The return trip from Europe requires staying up for about 24 hours, leaving in the morning and arriving home in the late evening with a seven-hour time difference. Once we checked in for our flight, we were directed to the pre-clearance line for U.S. customs and immigration. That was the first time we have used our Global Entry passes. They did save a little bit of time, but not a lot on this trip. The Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Chicago, was okay, but n...

Flight from Albuquerque to Houston and from Houston to London were uneventful and on time. The trip through Heathrow from arrival gate to the departure gate was long and involved multiple queues to wait through. Although we had the fast pass through immigration as a perk of flying business class, we still had to go through a number of other lines that made the three hour layover there be just about right. We walked and walked, went up and down escalators and outs...

Left Singapore on a 7 a.m. flight. Stopped in Tokyo and had time to buy a few more candies at the duty-free shop to take back to friends. Ended up with only an hour and fourteen minutes between flights. We hustled through the process of going through immigration, grabbing our luggage to take through customs, dropping it back off to be checked through for the last flight home, changing terminals (but thankfully it was just one away), waiting in line for security c...