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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 10/09/2026

The pre-arrival "meal" for this 13-hour day-flight is Spätzle or....a salad 😬

SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 10/09/2026

Nothing that really jumps out at me for my return flight from Seoul to Zürich on Swiss (up-front with the posh folk). At least they allow you to pre-order the meal in the app now. I might go for the grilled chicken which is the only Asian option here. #paxex

Screenshot of Swiss Business Class main meal choices. Grilled salmon, beef short ribs, grilled chicken, mushroom ravioli.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 06/09/2026

Since my upgrade bid probably won't clear due the flight having filled up out of nowhere (was pretty empty up until last week), I shall familiarize myself with the Premium Economy menu. I'm thinking Beef and the mushroom crepe. #avgeek #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 04/09/2026

It will be my first time on Korean Air soon and I already like what I am seeing 😍 Pictures of the meal choices in the app is really next level 🍱✈️🇰🇷 #avgeek #paxex

Screenshot of Korean Air app showing picture of the meal

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 30/08/2026

Amakusa Airlines' "Mizoca" ATR42 is by far the cutest and quirkiest plane combo I have every been on. She should be on every #avgeek's bucket list.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 25/08/2026

What have I done 😬 ✈️🐎🇬🇧

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 25/08/2026

My place of work is anything but glamorous but at least I get to see these old ladies pop by on a regular basis #avgeek

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 23/08/2026

Productive Sunday tending to our pumpkin babies.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 21/08/2026

Looks like there is a need for doors 😬 (Just popped up on my insta feed - good to know that the algorithm works hard to find content that ticks all of my interest boxes)

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 21/08/2026

23 days until check-in opens for the annual Japan trip (via Seoul). Things on the agenda this year: My favourite Austrian musical in Korean 🇦🇹🎼🇰🇷, Swiss Senses 💺😱, Gay Celebrity Restaurant 👨‍🍳🏳️‍🌈, Food on a Choo Choo Train 🚃🍱 My holidays - Sometimes Boeing. never Boring. 🤭

Poster for the Korean production of Elisabeth the Musical with Korean actress dressed up as Austrian empress Elisabeth.

Celebrity chef Kazuto from Netflix programme The Boyfriend.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 31/05/2026

Lufthansa really knows their way to an #avgeek heart ✈️♥️. Turns out on select flights passengers receive a gift to commemorate their 100 year anniversary and my MUC-EDI flight was one of them!!!! And the gift is a model plane in the special centenary livery!. I nearly wet myself when I realised 😂

Middle aged Asian man on a plane making the peace sign

Airline trolley with Lufthansa 100 year anniversary branding full of model plane boxes

Box of lufthansa plane model and Lufthansa chocolate

Hand Holding Lufthansa Miniature plane model in front of plane window

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 11/09/2025

I call this a balanced approach to holidaying.

Toyoko Inn Budget Hotel bedroom with double bed.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 09/09/2025

The Frankfurt Air Canada Lounge has always been my favourite and it is even better now with the refurb it had. #paxex

Air Canada Lounge. Row of armchairs by the window with view over the apron.

Air Canada Lounge. Seat cubicles for working.

Air Canada Lounge buffet with pancakes, German sausages, hash browns, scrambled eggs.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 09/09/2025

When's a window seat not a window seat? When there's no window 😆 #avgeek #windowseat

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 09/09/2025

You'd think that I'd be better at this by now. #avgeek #windowseat

Emergency exit seat legroom space on a plane.

Middle-aged Asian man looking stunned in window seat without a window.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 03/09/2025

That's one great coffee maker. I've had mine for nearly 10 years now..was stoked to find out that it is still one of the best coffee machines to have in 2025 ☕💅

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 31/08/2025

Gagged when I saw this picture on the Lufthansa website 😂 #paxex

Screenshot of photo on Lufthansa website. Two women posing in business class seats as if it was high fashion shoot.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 28/08/2025

I don't believe in paying for seat reservations but maybe I need to start to believe 🙈. Nae window seats left. #paxex

Screenshot of airline seat map with available seats.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Salad with a side of salad. For the 2 hour flight from ZRH to EDI up front in posh class, Edelweiss served a caprese salad with a side salad and a mango dessert. It was tasty but there wasn't much of it....and salad with salad? Also, no Biberli for the posh folk - posh chocolates instead. #paxex

Short haul business class meal. Buffalo mozzarella and tomato salad, side salad, slice of bread, mango dessert, glass of water, glass of rosé champagne.

Plate with buffalo mozzarella on a bed of tomato and herby sauce.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Here you go 💁🏻‍♀️ Shame you didn't pop up. Would have been fun! Glad you didn't though haha.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

I know how you feel!!!! (But I also came prepared 😜)

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Someone from the Las Vegas leg forgot their socks in the cubby 😬 #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Back to Scotland on Edelweiss A350 HB-IHC "Piz Palü" up front with the posh holiday airline folk. I was too late and only got an aisle seat. #paxex

Middle aged Asian man selfie on a plane. Planefie.

Legroom shot of Edelweiss Air new A350 business class seat.

Edelweiss Air A350 new business class seat.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Chilling at the Swiss E Gates Senator Lounge having one of the bestest whiskies. I will miss this lounge when I lose my my Gold status. (Oh yes, and that's my ride back to EDI just there!) #avgeek

Middle aged Asian guy selfie with glass of whisky and plane in the background

Whisky bar at Zurich Swiss Senator Lounge

Holding a glass of whisky with planes in the background

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Spent all morning at the observation deck at ZRH. It's usually CHF 5 but turns out that if you have a boarding pass for the flight on the day, you get in for FREE 🥰✈️📸

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Switzerland mission accomplished ✅. I can go home now. (Eating a hot fondue inside at 30*C without passing out was quite an achievement.)

