Trip to Tucson

American Airlines  had a pretty good fare ($225 IAD-DFW-TUS) running to Tucson so I decided to pull the trigger and book a  weekend trip back in January. This is was my first time actually visiting Tucson and I wasn’t exactly sure what I would do there.  I had remembered talking to an older lady on…

So What’s Next? Trips Planned for 2014

So now that I’ve gotten done with a year worth of domestic Travel in two months, time to focus on the Fun Stuff.  Transoceanic International travel. Most years I would not book a whole lot of travel really early in the year, but so far 2014 has been unusual.  First, a lot of airlines including…

Where have I been? So far 2014

So far 2014 has been a pretty Heavy Year of domestic flying.   Even as a veteran mileage run flyer.  This year has been unusually busy. We can thank Delta for its fare mistake bonanza from December 2013.   I managed to snag 4 trips.  Unfortunately three of them were to Oakland. The last fare…

My First British Airways Mileage Run!

British Airways 107 London Heathrow (LHR) – Dubai (DXB) 12/29/2013 Depart: 12:45PM Arrive: 11:35PM Duration: 6hr 18Mins Aircraft: Boeing 747-400 Seat: (Club World) So this was flight was part of my first ever trip on British Airways.  I paid just over $2300 and 40,000 Avios  for this Club World ticket round trip Dulles to Dubai,…

Why is TK Plane crazy?

So I’m plane crazy because I really enjoy flying.  Enough that I spent a great deal of my time and money flying not for work, but for fun. Now I’m not the craziest one out in the blogosphere,  but I do think I push the envelope of what normal people will do.  So after many…