Cebu Pacific Airlines: Review
Cebu Pacific is a perfectly fine way to fly. Its one of two budget airlines serving the Philippines, the other being Zest Air. For domestic transport to the beautiful Islands around Palawan and the Calamiain Island chain it can't be beat, it has the widest reach and the most flights and is priced just right. … Read more
Emirates Airlines, You Rock…..British Airways YOU SUCK.
Take your points and SHOVE them British Airways I am done. A loyalty scheme is supposed to engender loyalty. You spend all your money with one airline and you get treated better than if you spread it around. But the deal with BA is broken. The special treatment is only face value, they use loyalty … Read more
The Idiots Guide to Budget Airline Travel
Today's Airport experience is a goddam sonofabitch for everyone, no matter what class you travel. Its compounded though by most travellers making the same errors all the time and holding the whole security/ check in process up. Its even further compounded by the budget airline industry being a total gang of bastards about the whole … Read more
Airport Review: Manila Airport, Philippines
Manila airport is one of those 1960s Asian airports probably built with American aid to welcome the GIs on R & R from Vietnam. It feels very of that time, faded and tired. However it is also a remarkably friendly and easy airport to navigate. Check-in was swift and efficient in Terminal 2 and you … Read more
Review: Emirates Airlines, Business Class Flight & Dubai Lounge
Both of us have flown Emirates quite often recently, in particular because we have been flitting to Brazil a lot for work, but mostly because its better value and far superior to the rotten British Airways service. From Singapore its a good 36 hour haul with a stopover in Dubai, but preferable to the equidistant … Read more
Review: British Airways First Class Lounge Heathrow
Terminal 5 is a great improvement to Heathrow. In spite of its teething problems it has actually managed to drag a part of the airport into a more recent decade, although it still lags behind many of the Asian Airports. All long haul British airways traffic leaves from here, which makes a nice break from … Read more
British Airways: A List of Dreadful Things British Airways Has Done to Me
British Airways: I am tied to you, tied by binds that would put Prometheus’ jailer to shame. I have spent many hours on your beaten up planes, seated beside the toilet or the galley in the aisle traversing the globe. As a result I have gold status, and for what its worth would like to … Read more
Philippine Airlines Review
Mr. Murphy is a man for research, the day before we headed off to Manila on Philippine Airlines, he sent me an email containing the following points gleaned from various news/government websites. Philippine Airlines is not allowed to operate in European Airspace as its not considered safe You are very likely to get kidnapped in … Read more
