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| The HOT lounge No, HOT is not a new low-cost airline. It is literally the hottest airport lounge anywhere, ever. True statement! Finnair's Platinum lounge at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport sports a sauna. A dark colored, nice proper sauna. Respect! Full story July 2023, Helsinki-Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland Sauna (Normal); Flying | |
| May 1st at the Finnair Lounge Wow. Munkkeja (donuts). Traditional May 1st delicacy. Full story May 2023, Helsinki-Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland Flying | |
| Finnair's European A350 routes I've occasionally ended in a wide-body A350 flight flown by Finnair, on an intra-European route. Turned out that this week I got two experience two of them in different cities: Brussels and Amsterdam. The third route that they regularly fly is London Heathrow. Full story May 2023, Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium; Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands Flying; Travel | |
| A Certificate for Visiting the North Pole! Finnair gave me a certificate for being on their flight over the North Pole! When I asked the flight attendant about the coordinates (which are not exactly at North Pole), she promised to check with the crew. When she came back, she said that the captain says he doesn't know what coordinates were on the certificate, but that it was probably the marketing department's idea of the location of the North Pole :-) Full story April 2023, North Pole, International Flying | |
| Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Haneda, Tokyo Internal Airport. Japan Airlines has a very nice lounge... and it was an empty one at the time for the Finnair flight to leave late in the evening. Full story April 2023, Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan Travel; Flying | |
| Trip to the North Pole br Full story March 2023, North Pole, International; Helsinki-Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland Flying; Sauna (Normal) | |
| Caged Finnair Plane The new Berlin airport (Brandenburg Airport, BER) has nice walkways to the plan, with some see-through but not entirely views to the planes. Full story March 2023, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Berlin, Germany Flying; Travel | |
| I love the smell of ... ... ski boots in the morning. Full story February 2023, Helsinki-Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland Skiing (None); Travel; Flying | |
| Krakow Business Lounge When returning from our trip to the Polish mountain regions, we flew out of Kraków's airport. We ended up waiting in the Business Lounge. It turned out that the wait was actually quite long. Our plane circled near the airport for 90 minutes, waiting for the fog to to dissipate. Full story January 2023, Krakow Airport, Krakow, Poland Flying; Travel | |
| Chopin's Fantazja Executive Lounge After our original flight was cancelled, I ended up leaving Kraków by taking LOT to Warsaw, and then onto a Finnair evening flight. Sorting out the situation was a hassle, but in the end we got home. Full story January 2023, Warsaw Airport, Warsaw, Poland Flying; Travel | |
| Flying on Air Serbia I had a rare opportunity to fly Air Serbia. Not quite Aeroflot level ... but I wouldn't trust them :-) Just kidding it was ok. Full story December 2022, Belgrade Airport, Belgrade, Serbia Flying | |
| Finnair A350 on short haul routes Interesting... ended up on the Finnair A350 on my way back home from London. And they gave me an upgrade! A rare one, but still :-) And the A350 is such a nice airplane. Full story August 2022, Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom Flying | |
| Lounges .. now we are talking... ... or barking? Full story July 2022, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Travel; Flying | |
| Letecké Muzeum More airplanes Our hotel near Prague was by two smaller, older airport that operates now as a general aviation, military, and museum airports. The Praha-Kbely airport has a truly great aviation museum, the Letecké muzeum Kbely. (Nice, Prague. I wish Helsinki was more clever about retaining historic airports...) Full story July 2022, Letecké Muzeum, Praha, Czech Republic Flying; Travel; History | |
| Reindeer burger and a hot sauna. Airport lounges redefined? Only in Finland, and only in Helsinki, and only with Finnair. Nowhere else can you enjoy a lounge sauna and a reindeer burger in the airline lounge. Not too shitty. But then I had to squeeze myself into a small metal tube for travel. Full story July 2022, Helsinki-Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland Flying; Travel; Sauna (Normal) | |
| ORD flagship lounge I had a layover in Chicago on my way to a meeting... it turned out to be a long layover due to planes being late, and everything being super-crowded. But this also meant that I had time to visit the American Airlines Flagship Lounge in Terminal 3. Not bad, particularly liked the well-working WiFi and the mushroom pasta. Full story July 2022, Chicago O'Hare Airport, Chicago, USA Travel; Flying | |
This is the 3th set of articles. The previous sets were set 1, and set 2. The next sets are set 4, set 5, and set 6.
The Planetflyer articles appeared originally in the Blogspot Planetskier series, at TGR posts, or at the Relaa website. See also the articles about skiing, caving, urban exploration, climbing, cycling, swimming, and saunas.