• Flight Report: MNL-ICN on Korean Air Flight KE 626 (27 Jan 2025)

    A review of my recent experience aboard Korean Air (KE) flight KE 626 between Manila and Seoul.

  • Korean Air’s Transit Exclusive Domestic Flights

    As the global hub of Korean Air (KE), Seoul’s Incheon International Airport (ICN) connects South Korea to scores of destinations around the world. It also hosts special flights offering smooth links with two other Korean airports that don’t enjoy as many direct overseas connections. In this post, we’ll learn how KE’s so-called transit exclusive domestic…

  • Et Verbum caro factum est . . .

    . . . et habitávit in nobis: et vídimus glóriam eius, glóriam quasi Unigéniti a Patre, plenum grátiæ et veritátis. DEO GRATIAS! Diego wishes you, your family, and all your loved ones a very happy Christmas.

  • How to order snacks in the Green Car on a Tōkaidō Shinkansen train

    Let’s set the scene. You’re in the Green Car (first-class compartment) of a high-speed train on Japan’s Tōkaidō Shinkansen line between Tōkyō and Ōsaka. You start feeling peckish but you’ve neglected to stock up back at the station. “Ah, there’s the cart person who rolls up and down the train selling provisions!” Then it hits:…

  • Flight Report: MNL-KIX on Jetstar Asia flight 3K763 (06 Jul 2024)

    Flight Report: MNL-KIX on Jetstar Asia flight 3K763 (06 Jul 2024)

    Welcome aboard Jetstar Asia flight 3K763, which will take us from Manila (Philippines) to Ōsaka (Japan).

Quote of the week

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

~ Rogers Hornsby