Another airborne update I’m now flying my third 8,100 mile trip of the week, after having two days “off.” By now it’s all merely a routine. Get up at 3:45AM, shower, drive to the airport, go to the counter to negotiate my upgraded ticket, go past security, board at 5:30AM, and so on. It’s almost…
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So, why do you have to travel 8100 miles three times a week? It doesn't make sense to me. If it were business, you'd simply stay on the west coast for the week. If it's for miles, clearly your time isn't worth much at all. Just curious.
As I've referenced many times in past posts, these are mileage runs, whereby I'm flying for the sole purpose of accumulating airline miles. I don't think it's fair to say it makes my time worthless, because it's a hobby of mine, just like you might like golfing, biking, or whatever.
Mileage runs, as I've explained in several previous posts, allow me to see places of the world I otherwise couldn't otherwise afford to visit and widen my horizons. A few years ago I would have never thought I'd be able to visit places like Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Japan, Malta, Seoul, Singapore, and many more, all for very little.
Usually I wouldn't fly this much in a week, but in this case I had my final exams two weeks ago and I'm taking summer classes which start this week, so this past week has been my one "free" week.
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