My trip started with a recap/reminise of the airplanes and airlines I took in my three previous trips (and trip reports in this forum). There is the Austrian 767 - a wonderful inflight catering experience, the UA 744 upper deck C (after downgrade myself from 777F voluntarily) and the Air China flights that took me part of the way across the Taiwan strait in my previous trip report.

LH 744 is my most flown aircraft this year. I have had more Asia-EU trips this year than past years, and there is another one scheduled later this week, next month, and next quarter. I am looking forward to the switch to A380 on FRA-PEK-FRA later this year









It was a miserable polluted morning in Beijing. From the picture above, you can see how dark the sky was at 9:30 am in the morning.