This is an interesting development, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Booking Aeroflot with SkyMiles has always been complicated (though possibly not as complicated as visiting the ticket office in Minsk). Aeroflot gives painfully little award…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my fascination with Rossiya Airlines, which operates ex-Transaero 777s on flights between Moscow and Vladivostok. I won't recap everything here, though if you haven't read the previous posts, check them out: -- Swoon:…
In May I wrote about my fascination with S7 Airlines, which is a oneworld airline based in Russia. They're almost like a mini Russian Emirates, in the sense that they use Novosibirsk as a hub to connect people between Asia and Europe. Okay, their 737s…
With increasing tension between the US and Russia, it looks like Aeroflot may soon stop flying to the US. At least that's the threat. Aeroflot is Russia's largest airline, and presently flies to Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Washington DC. They're…
I'm living for Aeroflot lately. Every time I see one of their press releases I'm like: Last week I wrote about how Aeroflot published a press release indicating that they're planning to recover costs from a passenger who disrupted a flight due to “petty…
I'm not sure how I missed this story initially, but thanks to @AirlineFlyer for Tweeting about it, as it's quite something. It's of course frustrating when a passenger causes a disturbance on a flight that leads to a delay. It wastes the time of all…
There are quite a few airports throughout the world that allow you to transit without a visa. As a matter of fact, a vast majority of countries do as long as you remain in the sterile transit area. This works just fine 99% of the time, but it gets tricky…
One of my big focuses of 2016 was reviewing as many new airlines as possible. Given that I've flown most of the world's best first class products, this came primarily in the form of trying more business class products. Furthermore, with so many airlines…
I was immediately impressed upon boarding to find a "proper" business class cabin. Business class on a vast majority of airlines operating within Europe is simply economy with a blocked middle seat, so this was a huge upgrade over that. Aeroflot's 737s…
We arrived from Los Angeles at around 3:10PM, and found ourselves in a long hallway. At the end of the hall you could either turn left towards immigration or right towards international transfers. Since we were connecting to Serbia, we turned right.…
Our flight from Los Angeles to Moscow was departing shortly before 5PM, so we arrived at the airport at around 3PM. I was very pleasantly surprised to find a deserted Tom Bradley International Terminal. The terminal is usually packed around noon and…
My biggest blog goal for the year has been to review as many new premium cabin airline products as possible. While I started off the year with what I thought was an aspirational list at the time, I've found reviewing new airlines to be so fun that I…
As I wrote about yesterday, my Aeroflot flight from Los Angeles to Moscow was such a pleasant surprise. The flight attendants were friendly and the food was delicious. I came in with very low expectations, and left with a very favorable impression. From…
Good morning from Moscow! Tiffany and I have spent the past 12 hours in Aeroflot’s 777 business class, flying between Los Angeles and Moscow. As usual I’ll share my initial impressions below, though expect a much more detailed trip report soon. I was…
My obsession this year has been reviewing new airlines, and it's something I've found to be indescribably enjoyable. We all have weird hobbies, and trying new airlines has become my latest obsession. I've reviewed a lot of new airlines so far this year,…
A couple of weeks back Delta announced some positive changes to the SkyMiles program, including that they've added more partner airlines to their online award search tool. This is great news, given how challenging it can be to ticket SkyMiles awards…
The first minute of that is just... wow:
