Flight Report: ICN-MNL on Korean Air Flight KE 619 (01 Feb 2025)

A brief look at my recent experience aboard Korean Air (KE) flight KE 619 between Seoul and Manila.

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Flight Report: ICN-PUS on Korean Air Flight KE 1429 (27 Jan 2025)

A review of my experience aboard Korean Air (KE) flight KE 1429 between Seoul and Busan.

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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.

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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 flights can help international travellers transit easily to or from Busan and Daegu.

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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: cart service is no longer offered on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. (It’s still done on some other lines but not here.) What to do?

Whip out your mobile device and order online, of course. Here’s how.

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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).

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Rail Report: Tōkyō to Takamatsu on Japan’s “Sunrise Seto” Sleeper Train (28-29 September 2023)

In this post, we’ll hop aboard an overnight service that carries passengers on a 500-mile journey across Japan – all whilst they’re sleeping soundly in bed. (Or as soundly as they can manage on a moving train, anyway!)

Welcome aboard the Sunrise Seto.

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