T110's Second Century of Civilised Comfort

The_Chieftain: I'm back in California, now.  Was doing a solid for the Tokyo office, GuP related.

Unlike most companies, which puts people in business class over a certain length flight, in practice WG works on "privilege of rank". However,  they aren't hard-arses about it, and have paid co-pay for upgrades. I have to provide the miles, but since I get most of them at the company's expense anyway, it s not unreasonable.  So,for every, say, Trans Atlantic trip, there's a good chance I'll go business eastbound, which is the direction you want to sleep, and it's exit row economy Westbound, which isn't too horrible as you want to stay awake. Plus I still make a small profit of air miles.  The big issue is that if the flight ends up with business class fully sold, upgrades don't happen, which can be an issue of I have to be functional upon arrival. I try to pick my flights with the "available seats" map in mind.

As to the Challenge Coin, it's been kicked around for a while, but I have never been able to come up with a good award criterion.