I’ve heard that using frequent flier miles can be tricky, although I’ve never had a problem in the past. While I made my reservation well in advance and am reasonably pleased with my final arrangements, getting there wasn’t easy. When I started looking for travel dates the airline computer gave me a lot of choices involving an overnight stopover in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles or somewhere else I don’t remember. It was late in the evening; I decided I couldn’t cope and went to bed. I like to sleep on important decisions– this looked like it was going to be painful. The next morning, having decided that if I had to have a sleepover, it should be in Chicago, my former hometown, I began looking at the computer again, changing some parameters, looking at different dates, and finally found a flight to Chicago with only a few hours layover before a non-stop flight to Narita–well worth the extra effort on a good night’s sleep.
