❌ ✈️ Flying Sucks Now, Doesn’t It? ❌ ✈️

Remember the first few times you ever flew? Wasn’t it magical? It would be exciting. You would pack your bags and be ready to leave the night before. And the airport was part of the experience. It used to be this fun place. The destination before the destination.

Doesn’t it just suck now? Here is why I hate airports

The constant waiting. Waiting to check bags, waiting to clear security, waiting to board the plane. Arrive. Wait in the immigration line. Wait to collect bags. I hate waiting. It is unproductive. It is embarrassing. It is tiring. It’s draining. Especially when a lot of flights you take are at weird hours.

So how can you solve this problem? Especially as an international in the US?

Well... turns out, there are a few ways to optimize your airport experience here and I deep dived into all of them!

Global Entry, TSA-Pre, Star Alliance Gold, Miles, Points I talk about them all, and how to combine them to breeze through all the annoying parts of your airport experience and create compounding rewards that will come in handy later. With a little bit of effort and timing, you can truly unlock and amazing set of perks that will basically make every flight feel like a business class flight for you (At least at the airports).

I also give a hot take on why I am bullish on Air India Limited in the long run 🫨

A special shout out to Soumya Goel who got me into this whole status game early, so I could leverage all my MBA travel. And Professor Mohanbir Sawhney, whose rant about airplane loyalty programs (linked in the comments) inspired this post.

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