Holiday to Florida/Cruise in Dec 2014

Our first cruise together to the Caribbean. We head out to Miami, then on a 7 night cruise, and finally picked up a car and headed down to Key West. It was great fun.

A mighty view in Yellowstone National Park

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Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022: Day 1 – Amsterdam AMS to London LHR

I wandered up and down an empty concourse at Amsterdam and then headed back to Gate D18 to wait for boarding to commence. On the way back to Heathrow, I was back in my normal seat (01F). When I walked through the galley, the cabin crew did a double-take and immediately asked whether I was […]

Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022: Day 1 – London LHR to Amsterdam AMS

I arrived on the bus from POD parking into bus stop 28, just outside the lifts, which I took up to level 5 and departures. T5 didn’t appear to be too busy and within 3 or 4 mins I was standing outside The First Wing (TFW). I already had my two boarding cards for the […]

Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022: Day 1 – Home to London LHR

By Nige on January 21, 2022 at 8:24 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: LHR | London | Trips

Another trip that I am looking forward to immensely began with a relatively mundane drive to Heathrow. Left home just before midday and I had to take Vick’s car due to the missus needing to drive up to see her dad in Lichfield on Sat with her brother. Not a big deal to me, but […]

Covid requirements for masks onboard flights continue

Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022: Prep

By Nige on January 2, 2022 at 7:51 am
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Story: Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | AMS | British Airways | JFK | LAX | LHR | Los Angeles | Netherlands | New York | San Francisco | SFO | Trips | USA

Preparations Managed to sneak this trip in during Jan. It was originally a June booking that was impacted by flight cancellations, so at the start of Jan I decided to take advantage of my ability to rebook my trip avoiding all of the original restrictions: as long as there is flight availability. That allowed me […]

Tier Point Run to Las Vegas in Feb 2022

Enjoying getting back into flying after the awful last few years. Managed to sneak in another trip in Feb with Las Vegas in my sights.

Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022

By Nige on January 1, 2022 at 7:42 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to San Francisco in Jan 2022 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | AMS | Announcements | British Airways | JFK | LAX | LHR | Los Angeles | Netherlands | New York | San Francisco | SFO | Trips | USA

Managed to sneak in another trip in Jan. San Francisco is a great place to visit!

The entrance to the AA Flagship Lounge at New York JFK Terminal 8

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021: Summary

I’ve enjoyed my first significant trip in over 18 months: Using Verifly to manage all of the covid-related requirements worked really smoothly and airlines were happy to review the app during check in. Wearing masks all through my flights was a real chore. I experienced the new BA Club World suite for the first time […]

The view of the houses on final approach into New York JFK

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021: Day 7 – London LHR to Home

By Nige on November 17, 2021 at 9:17 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021 Category: Travel
Tags: LHR | London | Trips

Even though I emailed the valet team the previous day, my car wasn’t prepared for me at T5 M&G, so I was walked to where it had been stored. No apparent issue with the car considering the alarm went off on the day I dropped it and the window was reported as not being closed […]

The view of New York on final approach into JFK

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021: Day 6 – Photos

Photos from Day 6.

A view of business class with the new club suite on the BA flight back to London LHR

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021: Day 6 – New York JFK to London LHR

By Nige on November 16, 2021 at 8:04 pm
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Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021 Category: Travel
Tags: British Airways | JFK | LHR | London | New York | Trips | USA

When I got to T7, I checked in with BA who gave me new boarding passes. The AA boarding passes won’t work with TSA Pre-Check for some reason, even though the TSA Pre-Check isn’t much to talk about in T7. I’ve never understood why they don’t implement it properly. Security was a joke as usual, […]