Luxury Ride Home
Much of this trip was stitched together by taking advantage of seasonal and geographical flight bargains using credit card and airline points and miles. For instance, it cost fewer points to fly the 10 hour flight from Las Vegas to London this January, than it frequently does to fly the two hours from Chicago to Boston. The vagabond nature of this trip was due in part to the quirks of where and when those bargains were to be found. Leaving Calcutta Sunday night, the 29th, I was starting on the last phase of the trip, one where I splurged a bit in the throwing about of my accumulated points. I had started the planning of this trip several months ago by booking one of the last flights first: Singapore to New York on Singapore Airlines. This is generally considered to be the longest flight in the world at the moment, clocking in at 18 to 19 hours, depending on the breeze. Splurge Number One was to use a portion of my stash ...
