Looking at Spain Trip
It looks like I'm going to have a trip to Spain coming up for work. Trying to figure out if my wife can come along. We have to figure out if someone can watch our daughter for the better part of a week, which is not a minor obstacle. The next hurdle is using miles for my wife's flight. The first option I looked at had a flight to Chicago, then to Dusseldorf, Germany, then to Spain (but not the final destination). 4 flights - ugh. There were options with 5 flights, even. The return had the same route, but the Dusseldorf layover was an overnight layover (like 10 PM to 10 AM the next day). Sleep in the airport? Go through customs in Germany for a 7 hour sleep in a hotel bed? Ugh. If I change things up a bit by going to another destination in Spain, then the options are much better. There's still an overnight stay on the way home, but it's in London, and the flight to London arrives a little after noon. So we could go through customs in London (where we at least speak the...