We had arrived onto the plane and a short delay turned into a big one. We had missed our slot and there was an issue with a door that wasn’t closing properly which needed to be check out by Engineering. Once cleared, we took off about 90 minutes late. The plane was an Iberia A340-300… Read More Episode 2 – The first wide-body and the perfect airport hotel
The first part of the trip was, for me, heading back to London. As usual, MummyAirmiles is writing in italics. As readers will know, MummyAirmiles is joining up with MisterAirmiles on a few days’ jaunt round Europe, experiencing different planes and their various versions of business class travel. Bring a retired lady of leisure and… Read More Episode 1 – Afternoon tea over the Irish Sea
The last time I went on holiday with my Mum was August 2007. Newly graduated, and therefore penniless, with my girlfriend being much braver than I was and travelling off to teach in Hong Kong for a year, I went to Rome for a few days with Mum. She paid; I spoke. It was a… Read More MummyAirmiles joins me on a wide-bodied jet tour of Europe
Aberdeen Airport has had a lot of investment recently, which may now be slightly redundant with the fall in oil prices, but that is a different story. Earlier this spring I needed to be in the north of Scotland for the weekend and wanted to leave after work on the Friday. I took the last… Read More Hotel at Aberdeen takes the Crowne
I wrote about my last IHG Accelerate promotion here. I didn’t do well, as I didn’t read the T&Cs carefully enough. It boiled down to a points and cash night tracking for that part, but not as one of my total nights stayed, meaning I missed out on the completion bonus. It wasn’t too serious… Read More Accelerating to another bonus with IHG
Irregular operations occur when things go wrong for whatever reason. In my case, it was the cancellation of my flight back from Nice. A planned air traffic control strike meant that BA were asked to reduce some of their services the day before, which meant us. I got a text and email at about 1600… Read More When things don’t go to plan – my first experience of IRROPS
