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9+ Business Class Award Seats Open On United’s Toughest-To-Get International Flights Through 12/6/21

by Gary Leff

Jan 07 2021

I’ve gone ahead and booked a couple more sets of 3 business class award roundtrips for later in 2021 thanks to United opening up award seats across the board on many of its toughest to get routes like Houston – Sydney and San Francisco – Singapore. There are even dates where you’ll find 9 or more business class award seats available.

Other open destinations include San Francisco – Bangalore, San Francisco – Tel Aviv, and Newark – Venice (albeit this last with only modest availability).

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13 Ways to Make Flying Economy More Enjoyable

by Gary Leff

airplane seats
Jan 03 2021

You can make flying economy more enjoyable. It doesn’t have to be the miserable experience most of us have come to expect if you know these 13 tricks. So let’s look forward to when everyone is traveling again and talk about staying comfortable on a long flight, when your class of service isn’t going to do it for you?

If you know these 13 things ahead of time you can make flying economy more enjoyable.

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Set To Expire, Bask Bank New Customer Bonus Extended – A Great Place To Park Cash

by Gary Leff

sydney opera house at sunset
Dec 29 2020

2020 has been a hard year, but it’s almost behind us. And I’m excited to start traveling again, I’ve been plotting out several trips for the summer and fall of 2021. I’m only booking my airfare with miles, though, because of how flexible that can be.

A Bask Savings Account is a great way to earn these miles, and it’s great that the new customer bonus offer has been extended.

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China Tells Flight Attendant To Wear Diapers Instead Of Using Lavatory On Risky Flights

by Gary Leff

lavatory
Dec 10 2020

The sixth edition of CAAC’s Technical Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Epidemics in Transport Airlines and Airports lays out the country’s plan to avoid spreading infection while managing inbound international traffic. Domestic travel has largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but strict limits are placed on international travel to avoid importing SARS-CoV-2 back into the country.

Wearing diapers and avoiding the lavatory are just one of many strategies – including masks, gloves, goggles, hair nets, and hazmat suits – that are recommended for crew on flights bringing people back from places where the virus is spreading. Planes have quarantine sections of the aircraft cordoned off for anyone who shoes symptoms of infection, in order to separate them from other passengers and crew.

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Thailand Now Allowing Tourists From The Whole World (Yes, Even The U.S.)

by Gary Leff

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Dec 09 2020

Thailand has managed the Covid-19 pandemic well. Despite identifying early cases outside of China at the start of the pandemic, the country hasn’t seen significant virus activity and 90% of cases have been asymptomatic.

The country has been among the most closed to tourism, like much of Asia, but they’re now offering special tourist visas to people from all over the world – there’s a process to jump through and quarantine on arrival, but it’s now possible for Americans to visit.

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I’m Not Your Mother, And This Plane’s Not Your Living Room

by Gary Leff

Dec 07 2020

When passengers see a messy cabin, they tend to leave it that way themselves and perhaps even in worse condition (Cf. lavatories). It’s the ‘broken windows theory’ of policing applied to an aircraft cabin. Slovenliness begets slovenliness. But the reverse is also true. Hold up your end, keep things looking respectable, and your fellow passengers are more likely to do so as well – and an airline’s employees and contractors will have a much easier time maintaining the plane for the people flying in your seat next, too.

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