” I always want a full rest after any door to door time of more than 20 hours.”
The South American trip never afforded me the time to unwind before my meetings. We would leave Newark around 11:00pm, get into Buenos Aires around 7:00am and brought right to the office. Flight attendants hated me because I don’t sleep on a plane. So I am up and down all night. Good thing was it was all first class service.
You know you fly too much when you get on the plane and the flight attendants say, “crap, not you again!”
You know you fly too much when you have a platinum mileage card and they know you by face and name when you get on the airplane. It sure made an unpleasant thing to do more pleasant. At one time I was platinum on UA, AA, Lufthansa, KLM and Sing Air I think. There was no Emirates back then or I surely would have been platinum on that one.
Flights to Rio were some of the best for being able to get sleep and arrive at a decent time of day to get some work done.
It is a wonder I did not get clots in my legs all those years sitting on airplanes.