Date: Sunday October 15
Flight: 872
Aircraft: 777-300ER
Origin: TPE
Destination: SFO
Seat: 1D Polaris Business
Scheduled Push Back: 9:50 AM
Actual Push Back: 9:46 AM
This flight was originally serviced by a 747-400 and I had seats on the upper deck. I then noticed the aircraft was swapped to the new 77W a few weeks later. While I was sad I wouldn’t fly the upper deck of the 747 one more time, I was excited to fly the new Polaris hard product.
I was flying United Polaris from Taipei to San Francisco and had access either to the Singapore SilverKris lounge or the EVA Air lounge. I saw the Singapore lounge first so I decided to go with that.
Date: Thursday October 12
Flight: 636
Aircraft: A330-300
Origin: BKK
Destination: TPE
Seat: 14B Business
Scheduled Push Back: 5:40 PM
Actual Push Back: 6:10 PM
I’ve never flown Thai business on an international route so I was pretty excited. I lowered my expectations a bit as this is a intra-Asia flight and doesn’t even have fully flat seats.
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Date: Saturday March 25
Flight: UA871
Aircraft: B747-400
Origin: SFO
Destination: TPE
Seat: Economy
Scheduled Push Back: 1:50 PM
Actual Push Back: 1:50 PM
As a casual flyer with no Star Alliance status I normally spend my flying time hidden among the unwashed masses in economy class. This time was no different as I embarked on a flight to TPE with my girlfriend for a week long vacation.