After nearly three years of no vacation travel, Cathy and I are finally embarking on a four-and-a-half-month vacation.

I admit to being an informed and picky airline client. Having never flown on Hawaiian Airlines, I decided it might be worth making a short connection from Vancouver to Seattle to experience this wide-body A 330 operator as I always prefer wide-body aircraft over 737’s and A320’s.

A few years ago, British Airways reintroduced their short-haul business class product (Club Europe) on most mainline domestic flights within the United Kingdom. BA gushingly described the product as “Our feature-packed UK and European business class, a perfect combination of efficiency, convenien

For South Africans living in London the scramble to find flights back home for Christmas is a rite of passage. Typically there's a nearly overwhelming choice of options, direct, via Europe, via the Middle East and via East Africa.

Homeward bound: QR 1361 DUR to DOH via MPM (December 28, 2020) - depart 11:25, arrive MPM 12:15, depart MPM 13:45, arrive DOH 23:20

I had to fly to Winnipeg, Manitoba for business, during the pandemic. Here's how it went, and travellers take note: economy class had no food service and there was no coffee available past security in some airports.