Air Travel

For more than a decade now, I have lived in Japan and for a good portion of that, I used an ANA credit card as my main card. Because of that, ANA Mileage Club is the frequent flyer program I tend to use the most. The program has some obvious downsides like not allowing the […]

DragonPass and LoungeKey are, together with Priority Pass, some of the most popular airport lounge membership programs in the world. They both provide airport lounge access regardless of the class of travel or airline one is flying on – a very welcome perk for those who often travel in economy class without an airline status.

Being one of the two largest airlines in Japan, JAL operates a network of lounges within the country available to both domestic and international passengers. It also operates some lounges in other countries and, where its own lounges are not available, provides access to other oneworld and third-party contract lounges. Unlike most other airlines, JAL

While you can, of course, earn and spend ANA Mileage Club miles on flights operated by ANA, the airline also partners with dozens of other airlines. Additionally, there are also a number of transfer partners that allow you to convert their points into ANA miles. Continue reading to find out all you need to know

SkyTeam, like Star Alliance and oneworld, offers frequent travelers on its member airlines alliance-wide statuses. The alliance has two such statuses – Elite and Elite Plus. In this article, I will take a close look at the latter which is harder to earn but also offers more benefits including airport lounge access compared to the former. Continue

SkyTeam has, like Star Alliance, two levels of alliance status: Elite and Elite Plus. While Elite is the lower level of the two, it offers some perks that the other two major alliances do not offer to their lowest-tier frequent flyer status holders. The most notable of those is extra baggage allowance. Continue reading this

Like most major airlines, ANA operates a network of lounges at its major hubs and at other airports, it typically offers lounge access in the form of another Star Alliance member airline’s lounge or a third-party contract lounge. The airline operates lounges for both domestic and international passengers. The one thing that makes ANA’s lounge

Emirates only operates two aircraft types at this point – Airbus A380 and Boeing 777. Having received over 100 A380s from Airbus – and with most of them still being active – it is the world’s largest operator of the type. As such, it’s no surprise that the Emirates A380 can be seen on dozens

One of the best ways to access airport lounges is using airport memberships. Two of the best-known ones are Priority Pass and LoungeKey, both run by the Collinson Group which is also behind Lounge Pass. At their core, the two programs are nearly the same. That said, while the former is a standalone program, the