Learning to Fly With Francis: Maintaining Currency

I’m still convinced that KBFI has the best runway view in the US. Photo by Adam Kephart This is a continuation of my multi-part series on learning to fly. You can read the whole Fly With Francis series here. It’s been a good while since I’ve done a Learning to Fly post. Since the last time,…

Singapore Airlines’ Upper-Deck A380 Business Class, Melbourne to Singapore

Singapore Airlines knows what it’s doing. No airline is perfect, but Singapore earns its status as a fan favorite for frequent fliers. Flying one of their long-haul premium cabins has been one of my AvGeek dreams for a while. So when I snagged a lucky award ticket during a trip to Asia/Australia — and on…

Indigo’s female passenger seat indicator!

Indigo makes it to CNN with its option to let female passengers know which all seats are taken by other female passengers. I first saw this in a tweet by Khabri Lal. Image is taken from the tweet Below is what I have understood from the news #1 The option to see which seat is…

WizzAir India launch: expectations, initial thoughts

WizzAir is a popular low cost airline in Europe. I’ve flown this airline from Athens to Budapest in 2023, Athens to Tirana in 2024. WizzAir flies to Middle East from Europe, so we do get cheap flights to Athens and Budapest from Abu Dabhi. It was possible to fly to Europe from India for about…

Kochi to Da Nang, Vietnam- 15k return, Aug 2024

Cheap tickets are available for Vietnam on VietJet Air COK-DAD, 15-16k return BOM-DAD, 17-18k return August is off season for Vietnam. Expect fair bit of rain- this is the main reason why tickets are cheap. You can check for other destinations . Vietjet is decent low cost airline based on Vietnam and they are operating flights…