Originally Posted by
Globaliser
If my travel ever feels like it's becoming a battle, I'm just going to stay at home. In my (leisure travel) book, travel should be for fun - not for stress, obssession and total control-freakery. If I were getting up at 0300 just to secure award tickets, my family and friends would be thinking about getting me hospitalised - and rightly so.
That's fair. To each their own. My family certainly doesn't complain when we are sitting in the Concorde Room, or when the four of us fly CX F to HKG, occupying 2/3 of the cabin. None of this would be possible if I refused the 3am inventory checks. Im frankly shocked that anybody on FT would criticize somebody about the effort they go through to procure comfortable transit. But frankly, it is people that avoid stress and obsession that make my life easy.