I’m actually excited as I’m crossing Qsuites off the bucket list.
Yep, I will get tested before departure, but wanted to get tested upon arrival as well, just want to play it safe. I travelled a few times in the pandemic and know there are many hurdles to jump. But now it seems my AstraZeneca is accepted in the US so things will ease up a bit. I’m gonna take a few at-home-tests with me to check myself every 5 days.
Are you flying from Ben Gurion?
Btw, I changed planes in MIA once, 9 years ago. My luggage didn’t make it on the same flight, no big deal as it came on the next one 4 hours later.
this time I’m flying into MIA on purpose to visit friends in Palm Beach on my way to Orlando.
i'm not familiar with Qatar Airways. I'll take a look.
I'm more familiar with the airlines out of the UAE.
Friends have flown Emirates and really like it.
It's slightly more difficult to get to Doha, since there aren't any nonstops there like there are to Dubai, though i could go via Amman.
I'm happy with El Al, though i also fly Delta if i have to get to Detroit (which is basically owned by Delta).
Delta's ok, though the Delta crews can be hit or miss. The El Al crews in my experience are really nice.
On that flight that was direct to Orlando (in 2019), it was just my daughter and me on the flight.
We were in business class, so it was easier to sleep those 13.5 hours.
What was nice, it was the first time we'd ever been able to fly non-stop to orlando without having to stop anywhere.
We usually have to go through JFK which is hell on earth.
So while we were exhausted when we arrived in Orlando, when we got to immigration i looked at the officer and said, "we're here!!!!! we don't have to connect!!!! it's so exciting!!!"
I was so excited and enthusiastic, the immigration officer broke out laughing. It was 5:30 in the morning. He couldn't believe how happy i was to have flown for so long.
But no connecting flight!!! it was fantastic!!!
On the transatlantic flights in 2022, we'll be on the dreamliner, but since it's 9 of us in the group and i'm footing the bill, we'll mostly be in premium, not business.
My daughter and son in law will be in business, but he broke his back a number of years ago, and it's really too painful for him in anything but business.
Plus they're flying into miami with us, but on the way back they're flying from los angeles, which is 15.5 hours. Way too many hours not to be in business.
Hopefully, premium will be good.
At least it's a small cabin - just 3 rows. We have one entire row. My son, daughter in law and 3 grandkids, plus my husband and me.
Actually, last year when Israel signed with the UAE, i looked at the flights out of Dubai to see if there was anything into Orlando for us.
But it didn't really work.
Now that i think about it, we did fly KLM via Amsterdam one year directly into Orlando from Amsterdam, which theoretically is good.
But we got stuck in Amsterdam for 12 hours because the plane had technical problems.
Eventually they switched the plane, but only after we were stuck in Schiphol all day.
Had i known at the start that it would be that long, i would have taken the kids into the city, but they kept delaying by one hour at a time.
That was when my kids were little and i was flying with them by myself. Definitely not fun.
Americans have no idea what some of us go through to visit the Florida mouse LOL