In February 2000, hotel rates were suppressed and I took the chance to book a night at a runway-facing room at the Crowne Plaza connected to Terminal 3.
A bit sentimental about this flight as Lufthansa will retire the A340-600 in 2026, and it no longer flew it to Hong Kong as of 26 Oct 2025. 29 May 2009 * Lufthansa A340-600 D-AIHU * LH731 HKG-MUC 3 Jun 2009 * Lufthansa A340-600 D-AIHO * LH730 MUC-HKG I experienced child-like delight when I
I just returned from a month long trip to Taipei, and was lucky that one day before my return flight was the first commercial flight of Starlux's gorgeous new A350-1000 registration B– 58551, flight JX802 from Taipei to Narita First time witnessing a water gun salute! As the
“Huh? Why do you fly to London via Tokyo?” is the common refrain from friends. Now that I’m back, this post is my answer! Unfortunately due to the ongoing conflict, JL43 does not have overflying rights for Russian airspace and has to reroute the long way to Heathrow through
My sister writes: When I think back to our childhood, one theme rises above the rest—airplanes. Or rather, my brother’s love for airplanes. From the time we were little, he seemed born with this uncanny instinct for the skies. While I saw tiny silver specks drifting across the