Many upmarket hotels in Hong Kong provide this now on a mobile phone that you can use during your stay, including a data allowance for google searches and map directions. I stayed at The Pottinger Hotel in Central a few years back and had this available.

I remember passing through this terminal in 1980 with my father on a world trip. Arrived from LAX on a TWA 747 and departed days later to Paris, also on a TWA 747. I remember being in awe of the cavernous transit hall and the 'tubes' to get to the gates. Wow indeed and kudos to the designers of t...

Tokyo to Aomori on the northern tip of the main island of Kyushu is up to 300km per hour. It's the undersea tunnel that connects Aomori and Hakodate on Hokkaido that has speed limitations for now due to passing (non-shinkansen) traffic that would be blasted apart from the boom of the passing, muc...

I flew QR business CDG-DOH-SYD last week on their 777-300ER & 777-200LR. Whilst I would've loved the A380 seat and walk-up bar there really was no difference. The seat was exceptionally comfortable in all modes and whist it didn't havbe direct aisle access like the A380, the gap between the f...

VA did fly MEL-LAX non-stop until last year. Obviously they weren't making enough money on that and decided to beef up their BNE-LAX offering.