Good morning, and welcome to today's community discussion thread! Today's posts will appear here throughout the day, but this thread is for going off-topic. Did you love/hate something about today's coverage? Are you tracking other news I missed? Or, do you just have a general question about rewards travel? This is the place for your wandering thoughts.
Today's posts on OMAAT:
- Amex Platinum Card Bonus: As High As 175K Points Welcome Offer (Check Yours)
- Military Member Calls Alaska Airlines Employee “Anti-Military” Over Denied Free Upgrade
- Atmos Global Concierge: Alaska Airlines’ New Invitation-Only Elite Status
- Frontier Airlines’ Unique First Class Now On Sale (No Food, Drinks, Or Recline)
- Lufthansa’s First Airbus A350-1000 Has Arrived: 299.5 Seats, Four Cabins, Munich Routes
- All Nippon Airways (ANA) New 777 First & Business Class: Which Routes Get Them?
- Airline Interline, Codeshare, Alliance, And Joint Venture Agreements Explained
- Plaza Premium Opening Hong Kong Arrivals Lounge… With Live Music?!
- Delta SkyMiles Gold Card Review: Solid Perks For Occasional Delta Flyers
- ATMA: Aman’s New Brand, Debuting With A 1,049-Foot Miami Tower
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Plaza Premium arrivals lounge HKG announced to open soon (late November). Some details on Plaza’s IG.
@sel_d Great catch, thank you! I'm intrigued by the way it's described... hah, post coming soon. Thank you!
@lucky hopefully it opens sooner rather than later. I will likely be there the last week in November.
@sel_d I've been wanting to check out the new CX F lounge, so maybe I should try to time the trip for December. If you do make it after opening, please report back!
Question for folks, probably not worth a blog post, but would appreciate some feedback here. As some will know, I only have one first class product in the world I haven't flown, which is Air Côte d'Ivoire. Do I just rip the band aid off and book it? The one-way fare from ABJ-CDG is around $6K, and I can't find anything cheaper, so if I'm missing something, please do let me know.
This of course pains me, but as a completionist, and given how close I am, I feel like I need to do it...
This was my last post on the topic, for what it's worth:
https://onemileatatime.com/news/air-cote-divoire-first-class/
@lucky Go for it. Now's the time. As the kids get older will just get harder to justify (not from a financial cost perspective - although that's not nothing - but from a spending time perspective).
@peter_ Appreciate the feedback! Maybe this first class is the world's best kept secret, though I'm going to be so sad if I drop this amount of cash and it's basically the same as the business class soft product, heh.
@lucky I mean, we know exactly what the hard product will be. Can't imagine this is going to be a Starlux situation where they're going to block the front restroom for you and provide a real elevated service, but hey, who knows. And if not you, who!
@lucky I don't think anyone here will tell you not to do it 🙂 I suppose you could "offset" some of the costs booking via Chase Travel and use some points, but not sure you'll do better than 1cpp overall.
@lucky ...and since I can't edit my previous comment, why don't you just book a mixed class roundtrip first / business, since it's pretty much the same price, and review both? Might as well!
Also, while the $6K for what is likely to be a rough experience sucks, presumably it can be a business write off since you are issuing a review on it...so that should at least help ease the sting a tiny bit.
