Amsterdam (sort of) January 2026

I was due to fly with my son to Amsterdam on 6th Jan 2026. We were leaving from Birmingham for out first flight to Paris at 10:25 a.m. Out itinerary was BHX-CDG followed by CDG-AMS arriving mid afternoon. We were due to travel in European Business class with Air France. I’d booked tickets using Virgin […]

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Birmingham to Krakow – FB Gold #1

This trip back in April 2025 was the first one after I decided to chase Flying Blue Gold Status. This is equivalent in the Sky Team Alliance to SkyTeam Elite Plus so gives benefits on Delta Virgin SAS Vietnam Airlines as well as of course AirFrance and KLM. I hope you enjoy the video and please […]

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Amsterdam – First trip of 2026

I originally intended to buy a flight to Hamburg for my son, but it never got sorted out and he decided he would like to come on a trip with me instead. Looking around I coould get a good deal on business class flights and there was one available BHX-CXG-AMS so 2 flights in one. […]

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All the flights I took in 2025

I’ve been logging my flights using myFlightRadar24 so here are the stats for 2025. I’m not pleased about the 8.6 Tonnes of CO2 but in my defence I did pay SAF surcharges on at least half of these flights, which should reduce the total to about half of this. It was a pretty amazing year […]

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