Tailwind Air: Can’t beat seaplane service Manhattan to Boston Harbor
(photo Alfredo Maldonado) by Ron Benthal The summer of 2022 has already seen its share of delayed and cancelled flights, massively…
SAS FLIGHT REVIEW NEWARK – STOCKHOLM SAS PLUS
Interior A-330 aircraft, SAS Plus cabin. Photo courtesy SAS By Ron Bernthal I arrived at Newark’s terminal B about two hours…
Flight Review: JetBlue New York JFK – Houston Hobby
A320 at lift-off (photo George Santry/JetBlue) Review by Ron Bernthal During the past few years JetBlue has been rolling out new…
ICELANDAIR REVIEW: NEWARK-REYKJAVÍK, SAGA CLASS
REVIEW BY RON BERNTHAL In 2014 more than one million people visited Iceland, three times the country’s population, and figures were…
Norwegian: Premium class offers best of both worlds — price and comfort
Norwegian 787-8 Dreamliner (photo courtesy Norwegian) By Ron Bernthal The United Nations has listed Norway as the number one…
Flight Review: UNITED AIRLINES, STUTTGART – NEWARK, BUSINESS/FIRST
Business/First seating on UA153 Stuttgart-Newark 757-200. Flight Review: United Airlines Stuttgart (STR) – Newark (EWR), Business/First United Airlines operates the…
Airline Review: airberlin – NEW YORK (JFK) – BERLIN Business Class
airberlin aircraft prepares for takeoff (photo Dennis Bhogal for airberlin) Although airberlin likes to spell its name in lower case, the…
Airline Review: SWISS, NEW YORK-ZURICH
With my passport and printed boarding pass in hand I went directly to the First/Business security line at JFK’s Terminal 4,…
China Airlines: New York – Osaka’s First Non-Stop Flights between New York and Osaka will increase commercial and tourism between US and Kansai Region
by Ron Bernthal In April, 2011, one month after parts of northern Japan were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, the…
Virgin Atlantic’s ‘Upper Class’ means VIP treatment from pre-boarding to landing
by Ron Bernthal Virgin Atlantic's lie-flat seats in Upper Class cabin (photos courtesy Virgin Atlantic) Virgin Atlantic’s complimentary ground transfer to…