Winning the game

After a busy year of a lot of travel for work, I wanted to take my family to visit Chile and spend some time together. For under 500,000 miles I got five roundtrip tickets from SAT-ATL-SCL during the holidays. Then I used global upgrade certificates from two years to get all five of us upgraded to Delta One for ATL-SCL. It’s just a flight, and it feels really weird having younger kids up front (and still a bit peculiar being there myself). But if feels like I’m winning the SkyMiles game that I’ve played for a while to get us all a better night’s sleep en route to Santiago and $20k or so worth of tickets for exactly $0.

And I will enjoy it now because we’ll definitely be in the back of the plane on the way home…