Aussie Flyer

Qantas First Class Lounge - Sydney and Melbourne

2013-05-09T18:24:00.002+10:00

Over the past couple of days I have had another opportunity to visit the Qantas First Class lounges in both Sydney and Melbourne. As I have come to expect, both visits were spectacular. I just love these lounges and I think they are both definitely in the top 5 lounges on Earth! What makes them especially great is the terrific restaurant and great wine list. Here is a taste of whats on offer:

Facebook Page

2013-05-06T21:38:00.001+10:00

As of today I have setup a Facebook page. It was suggested to me by one of my YouTube subscribers and I thought, why not? So if you have Facebook and want to 'Like' my page then find it here: http://www.facebook.com/TheAussieFlyer I will endeavour to live update the page with some photos and thoughts as I pass through airports, and you will find links to my latest blog posts and YouTube

United BusinessFirst - Boeing 777-200ER : UA79 Newark to Tokyo Narita

2013-05-06T11:00:00.001+10:00

The recent merger of Continental and United Airlines has created a mega-carrier with over 700 aircraft in the mainline fleet and nearly 90,000 staff. It is an absolutely mammoth operation with a route network covering the entire globe. The airline has so many different aircraft types it is hard to keep up with what's on offer! For my recent trip from the New York area to Japan I booked a flight

American Airlines AA4462 Embraer ERJ-140 : Montreal to New York JFK

2013-04-29T12:40:00.002+10:00

The small regional jets that are so popular in North America never really became popular in Australia, so when I had the need to fly from Montreal to New York I jumped at the chance of sampling the Embraer ERJ-140 of American Airlines. I have flown on the Canadair CRJ's but never the little Embraer's and the ERJ140 model is quite rare and in fact AA are the only airline using them. They seat 44

Singapore Airlines Suites SQ346 - Singapore to Zurich

2013-03-27T05:21:00.001+11:00

It's already over 5 years since Singapore Airlines introduced the Airbus A380 back in 2007, but its taken this long for me to finally sample the premium cabins and write about it. Previously I've flown only in economy on the Singapore whalejet so I was very excited when the time finally came to try the suites. My journey had started in Myanmar and I'd flown in to Changi airport with about 7

Malaysia Airlines Business Class - Yangon to Kuala Lumpur MH741 : Boeing 737-800

2013-03-14T11:01:00.001+11:00

As part of my recent round the world trip I had a couple of sectors on Malaysia Airlines. Here is a report on my first. It was actually my first ever flight on the airline and my departure point was Yangon (or Rangoon if you like). If you have ever been to Yangon you will know that the taxi's tend to be rather old (there are some exceptions). I was in one of these old things when of course it

Sights of Yangon, Myanmar

2013-02-26T14:59:00.000+11:00

For those regulars on Flyertalk and other forums frequented by people like me I'm sure you all know just WHY I found myself in Yangon this past January. For the rest of you, let's just say I got a deal on flights that was too good to pass up. But besides that, I have always had Myanmar on my to do list so I was very excited to visit. It's a pity due to time limitations I could only visit the

Blog Design

2013-02-25T23:44:00.002+11:00

I am making some changes to the way the blog looks... From now on I will only show an introduction to the articles that I write on the main page of the blog. If you would like to continue reading then please follow the 'Read More' link. This way you can see a lot more of what I have been adding from the main page. I'm also making some cosmetic changes to the way the page looks and at this