok airways is described as “Asia’s boutique airline”. As an independent carrier that’s not attached to any international airline alliance, we would get our opportunity to fly them for the first time on our flights to and from Ko Samui, Thailand. Bangkok Airways operates a business lounge network called the Blue Ribbon Lounge. Our experience would allow us to test out the Blue Ribbon lounge courtesy of Priority Pass at their departing… Read More

With the Ko Samui – Thailand airport offering a duopoly choice between Bangkok Airways and fly Scoot Airways operated by Singapore Airlines, we ended up flying Bangkok Airways Singapore to Ko Samui. We would experience a mostly old school no nonsense flight experience, that included complementary seat selection, a free meal with wine, and free checked baggage. Read on to see how her experience was on “Asia’s Boutique Airline“. Review: Bangkok Airways… Read More

The Plaza Premium Lounge network operates over sixty lounges worldwide. The Plaza Premium Lounges typically offer a consistent lounge experience with a broad food presentation, even when visiting outside of regular meal hours. Today’s travel took me through the Plaza Premium Lounge Singapore in Changi International Airport Terminal One. I would find a pretty reasonable and nice looking Plaza Premium Lounge with outdoor daylight use along with excellent regional food and beverage…. Read More

The Singapore Changi International Airport recently opened The Jewel. The Jewel is a large shopping mall immediately attached to the Singapore Changi International Airport that is anchored by a large waterfall in a central atrium. The Jewel is publicly accessible and you do not need to be a ticketed traveller in order to visit. Along with new retail space, The Jewel offers the Changi Lounge. The Changi Lounge located in the public… Read More

Our flight from the United States to Singapore was on Singapore Airlines A350–1000 aircraft in their business class cabin. Our flight was marked with many highs but also some interesting and notable lows. The service was excellent, as was the food and onboard wine program. On the low side, the business class seat was a little bit cumbersome, with some odd angles required for relaxing or sleeping. It’s also inconveniently designed t… Read More

Every now and then, we get a launch of a route that we are really excited about. Air Canada has just announced that they will re-launching their Vancouver to Singapore service for April 4, 2023. This service will link to large Star Alliance hubs belonging to Air Canada and Singapore Airlines in both Vancouver, Canada and Singapore; providing a great deal of connecting traffic between the two cities. Read on to see… Read More

Our return flights on Japan Airlines were ticketed courtesy of AAdvantage Miles at 50,000 miles for business class one way. These miles started off life as Canadian RBC Visa Avion Credit Card points and were later converted to AAdvantage points. Truth be told, I had a whole stack sitting there left over from a joint account with the previous administration that had been sitting idle for about 10 years while I was… Read More

After a fantastic 2 week holiday in the heat of South East Asia, it was sadly time to head home. After a 4:45 AM wake up, we headed to the Singapore Changi Airport. There were plenty of Uber cars available coming from the Orchard Road district area at 5:45 AM. Jerry collected us in a nice black Mercedes E Class for our 18 minute ride up the PIE expressway to the Changi… Read More

KLM World Business Class is a carrier that has alluded us for quite a number of years. When we saw that they offered a fifth freedom flight between Bali and Singapore at a discounted price, we jumped all over it. Instead of travelling on a low cost carrier in a narrow body aircraft, we got a wide body plane that had full service. Please read on to see how we fared… Review:… Read More