Round The World and other travels
A frequent flyer's collection of trip diaries
This is: Voyage of the Glaciers (2015)
Step by step to Vegas
It was an early start to a long day of intercontinental and transcontinental flying. I allowed myself to partake of the cooked breakfast offering at the Hilton Garden Inn, but deliberately tried not to eat too much as I fully expected to be well looked after as the journey progressed. After transferring to Heathrow on an underground train that somehow managed to be even busier than those used during the previous day's evening peak, I spent some quality time in the British Airways ‘Galleries’ lounge at Terminal 3 before embarking on a multi-stage flying programme as follows:
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London to New York with American Airlines, featuring AA’s superb business-class seat on the Boeing 777-300ER;
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New York to Phoenix, again on AA but still – with the merger as yet incomplete – technically operated by US Airways; and finally
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Phoenix to Las Vegas: same flight number, same plane, same seat!
With all that under my belt, I transferred to the DoubleTree Las Vegas Airport to spend the night. Two more short hops were still to come, and then the sightseeing could get underway in earnest!
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