Day 2 We woke reasonably early (before 9) the next morning so we made it down to breakfast. We had paid for breakfast, though no-one ever questioned us or seated us in any of the three days we were there. It’s a fairly large buffet on the ground floor and always had lots of diners […]
Continue Reading →A few days in Mallorca
Flyer Talk Thread We set out from BHX as usual on the early train which gets in to BHI rail station around 6:20. Usually we can get through security pretty quickly but today it’s rammed. No worries Jet2 has a separate security of its own in Area A. It’s boarded up and closed due to […]
Continue Reading →My first trip with SAS
Trip report #001Flyer Talk Thread It’s November 28th 2025 and I have been trying to calculate the XP I need to progress to Platinum. My Flying Blue Gold lasts until the end of May and I have re-qualified but for another 29XP I can upgrade to Platinum. I’d then have 2 years as STE+. I […]
Continue Reading →Playlist Airline Reviews
I’ve been spending some time over on You Tube the last few weeks.If you haven’t been there yet please do, its organised a lot better now. I’ve been trying to get ahead before I go on a not so premium trip. Don’t forget to like and subscribe! However the BEST thing you can do is […]
Continue Reading →Tracking Flying Blue Status
Until about 3 weeks ago I was tracking all my flight status and XP through scraps of paper and some notes in a notebook. I didn’t *really* understand how efficient my Flying Blue status qualification was or how Id benefit from it. Then while I was searching something about the nuances of qualification I got […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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. […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Helsinki (part1)
In October 2025 I decided to cancel our USA trip to Cancun/USA we had booked for March 2026. This had become quite a complicated trip, which started by me chasing a business class fare from MAD-CUN for 119k Flying Blue miles and €125, for 2 people! I saw this and jumped at it without realising […]
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