Aditya Verma
Bangalore-based corporate IT consultant logging 200K+ miles a year on UA/LH/EK. Writes part-time on long-haul connections from the road-warrior side.
Aditya has been a corporate IT consultant for a Bangalore-based services firm for twelve years and logs over two hundred thousand miles a year doing it, mostly on Lufthansa, United, and Emirates, mostly on connections from BLR to North America via Frankfurt, Newark, or San Francisco. He writes as a hobby that has now become a small parallel career.
He writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one piece a month focused on long-haul connections from South Asia, the math of frequent-flyer programmes used at consultant volume, and the routing decisions that experienced corporate travellers make without thinking. His beat is the road-warrior view of global connectivity, with a strong preference for honesty about what the cheap option really costs.
He lives in Indiranagar, flies BLR almost weekly, and maintains the contrarian position that Lufthansa Senator is still the best return on volume in the alliance ecosystem, even after the recent miles devaluation that everyone is upset about.
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SFO on a Tight Budget: 4 Terminals, 12 Lounges, 8 Parking Lots, and the Real Cost of BART vs Taxi
San Francisco International behaves like four airports in one. How its 4 terminals, 12 lounges, 8 parking lots, and BART vs SamTrans vs taxi choices change your total trip cost if you care about money, time, or both.
San Francisco International Airport lounges for mixed-status groups: how SFO’s dense lounge grid makes meetups easier
San Francisco International Airport’s 12 catalogued lounges across four terminals, 119 gates, and multiple access networks make it one of the easiest US hubs for mixed-status groups to actually stay together.