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Emirates: No Match

October 13, 2011 by Martin J Cowling 8 Comments

Its like being turned down by someone you most like! Ever had that experience? I just asked Emirates, my favourite airline, for a “status match” with Qantas where I hold Gold Frequent Flyer Status. One of the difficulties of being “high status” with one airline is that it does “lock you in”. Gold Status comes with express check in, lounge access, bonus frequent flyer points and higher luggage allowances. I have Blue Status (the basic level with Emirates) because I frankly haven’t flown them enough. They don’t fly on most of the routes, I have…

This blog is moving!

October 9, 2011 by Martin J Cowling Leave A Comment

The big news is my blog is moving to a new location. I have joined the team at Boardingarea.com BoardingArea was developed by the same people who founded some of the most popular business travel and frequent flyer Web sites on the Internet. They say: “In our years covering topics of interest to the business traveler, we bookmarked the best business travel blogs we stumbled across, and even hosted one of the first blogs in this arena – View From the Wing. Now we’re sharing those bookmarks with you.. all in one place.” The business travel…

Wild about travel has moved!

October 7, 2011 by Martin J Cowling 2 Comments

As foreshadowed, Boardingarea.com is our new home. Thanks for inviting us aboard! I am Wild about Travel. I love it. Both the journey and the destination. I want to share about my experiences with both. Thoughts and observations from where I have been and how I have got there. Expect cities, nature, planes, trains, advice, hassles and good times. I have flown 786 times (as of now) for a total of 1,785,449km (1,109,427 miles) to six continents with 78 airlines. I have experienced boat travel and train travel on or between five continents and buses plus cars…

Wild about Travel reaches 20 000 page views!

October 1, 2011 by Martin J Cowling Leave A Comment

A new record for September with my greatest readership yet and a new milestone achieved. Thanks everyone

Wild about Travel hits record audience numbers

September 25, 2011 by Martin J Cowling 1 Comment

The number of readers to this blog has been rapidly climbing which I am thrilled about. June, July and August were my three biggest months. September is shaping up to beat them. To do that I need 33 more readers every day. Love you to do one of four things please: Keep reading each of my blog posts Comment on them Tell me whats missing-what do you like reading about in my posts? Recommend to others please Thank you for joining me in my travel adventures.

Exciting News Coming

September 18, 2011 by Martin J Cowling Leave A Comment

I can hardly contain myself as I have a secret!I have some very exciting news regarding this blog: “Wild about travel” Watch this space for more! In the meantime, thank you for your readership and comments (more comments please!)

Tribute to the Plane Crews of September 11

September 11, 2011 by Martin J Cowling Leave A Comment

Fragments from N334AA Our view of the world changed forever on September 11, 2001 when four planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda sponsored terrorists. 2976 victims and 19 hijackers died when all four of the planes crashed- two into the the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one into the Pentegon and one into a Pennsylvanian field. All airspace was closed and all non-emergency civilian aircraft in the USA grounded immediately with five hundred international flights turned back. I want to pay tribute to the flight crews, cabin crews and passengers on the four hijacked flights. American Airlines flight 11 Boston Logan to LAXBoeing…

771st

September 4, 2011 by Martin J Cowling 3 Comments

Have my 771st flight next week…only six more flights until the magic 777!I can tell you I have chosen which airline to fly my 777th flight on and am very excited about it! Ah the joys of being a travel nerd!

AIR NZ VS V AUSTRALIA 777

August 21, 2011 by Martin J Cowling Leave A Comment

I use Flight Memory to keep a record of all of my flights- every single one of them since I first flew in 1968. For my 737th flight, I flew a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 from Portland to Spokane and had a brilliant flight.747th was on a Qantas 747 from Melbourne to Los Angeles. The Qantas team put on a great flight- and Qantas even followed up with a souvenir 747 in the postUnited Airlines turn came next with flight 757 on a B757 from DC to LAX and it was terrible. 767 is fast approaching on an Air NZ Boeing 767 Business…

Hotel Club Fails Me — again

August 7, 2011 by Martin J Cowling Leave A Comment

It was midnight on a wintery June night in, New Zealand, when I arrived at my hotel. I had flown from Australia which is not a long trip but it sill involves several hours of travel. It was late and I was tired. There was one guest in front of me. The guy said to him: “you are lucky I have one room left“. Hearing that, I was so glad I had my printed confirmed booking. I stepped up to the counter and introduced myself to the pleasant reception guy. He tapped on his computer, frowned, tapped…

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