Tag: flight
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“That extra round is free of charge”
LH2075 from HAM to MUC This seems to be the motto of my attempt to fly to Tokyo… Today is already the second time for me trying to do just that, and now right before touching down in Munich, strong winds hit the airplane from the side, making it unstable to land. So the captain…
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Business travel to Dubai: Hand luggage at Emirates, border control fast track in DXB
writing on EK060, from HAM to DXB Although my company says I’m going to a high-risk country, I have been feeling pretty safe, even when I took a taxi (as a single traveling woman) in the middle of the night, because I was arriving on an international flight. Travelling with hand luggage and a chance…
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How to use a layover of 9h in EWR
writing on UA1005 from LIM to EWR & UA864 from EWR to HAM On our way from South America back to Germany it is inevitable to not have two consecutive red-eyes when picking the airline of choice, United. As you can tell, the time in between must be quite long and for us, it’s New…
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Strike in the Cusco region – Streik und andere Kleinigkeiten
>> deutscher Artikel unten Day 28 – 1h by foot from Qorikancha to the airport After a couple of very relaxing days at Tambo del Inka hotel in Urubamba, we switched hotels once again, a day earlier than planned. So we returned to Cusco yesterday, although our flight is only scheduled for today. The hotel…
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Lounge hopping in the USA
Day 7 – UA355 from EWR to IAH & UA1035 from IAH to UIO Off we go to the airport. Both at Newark, New Jersey (EWR) and Houston, Texas (IAH) some of the former United Club lounges, available for Star Alliance guests, go through a renovation program to become United Polaris lounges. I was at…
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The roadtrip begins
Day 1 – UA865 from HAM to EWR, 6387 km (comments in Italic by Daniel) A 09:00 am flight should feel like luxury when you usually have to be up at five to catch your plane. This morning, taking the first of this seasonal service’s flight to Newark, it is a bit nerve-wrecking instead. They…
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Let’s take a boat to Tonlé Sap and visit the Floating Village in Cambodia
Today was all about the Floating Village. Our guide picked us up at 09:00 am sharp and with his tuk-tuk we passed a small, calm river, little villages with humble-looking houses, some of them destroyed with staircases being the only evidence of their mere existence. The road soon became an off-road adventure track, but the…