Off to Bangkok
Today I'm off for a quick 4 day trip to Bangkok having found round trip Japan Airlines First award seats with perfect connections to Thai First Class.
The itinerary for my four days:
• American First Class to Chicago O'Hare
• American Airlines Flagship Lounge at O'Hare
• Japan Airlines First Class to Narita
• Thai Airways New First Class to Bangkok
• St. Regis Bangkok
• Moon Bar Rooftop at the Banyan Tree Hotel
• My Day Touring Bangkok
• Dinner at Amazing Gaa Bangkok, ranked #33 in 2022 Asia's Best.
• Thai Royal First Class Lounge at BKK
• Thai Airways First Class to Narita
• Japan Airlines First Class to San Francisco
• United First Class SFO to Denver
Denver to Chicago
American 2771
737-800
5:38am-9:00am
July 18, 2022
First up today is a crazy 5:38am American flight to Chicago... to connect to the only Japan Airlines flight that lets me make a same day connection to Bangkok.
Dreadful Oasis interior seats. Mercifully only a two hour flight.
Gorgeous morning in Denver.
AA hot towel(ette).
Puny as always.
Beautiful day in Chicago.
I headed for the Flagship Lounge with more than three hours to spare for my 12:55pm JAL departure.
The ORD Flagship Lounge is one of the nicest ones in the system... mucho better than the dump at JFK.
AA's less than stellar wine offerings...
But an excellent Bloody Mary station.
I arrived in time for the breakfast spread...
And a little later, a Gin station although someone forgot to put out the Fever Tree Sparkling Lemon.
And now lunch...
All in all, a pleasant nearly three hour stay. Another nice thing about the Flagship Lounge is that there is a JAL agent on duty prior to JAL departures, making doc check very easy.
For those into Instagram, I've posted some IG videos...
