Wheels up Mon 21 Sep, 01:15. Leave for the airport Sunday ~22:00. Home Thu 15 Oct, 23:10. Tick as you go — saves in this browser.
Return is booked — and it is 14 October, not late November. KLM Z2DKPP, SFO 13:45 Wed 14 Oct via Amsterdam, into Bengaluru 23:10 Thu 15 Oct. Refundable, 2 pieces baggage. This is a 23-day trip. Carry three weeks of food, not ten. Load forex for three weeks. Insurance must run to 15 October.
Stay — 23 nights, 21 Sep to 14 Oct. Not 30, not 60. You land 22:40 Monday; arriving with nowhere booked is a bad first night.
VJML Jain meal. Cut-off is 24h before departure — Sunday 01:15. Without it there is nothing you can eat for 34 hours.
Online check-in is open now. T-48h passed at 01:15 today. Best seats go first.
KL 606 SFO 13:45 Wed 14 Oct → Amsterdam 09:05. KL 879 Amsterdam 10:05 → Bengaluru 23:10 Thu 15 Oct. Economy, confirmed, refundable, 2 pieces baggage, meals paid. Print it — the Bangalore check-in desk wants to see it.
Potrero Hill. 23 nights, 21 Sep to 14 Oct. Entire place, not a room — you cook. Confirm late self check-in, you arrive near midnight. The message to Tay asked about 60 nights; correct that to 23.
cathaypacific.com → Manage Booking → PNR F2E49B → Discover Meal Options. No meat, fish, egg, onion, garlic, root vegetables. Served before the trolley.
Open now. A350 (BLR–HKG) is 3-3-3, take A or K. 777-300ER (HKG–SFO) is 3-4-3, avoid the middle four. Pick a row with one seat taken.
immd.gov.hk. Free, minutes. Needed to leave the airport on your 15h20m layover. Print the slip — it must travel with the passport.
Free. ~9,500 miles on this trip. Retroactive claims are a hassle.
US hotels and car rentals place pre-auth holds that forex cards fail. Collect it and activate before you fly.
Back from Chennai. Check validity is at least 6 months past 21 September.
So the fraud engine does not freeze you in week three.
Fives, tens, twenties for tips. Restaurants 18–20%.
Windproof. SF is 23°C in September but the wind and fog are genuinely cold, and November drops to 10–17°C with rain. The one thing you cannot improvise.
Slippers will not carry ten weeks of customer meetings. Chinos and a good shirt is the SF ceiling — no suit needed.
Two t-shirts and two underwear means laundry every second day. Fine if deliberate — Uniqlo and Target are cheap there. Just decide now rather than discovering it in week one.
Checked. Outbound Cathay is 1 piece, 23kg. Return KLM is 2 pieces. Pack light going out; you have room coming back.
Cabin. 7kg limit.
Food is heavy. Excess baggage at the counter is priced punitively.
Power bank must be in cabin baggage, never checked.
Commercially packaged only. Loose from a sweet shop gets confiscated.
Allowed if sealed and labelled. Three weeks now, not ten — carry far less than planned.
Fresh produce, any meat in any form, fresh dairy and seeds are prohibited even in checked baggage.
Non-declaration is fined even when the item was allowed. Tick the food box and let them look. Nothing on your list is a problem if declared.
Liquids over 100ml go in the checked bag.
Original labelled packaging plus a doctor’s letter. Refilling a foreign prescription in the US is slow and expensive.
Paracetamol, antacid, plasters. Even over-the-counter is priced painfully there.
PNR F2E49B. Download the boarding pass offline.
Must travel with the passport. One without the other does not work.
Shown at the Bangalore check-in desk, not just at US immigration.
Company letter stating business purpose, proof of funds, accommodation confirmation, meeting invitations.
With the 24-hour assistance number. Minimum $100,000 plus evacuation.
Airport wifi fails at exactly the wrong moment.
Airalo or Holafly for landing day. Mint ($45 for 3 months) once you have a US address.
Note you are on Pacific time so a 12.5-hour delay is not read as being ignored.
Do not carry the cabin bag round the city. September is 28–31°C and humid.
Dedicated Jain menu. Sangeetha has branches in East TST and Central. Branto and Smrat also do Jain.
Plaza Premium at HKG has showers. On a 34-hour journey that is worth more than the lounge itself.
Airport Express is 24 min. Check the HK Observatory first — September is typhoon season and a T8 signal shuts the city.
Business meetings, six to ten weeks, return booked and may move. A short ticket does not cap your stay — the I-94 does.
After landing, on the CBP site. It governs your stay, and it is not always what you assumed.
Copy Kamlesh Mehta, 408-839-8996 — national president and SF chapter chair. The chapter meets Thursday 15 October and you fly out on the 14th. You miss it by one day. Ask for a one-to-one inside your dates instead, or move the return — your ticket is refundable. The Women’s Entrepreneur Mela on 11 October does fall inside your trip.
Typically early October, hundreds of parallel events on Luma. Lands inside your window and is the densest customer-discovery week you will get. Confirm the 2026 dates and block the calendar.
Tue 22 Sep through Tue 13 Oct. For 40–60 target accounts that means booking from week one, which makes the outreach you have not sent yet the thing that decides this trip.