REVIEW – JAL : First Class – Tokyo Haneda to London (B77W)
September 2, 2016
REVIEW – Plaza Premium Lounge, London Heathrow T2
September 9, 2016
- Part 1:
- Plaza Premium Lounge – London Heathrow Airport
- Part 2:
- Singapore Airlines: Business Class – London to Singpapore
- Part 3:
- Fairmont Singapore : Suite and Executive Lounge
- Part 4:
- Singapore Airlines : The Private Room – Singapore Changi Airport (Breakfast Service)
- Part 5:
- Singapore Airlines : First Class Suites – Singapore to Shanghai
- Part 6:
- Air China First Class Lounge – Shanghai Pudong Airport
- Part 7:
- Singapore Airlines: First Class – Shanghai to Singapore
- Part 8:
- Singapore Airlines : The Private Room – Singapore Changi Airport (Dinner Service)
- Part 9:
- Singapore Airlines First Class Lounge – Singapore Changi Airport
- Part 10:
- Singapore Airlines : Business Class – Singapore to Frankfurt
- Part 11:
- Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge : Frankfurt Airport
- Part 12:
- Plaza Premium Arrivals Lounge : London Heathrow
- Part 13:
- Conclusion
With a US Airways Round the World First Class redemption completed in a single week, I finally felt like a real #AVGeek. (Not to mention I’d done it with various HUCAs using only 100k miles and paying no fuel surcharges for BA First Class!) This is not the kind of thing that normal people do. Thankfully, we’re not normal people.
Still, I’ve never been one to rest on my laurels. The overwhelming feeling in situations such as these is that there’s always more that you can do, something else to push the envelope a little further.
Nobody leaves their mark on the World by simply following in the footsteps of others. I’m not the first person to do a Round the World trip in a week. Hell some people even do them in less than two days.
So, I had another trip planned, a trip which would begin three days after my return from the First Class Round the World.
My plan was to maintain my body clock on Asian time, whilst living and working in London. I would be visiting the gym at 4am and getting to sleep by 7pm (work permitting).
Having completed my RTW I was going to fly back to Asia, to see my girlfriend Kamara and her family in Shanghai. Kamara had stayed in Asia and would finish her RTW by flying home to London a couple of days after me.
Throughout the course of this extravagant long-weekend I’d be trying Singapore Airlines for the first, second, third and fourth time.
Not only would I be flying SQ four times but I was planning on sampling as many of their products as possible:
- The brand new Business class on the 77WN from LHR-SIN
- Suites on the A380 SIN-PVG
- First Class on the 77W PVG-SIN
- Business on the A380 (all J upper deck) SIN-FRA
- I would then fly Lufthansa Economy from FRA-LHR arriving into LHR at 10:40am and making it into the office for midday.
The First and Suites flights were booked with SQ miles earned via Amex Platinum and Gold cards. (Total for both flights: 85k miles + taxes)
The Business Class flights were booked with Avianca miles using tricks no longer available. (Total for both flights: 45k miles + taxes)
On to the First Section of the Trip Report!
