This was a new one for me: a TP run to Estonia via Heathrow and Helsinki. This was better value than my normal TP runs to Hawaii, so I doubled up on the excitement by doing a nested TP run.
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Trips are jaunts that we have taken that are not considered holidays
By Nige
on May 21, 2024
at 9:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | LHR | London Heathrow | Trips
I jogged most of the way to Passport Control. A number of the Schengen gates along the way were very busy, but Passport Control was dead.
By Nige
on May 21, 2024
at 7:33 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: AGP | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Malaga | Trips
Malaga airport looked OK. Nothing special, but it had a Starbucks and a Giraffe restaurant, and that's just based on what I could see around Gate D42.
By Nige
on May 20, 2024
at 11:34 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: AGP | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | LHR | London Heathrow | Malaga | Trips
Photos from Day 7.
By Nige
on May 20, 2024
at 11:25 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: AGP | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Malaga | Trips
I had forgotten how nice the Platinum Wing is at Helsinki. That's the top Finnair lounge, located close to the 50+ gates in the non-Schengen area of the airport.
By Nige
on May 20, 2024
at 1:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | LHR | London Heathrow | Trips
I whizzed through to T5 Flight Connections and got on the first T3 bus. It stopped at T5B, but by that stage, it was a squeeze to get anyone else onboard.
By Nige
on May 19, 2024
at 11:02 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | British Airways | Hilton | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA
Photos from Day 6.
By Nige
on May 19, 2024
at 10:04 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: British Airways | JFK | LHR | London Heathrow | New York | Trips | USA
After arriving at the lounge complex at JFK T8, I made a conscious decision to check whether there were any decent window seats in the Soho lounge before defaulting to the Chelsea Lounge.
By Nige
on May 19, 2024
at 3:30 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Hilton | JFK | LAX | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA
On the way home today! It was a very early start, but I'd had a good amount of sleep in my comfy bed at the Hampton Inn & Suites.
By Nige
on May 18, 2024
at 11:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Los Angeles | Trips | USA
Photos from Day 5.
By Nige
on May 18, 2024
at 8:17 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Los Angeles | Trips | USA
Knowing that the clouds would lift in the afternoon, and having had disappointing views from the Hollywood sign yesterday, I wanted to climb up to the sign again. This time from a different starting point.
