I just ticketed ANA first class awards for Ford and me to Japan for next year, and this is easily my best award redemption in quite a while, as I paid just 92,500 Amex points per person, plus taxes and fees. I wanted to share my experience with the booking…
Earlier I wrote about how Amex is offering a 30% bonus when you transfer Membership Rewards points to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles. In general Flying Club is one of my least favorite airline programs. Their redemption rates for travel on their own…
Japan has an excellent national train network which is efficient, extremely punctual and comfortable to use. It can also be extremely expensive. While travelling between major cities like Tokyo and Osaka the train network may be a no-brainer (albeit…
This is cool. The biggest news for Japanese carrier ANA so far this year has been the details of their three 'Flying Honu' Airbus A380s, which will exclusively fly between Tokyo and Honolulu. All three will feature traditional hard products, but will…
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is the only remaining airline that has the A380 on order but hasn't yet taken delivery of a single one of the planes. ANA only placed the order for the A380 in late 2015, and they really only did so under pressure, as Skymark…
Yesterday I wrote about Tuesday's ANA flight 175 from Los Angeles to Tokyo Narita, which ended up turning around roughly four hours after departure, meaning that the plane landed in Los Angeles about eight hours after it departed. Chrissy Teigen was…
Yesterday's ANA flight 175 from Los Angeles to Tokyo Narita ended up turning around about four hours after takeoff. The plane left Los Angeles at 11:36AM PT, and returned at 7:32PM PT. The only information we have directly from ANA is this statement,…
My first ever award flight on Etihad was booked through ANA Mileage Club. This was back in 2011, when I flew roundtrip from New York to Abu Dhabi in Etihad first class for 140,000 ANA miles. At the time that was one of the only practical ways to redeem…
This past Saturday ANA had a really good fare for business class tickets from Vancouver to Sydney in which you could fly round-trip for right around $700. The deal only lasted for a few hours, so we didn't have a chance to cover it here on OMAAT. I was…
Los Angeles to Tokyo is already a very busy market, with 8x daily flights, operated by American (2x daily), ANA (2x daily), Delta (1x daily), Japan Airlines (1x daily), Singapore (1x daily), and United (1x daily). It looks like this market is now getting…
Since mid-April, the US Amex Membership Rewards program has been offering a 30% bonus on points transfers to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. This offer is available through Monday, May 22, 2017, meaning you have only a couple of days left to take advantage…
Why are people so pathetic? Yesterday's ANA flight #6 from Tokyo Narita to Los Angeles departed over 90 minutes late because a fight broke out between two passengers on the plane. Here's video footage of the fight that broke out: The Twitter user who…
After several years of no new orders for the A380, Airbus finally got some life back into the program when they ended 2015 with an announcement that All Nippon Airways will be purchasing three A380 aircraft. I suspect ANA was somewhat strong-armed into…
All Nippon Airways has an article that's a paid advertisement on CNBC entitled "The 3-3-3 Challenge: How a frequent flyer networks from Asia to the U.S." In general ANA's approach to this "article" is smart, as a paid advertisement is much more interesting…
In January of this year I wrote about how Japanese airline ANA announced that they'll be launching flights between Tokyo and Mexico City as of the second half of this year. For whatever reason that timeline didn't seem to stick. The good news is that…
Shortly after midnight yesterday we departed Tokyo Haneda for Los Angeles in ANA's 777-300ER first class. This was after our flight from Hanoi to Tokyo in ANA business class. As usual I'll have a much more detailed trip report shortly, but in the meantime…
Hello from Tokyo Haneda! We just flew from Hanoi to Tokyo in ANA's longhaul 787 business class product. While ANA has 787s configured for shorthaul flying, we lucked out by getting a gorgeous longhaul 787-9 for this short 4hr20min flight. I'm trying…
I'm someone who really values inflight wifi, though even among airlines that offer it, there's huge variance in terms of pricing and quality. Generally my preference is when airlines offer a wifi plan without data caps that you have to pay for. Why?…
After several years of no new orders for the A380, Airbus finally got some life back into the program when they ended last year with an announcement that All Nippon Airways will be purchasing three A380 aircraft. I suspect ANA was somewhat strong-armed…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the next five trips I have booked. Since then I've already taken two of those, which means I still have three to go. As much as I'm excited about the upcoming trips, I'm also pretty exhausted at this point. Fortunately…
Japanese hospitality is arguably the most distinctive in the world, and it's hard not to fall in love with the people. Japan is one of the few countries where people consistently take pride in what they do, regardless of the level of work they're performing.…
