Flight Review: United (Economy) | Boeing 777-300er | Newark – Frankfurt

Good morning everyone, and welcome to a new flight review! This trip was a huge trip in terms of flights that had me tackling three different airlines and four different aircraft types based in different areas of the world. The details of the trip can be found here. This first portion of the trip was from […]

United 767 Economy vs. Austrian 767 Economy: Which is Better?

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new comparison! Today we will be comparing United’s 767 Economy Class and Austrian’s 767 Economy Class. Both airlines have used these planes for a while but retrofitted then with new seats about five years ago. Both airlines primarily use these planes for transatlantic flights, and both airlines are in […]

Primera Air Declares Bankruptcy, Ceases Operations

I definitely saw this coming. Primera Air was an ultra low cost carrier owned by the Icelandic-based Primera Travel Group. For most of their seven year history, they operated short haul flights within Europe from various bases in northern Europe. They operated these flights with 737s. Last year, the airline turned heads when it announced […]

Introduction: A Trip of a Lifetime

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new RJ Aviation Trip Report, covering travel in United’s new 777 Economy Class, Lufthansa’s A320, A330 and A340 Economy Class, and Qatar Airways’ A320 and new 777 Economy Class. For quite a few years now, my family has wanted to go on a safari in Africa. Earlier this year, […]

Flight Review: United (Economy) | Geneva-Newark | Boeing 767-300er

Good morning everyone, and welcome to a new RJ Aviation flight review! First of all, I would like to apologize that there hasn’t been a post up in so long. Even though I started this post a while ago, I have been busy during the summer with other things and been focusing on the beginning […]

Qatar Airways to Fly A350-1000 to New York

The Airbus A350-1000 just had its first delivery earlier this year and is arguably the most comfortable plane in the world to fly. Qatar Airways was the launch customer, and their aircraft have 46 Qsuite business class seats and 281 Economy Class seats. Although I have not flown Qsuite, every single review of it that […]

BREAKING: Aeromexico E190 Crashes on Takeoff

There are not many details yet on this incident, but according to One Mile At A Time, an Aeromexico Embraer 190 with the tail number XA-GAL was operating flight 2431 from Durango to Mexico City. The flight was operated by Aeromexico Connect. There were 100 passengers on board, and according to ABC News, 85 passengers […]

Flight Review: United (Economy) | Newark-Geneva | Boeing 767-300er

Hello everyone, and welcome to this new flight review! Last February, my family and I went on a skiing trip to Switzerland, and we flew directly on United. More details on this can be found in the introduction post. But let’s just get straight into the review! We got to Newark’s Terminal C a couple […]

Introduction: United to Ski in Switzerland

Good morning everyone! Last February, my family and I went on a skiing trip to Verbier in Switzerland and I enjoyed what I could probably argue is one of the countries with the best skiing experiences you can get anywhere in the world. The amount of snow was incredible, and the trails felt endless. The […]

The Problem with United’s Polaris Marketing

United has greatly improved their business class product over the last couple of years. The reveal of Polaris in mid 2016 ahead of their new 777-300er deliveries promised both a better soft product and a better hard product, as well as new lounges. You can see and track their improvements on their Polaris site. In […]