Middle aged Asian man selfie in restaurant with pot of cheese fondue, potatoes and bread.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 17/08/2025

Thanks for the heads up ❤️❤️❤️

Rivella yellow bottle label saying it's lactose free.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 16/08/2025

Zurich flea market stall jackpot 🍱✈️🇨🇭. RIP my little wallet. #avgeek

Flea market stall with airline plates and trays

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 15/08/2025

It's funny how these so-called low-cost holiday airline subsidiaries are the ones still offering a full(ish) service. Lovely wee sandwich with falafel and sweet chili sauce. Not very Swiss I guess but tasty! And the Biberli was a great end to the Edelweiss flight as always! #paxex

Sandwich in an edelweiss Air wrapper on a plane tray table

Sandwich with falafel on a plane tray table

Middle aged Asian man selfie with sandwich in hand

Edelweiss Air signature Biberli soft gingerbread cookie

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 15/08/2025

Boarding complete. They seem to have filled this A350 down the back for this short hop from EDI to ZRH. Cabin looks great but it is tight! #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 15/08/2025

That's my ride arrived in Edinburgh 🧀🐄🍫.

Edelweiss Air A350 on runway at Edinburgh Airport.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 15/08/2025

Edinburgh Airport really is the pits. #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 15/08/2025

Going on a wee trip this weekend because short-haul widebody 💁🏻‍♀️ #avgeek

Middle-aged Asian man selfie next to a sign saying Lufthansa, Swiss, Edelweiss.

Screenshot of Flightradar24 for Edinburgh to Zurich flight operated by Edelweiss Air Airbus A350.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 06/08/2025

It's not often that you see an Austrian Airlines 787 coming into Glasgow! I was just looking at pictures of this particular aircraft the other day and thinking how naked the tail looked. Thanks to @flightradar24.com for existing 😘 Managed to grab my camera just in time! #avgeek

Austrian Airlines 787 above Glasgow neighbourhood

Screenshot of Flightradar24 app showing Austrian Airlines Vienna to New York diverting to Glasgow.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 18/07/2025

I think I turned my Lufty pattern into a pretty spiffin' phone cover. *Pads himself on the back #avgeek

Pink Pixel phone with a custom Lufthansa phone cover

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 07/06/2025

My friend just flew LATAM in steerage from GRU to LHR and called it "a budget airline". Food was "not good". #paxex

LATAM economy class meal. Gnocchi in cream sauce, focaccia-style bread, Twix, crackers and cheese.

LATAM economy class meal. Omelette with tomato and potatoes, fruit, focaccia-style bread.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 16/05/2025

Beware when flying Turkish Airlines: IF you want to credit flight to a different Star Alliance FF programme BUT also have TK Miles&Smiles account (for whatever reason) - beware of this tick box when using the WiFi onboard! ALWAYS read the small print! Don't make the same mistake as me 🤦🏻 #paxex

Screenshot of WiFi login page on Turkish airlines with tick box saying that you accept that miles earned on this flight automatically gets credited to the miles and smiles account

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 14/05/2025

Pleased that my suitcase found it's way back to me. Not so pleased that someone with very dirty hands had a look through my stuff 🤢

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 13/05/2025

Just a day late but better than never 🙏

WhatsApp screenshot saying suitcase has arrived

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 13/05/2025

With two days to go, there is like zero mention of Global Airlines on Glasgow Airport's Insta. #avgeek

Screenshot of Glasgow Airport Instagram page.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

Looks like it is all happening in Glasgow this week?! So this Global Airlines thing is actually happening? People bought tickets? I don't know about you but I have Eurovision on this week 🤭 #avgeek

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

No better way to get dragged right back down to reality than arriving without your luggage. Turkish lost my suitcase somewhere between Bangkok and Edinburgh. #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

The nice thing about TK regional business class is that it is a real business class with pre-departure drinks in proper glasses and hot towels - before AND after the meal. #paxex

Glass of lemonade on the centre console in Turkish Airlines business class

Hand holding a hot towel in Turkish Airlines business class

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

Food up front on TK1343 IST-EDI was really yummie! Appreciated how it was served in courses rather than all at once. Went for the spinach and cheese pastry for main which was so so good. Finished off with a lovely Turkish coffee. #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

Treated myself to a wee upgrade on TK for the IST-EDI leg. Flight was operated by an A321Neo. Pretty much the same seat as UA PE (but with much more recline I think). I like this seat! #paxex

Plane selfie of Asian man in his forties.

Bulkhead with TV screen in Turkish Airlines business class.

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

On the delayed BKK-IST TK68, dinner service started around 1am BKK time. Had the dory fish which was lovely. But the real stat was the pumpkin chickpea salad. Gorgeous! For breakfast, 2 hours before landing, I went for the waffles. There was something fresh and light about both meals. #paxex

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SOPLANE NIK 🌈✈️🍱 @flysoplane.com · 12/05/2025

Back to EDI via IST on TK. Despite smelly guy next to me (*G failed or he got wrong seat as one on other side of him remained empty), managed to sleep through most of it. again, TK delivered on onboard amenities. Crew also seemed very friendly, professional and in good spirits. #paxex

Turkish Airlines economy class amenities. Pillow blanket, headphones, amenity kit.

Plane selfie - asian man in his forties sitting in economy class

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