All is booked. We fly out of Austin at 8am Jan24 on our way to Atlanta. We'll swap planes there and take off around noon headed for Tokyo Narita airport. If all goes according to plan, we'll leave there two hours later on our flight to Bangkok, arriving at 11:55pm local time Friday Jan 25. Since Bangkok is 13hrs ahead of time, we're looking at approximately 30hrs from the time we walk into Austin airport to the time we walk out of Bankok airport (give or take time for customs).
The return leg puts us leaving Bangkok at 5:55am Sunday Feb 10, then flying to Tokyo-Narita again, this time heading to St Paul before dropping back down to Austin at 8:15pm Sunday night. The joys of time zone differences means we take two days to get there but only one to get back.
I look forward to neither of these portions of the trip. I've flown globally for about 15 years, and while the entertainment has gotten much better, the accommodations have faltered. As few flights fly, more people are now being packed onto the flights you can get. Airlines have also determined that they can cram more seats into their planes by taking away any and all leg room, unless you want to pay the extra hundred dollars per flight per person to get the extra 4inches of legroom back that used to be considered standard. We won't even discuss airport security. Very obnoxious. That being said, it's worth the obnoxiousness to reach the destination, so I'll keep putting up with it. Speaking of which, I'll share the plans in the next post!
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