How do you explain your frequent flying?

[Deleted member 29185]

Which begs the question. What's your longest (furthest away) long weekend destination? Non business trip

The fridge!

 

[smit0847]

Some nights I get "you're on that bloody website again........" but when we are sitting, sipping bubbly in J/F as the Y's file past I ALWAYS get "Oh, I do love your points obsession...."

My partner kinda gets my obsession by can be very inconsistent about it:
- Sometimes when I ask him to sign up to some bonus offer he’ll sigh and say something like ‘why do we have to keep jumping through hoops like this!’ whereas just this week I told him about a particular credit card offer and he piped up with ‘that’s a very good sign-on bonus for that card compared with similar cards in the market – Im definitely going to sign up for that’.
- He’s been on many J and F flights thanks to my little hobby and again, he’s inconsistent with what he likes and doesn’t like – he said the SQ Private Room was ‘nothing special’ while the EY AUH J lounge was ‘excellent’. I don’t get it sometimes!
- My big frustration with him is that he doesn’t see the point in flying J and F for daytime flights and sees this as a ‘waste’ of points over flying Y. While I book him on SQ F when we travel together, he’s booked himself on D7 and JQ Y to Vietnam when he travels alone (as they’re daytime flights), and is perfectly happy with that. Im exactly the opposite – if its J or F I prefer a daytime flight to fully enjoy/experience everything – if its an overnight flight and I just sleep the whole way I wonder if it was a bit of a waste, particularly if I land on a Sunday morning and have nothing to do the next day (ie I could have potentially flown Y if I was just going to sleep and if I didn’t sleep I could just come home and sleep straight away anyway). My favourite time to fly is in the afternoon heading west to Asia – its still daytime so you can enjoy everything, but late enough in the day that you can celebrate with a few glasses of something nice.
- I joke to him all the time when he expresses frustration about my hobby that ‘its much easier for me to book you in Y than J’ to which he always objects but I don’t think he really appreciates it as much as I do. He also thinks its quite normal to travel J or F now given we do it so often so isn’t all that aware of how lucky we are and that most people don’t have someone literally handing them champagne on a silver platter. I’d be happier if he was a little more grateful about how much effort I put into this hobby for both our benefit! Hopefully the D7 and JQ trips might make him realise how different it is up front.

Im taking my younger cousin on two J trips later this year on JAL, CX, KA and TG. He’s never travelled even Y+ before and is incredibly excited (to the point of saying ‘I hope all this J and F travel you’ve been doing means you don’t get excited about this because I can’t wait!’. I love bringing loved ones ‘into my world’ and usually find their excitement very infectious so Im hoping he is like a kid on Christmas Day.

 

[zainman]

My partner kinda gets my obsession by can be very inconsistent about it:
- Sometimes when I ask him to sign up to some bonus offer he’ll sigh and say something like ‘why do we have to keep jumping through hoops like this!’ whereas just this week I told him about a particular credit card offer and he piped up with ‘that’s a very good sign-on bonus for that card compared with similar cards in the market – Im definitely going to sign up for that’.
- He’s been on many J and F flights thanks to my little hobby and again, he’s inconsistent with what he likes and doesn’t like – he said the SQ Private Room was ‘nothing special’ while the EY AUH J lounge was ‘excellent’. I don’t get it sometimes!
- My big frustration with him is that he doesn’t see the point in flying J and F for daytime flights and sees this as a ‘waste’ of points over flying Y. While I book him on SQ F when we travel together, he’s booked himself on D7 and JQ Y to Vietnam when he travels alone (as they’re daytime flights), and is perfectly happy with that. Im exactly the opposite – if its J or F I prefer a daytime flight to fully enjoy/experience everything – if its an overnight flight and I just sleep the whole way I wonder if it was a bit of a waste, particularly if I land on a Sunday morning and have nothing to do the next day (ie I could have potentially flown Y if I was just going to sleep and if I didn’t sleep I could just come home and sleep straight away anyway). My favourite time to fly is in the afternoon heading west to Asia – its still daytime so you can enjoy everything, but late enough in the day that you can celebrate with a few glasses of something nice.
- I joke to him all the time when he expresses frustration about my hobby that ‘its much easier for me to book you in Y than J’ to which he always objects but I don’t think he really appreciates it as much as I do. He also thinks its quite normal to travel J or F now given we do it so often so isn’t all that aware of how lucky we are and that most people don’t have someone literally handing them champagne on a silver platter. I’d be happier if he was a little more grateful about how much effort I put into this hobby for both our benefit! Hopefully the D7 and JQ trips might make him realise how different it is up front.

Im taking my younger cousin on two J trips later this year on JAL, CX, KA and TG. He’s never travelled even Y+ before and is incredibly excited (to the point of saying ‘I hope all this J and F travel you’ve been doing means you don’t get excited about this because I can’t wait!’. I love bringing loved ones ‘into my world’ and usually find their excitement very infectious so Im hoping he is like a kid on Christmas Day.

Let's hope he doesn't see this post...

 

[Fiches Mouser]

Recently my colleagues have just decided that I must be an international drug mule due to the short, regular trips to faraway destinations.

Is it so unbelievable that I might just enjoy the journey?