Postby tifosi77 » Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:28 pm
One of the other admins of the Cook With Joule group is a career federal LEO, for a variety of agencies (mostly Treasury/Secret Service). His primary AO was Asia, specifically South and Southeast Asia. There was a period of time where he was basically 'commuting' between California and China, with multiple flights back and forth each week. He got to fly business class, and he said Cathay was his favorite, with Singapore a very close second.
He mentioned one trip when he was working out of the US embassy in Bangkok. He had to fly to Honolulu for some meeting or other on a Friday; because the international dateline is a fun thing, he worked all day Friday at his office in Thailand, flew to Narita to connect to HNL, got in early the same Friday morning local time in Hawai'i, worked all day there, did the meeting after work, then immediately got on a plane and flew the reverse route back to Thailand, where it was Sunday on arrival. So he had the same Friday twice, and more or less deleted the Saturday from his life within a contiguous 36-hour period.