The Redeye Perk — A Travel Game That Still Pays Off

The Redeye Perk — A Travel Game That Still Pays Off

Business journey will get simpler—and dare I say, even enjoyable—while you gamify it. Especially while you’re a street warrior spending lengthy stretches alone.

One of the video games I nonetheless play is what I name The Redeye Perk.

Anytime I take a redeye flight, I rely the resort evening I didn’t use as “toy money.” It’s a behavior that goes again many years—to the pre-liberalized India period, when enterprise vacationers had been restricted to $100/day, masking the whole lot from motels and meals to native journey. We even needed to file detailed reviews to the RBI explaining the place each greenback went.

So I began saving the resort value from in a single day flights to bask in a small deal with—tech devices, little luxuries, one thing only for me. I nonetheless keep in mind shopping for my first Pebble smartwatch that manner. And the Trio telephone.

This week, I flew a midnight redeye from Perth and landed at 6:30 a.m. in a freezing Sydney. I nearly toughed it out—however then remembered my little sport. I dipped into the perk fund and acquired myself a correct overcoat.

Years from now, I’ll nonetheless keep in mind this flight each time I put on that coat.

It’s a small ritual. But it retains the journey playful—and makes each mile significant.

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