My third day of calling Virgin Atlantic trying to get my return flight and it's still not released to them, today he even tried a new booking to make sure. So instead of coming home on Sat the 18th I'm coming home on Sun the 19th because that was good to go in biz
They couldn't even get the 18th in economy. The nice thing was he didn't charge me change fee because the return flight hadn't been available when I booked the outbound. This surprised me but I'll take it!
So now I have another night, but I think what I'll do is still fly back to Tokyo on the 18th and then stay 1 more night at the Tokyo Station Hotel because then I could leave my bag there instead of using luggage storage at the airport. And then I wouldn't have to worry about which airport I flew in or out of for any of my flights. Plus extra time in Tokyo since the flight home isn't until 9pm on the 19th.
Not going to book the extra night yet, I think I'm going to try for the Hilton biz next month since I'm $300 from hitting my gold spend that I got in mid August. I think just over 2 months is a bit close for trying again, right? Better to wait a few more weeks? I'm still using all of my amex cards except for my DL biz because I don't have a need for those miles at the moment and most of my spend is on groceries so that's going on asipre or gold, and then my recurring or flight stuff has been on my plat, plus some chase stuff. Not getting the chase biz has made me rethink pouring all my MR's into hilton for that as I could use them for other parts of the trip.