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Oct 28, 2018 | 11:14 pm

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pudgym29

Join Date: Jan 2006

Location: Chicago, IL., U.S.A.

Programs: Global Entry · WN, UA, AS, AA, DL, NH; IHG, Wyndham, Hilton, Best Value Inn, Marriott, Ramada

Posts: 649

It is very personal, just as it should be.

It really depends on your body's tolerance. I can fall asleep on the westbound #77 Belmont bus, and that is a 25-minute ride from where I board to where I alight. Yet, sometimes at late night, I fall asleep and do not awake until miles away from where I should have alighted.

I generally have to wait for that bus to make its return run.

I have made a TPAC flight from Chicago to Tokyo numerous times. In 2011 {the trip when I did not bring enough U.S. money}, I landed at HND at 5:30 am. I could not go to my hostel in Yokohama for another five hours or so. I somehow managed to sit in HND for awhile, changing my laptop's setting to Japan time, tweeting, etc..., purchasing the special train 'open tickets' only available there, until I was finally ready to head there.
Then, in April 2017, a non-stop flight from ORD to HND (NH111) was delayed for 90 minutes on the tarmac @ ORD due to rain. It arrived @ HND @ 10:10 pm. When I got through Customs and Immigration, it was approaching the time of the last train on many Tokyo subway lines. I dare say it was due to my previous visits (and stored money) to Japan that I got to my hostel in Shinjuku just after 24:00 hours ~ oh, and I did use HND's wi-fi network to e-mail the hostel that I was just now exiting Haneda - would it please await me?
I think the largest snag for me is that, on these TPAC flights, the meal times come at the wrong moments for a lengthy sleep. I really do not need two meals from Chicago to Tokyo. But I get them. And, since my FF profile specifies the Kosher meal {I'm not Jewish - but back in the 20th Century, when I set up my profile on most major airlines, and having had the episode of one too many ham, egg, & cheese sandwiches on a morning flight [the straw that broke the camel's back was an ORD-MCI flight {for indoor soccer} on American], I put down my special meal preference as Kosher.}, the crew wants to serve me my out-of-the-ordinary meal.

I surmise many of you are more frequent flyers than I (for the interim), so I would suggest you communicate with your carriers as to how you want to dine.

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