Category: Air Travel
Post-pandemic airfares have been obstinately high this year due to increased demand and limited supply. Travelers have been willing to pay for these astronomical prices just so they can get away after being stuck at home for 2 years. Premium economy prices on transpacific flights have now doubled. Round trip business class flights now cost … Continue reading EVA Air Royal Laurel
After two months of gallivanting with friends & family, and chasing hotel status, we are finally back to our routine. Got my Hyatt status! Routine entails running for me, and BJJ for Joe. Back to enjoying this view after my runs. Also back on the menu is our oatmeal cleanse. Two months of overindulgence is … Continue reading Back To Regular Programming…For Now
Flight travel time from the US west coast to East Africa usually takes about a day. Given there are no nonstop flights, travelers must layover in Europe, Türkiye, or the Middle East. Out of all carriers Qatar Air offers the shortest travel time, clocking in at 23 hours. Imagine being seated in economy for that … Continue reading Qatar Q Suites
It’s been 2 and a half months since we last traveled. Joe’s perfectly fine staying at home, but I’m getting restless. So, I jumped at the very first chance to fly out to Miami to meet up with Juin without my better half. With the luxury of time, I opted to not fly direct to … Continue reading Transcon Travel
This is possibly the last time where air travel will be enjoyable for us. Once the US opens up on Nov. 8th, the days of empty flights will be over. Check-in in Malaga was as close to a disaster as it could get. We waited an hour and a half standing in line to check-in, … Continue reading Back Stateside
The last time I flew on a near empty plane was almost a year ago when I flew to Taiwan. On our most recent trip to Morocco in April, we found ourselves on jammed packed flights. Today, our Air France flight experience is more aligned with traveling during the earlier days of the pandemic. The … Continue reading Post Vaccine Pandemic Travel – Europe Edition
Airfare prices are cracking again. With uncertainty associated with the Delta variant, businesses are grounding their sales force this fall. Business travelers are canceling their flights, and fares for the rest of us are dropping like a ton of bricks. We managed to rebook our October one-way NYC to LAX flight for a fraction of … Continue reading Delta Uncertainty
Going home! It’s been a while since we’ve traveled to a place where we’re happy to be going home. There’s nothing wrong with Morocco, but we think Turkey ruined it for us. Our trip to Turkey was absolutely one of the best (a close second after Botswana and Tanzania), and after having just been there … Continue reading Traveling Back To The US
Our Morocco trip was booked back in late 2019 for April 2020. With the pandemic, the trip was postponed. Since this trip was booked pre-retirement, the duration of the trip was only for a week, which is short by today’s standards. Morocco is open to US travelers, albeit with restrictions. First, we had to test … Continue reading Pandemic Travel – Africa Edition
The first leg of our trip to Morocco involved flying domestically from the West Coast (LAX) to the East Coast (JFK), since Royal Air Maroc had cut out all direct flights to Morocco except for the JFK route. Domestic travel is nothing like international travel. The crowds! Everyone, minus the grandmother, is traveling! Had we … Continue reading LAX to JFK Flight
So it appears that I’m one of the few insane people flying into Covid territory that is known as California. Most people want to fly into Taiwan, not out these days, especially given that Chinese Lunar New Year is coming up in 3 weeks. As for me, I have a husband home alone whom I’d … Continue reading Flying Back to the US
This time being back in Asia feels like being back home, even though home for me has always been in the US for the last 30 years. It hasn’t always been this way. I used to feel a sense of relief when back in the US after a trip overseas. The cumulative unfortunate events in … Continue reading Arriving in Taiwan
It appears all Asia-bound flights leave LAX in the late evenings, which would explain the larger crowd compared to when we flew out to Turkey 3 months ago. Yes, this is a “larger” crowd, which pales in comparison to the pre-Thanksgiving domestic crowd. The key to pandemic traveling is to know when the peak days … Continue reading Pandemic Travel – Asian Edition
There is definitely a different vibe while traveling during a pandemic. First of all, a US passport no longer confers one with the freedom to travel anywhere anymore. Thanks to this country’s botched response to COVID, Americans have had doors shut in our faces for valid reasons. Now, a US passport is about as good … Continue reading International Travel During Pandemic Era
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