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Toronto & frozen Niagara Falls

Pic: Partially frozen Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls (Feb 2015) Weekend trips can be so awesome! Friday morning, I flew Jet Airways from Brussels to Toronto for the weekend. Very reasonable travel times of 8h 45min for the outbound flight and only 6h 16m…

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Qantas A380 First Class: London to Melbourne

Pic: British Airways Galleries First at Heathrow Terminal 3 For my year end trip to Australia, I used 150K US Airways Dividend Miles which I bought for $1702 (€1288). I managed to buy these miles at 1.1 dollar cents during their fabulous…

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New Year’s Eve in Sydney

Pic: Sydney New Year’s Eve = seven tonnes of Fireworks! (Dec 2014) After celebrating New Year’s Eve on Times Square in New York and at the Big Ben in London, Sydney was next. I flew Qantas First Class from London to Melbourne via…

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Etihad A380: First Class Apartment for €17 ($21)

Thanks to my Etihad Guest Gold status and a Double Miles offer, my Air Berlin & Etihad Business Class trip to Jakarta earned me an amazing 46,050 Etihad Guest miles! This included 34.402 Guest Tier Miles which is only 5598 miles short of requalification for the…

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Air Berlin & Etihad Business Class: Jakarta via Abu Dhabi

Pic: Air Berlin A330 new Business Class IFE Screen (Nov 2014) Mid October, Air Berlin published a really cheap Business Class fare from Oslo, Norway to Jakarta, Indonesia. An opportunity I used to try their new Business Class and to visit Bali. The fare…

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