The one consolation was that the rental was basically free using Hertz points. We left home around dinner time, arriving at SFO around 10:40 PM. If Delta flew up to our local airport, I surely would have tried to tack on a connecting segment. Flying economy for such an itinerary sounds miserable. This makes it an ideal candidate for splurging for business class, as we would be able to sleep a good chunk of the 13-hour trek and wake refreshed to start the day. The single daily China Airlines nonstop out of SFO departs during the middle of the night and arrives in Taipei around 6:00 AM. Given the typical cost of the flight, I was getting over 2.6 cents per SkyMile. The easiest was using 85,000 Delta SkyMiles and $5.60 per person for the nonstop, which isn’t all that bad, considering what other programs charge. There aren’t many great ways to book SkyTeam business class flights over the Pacific (at least no crazy deals I know of). Back in May my son and I flew China Airlines 777-300ER business class as our outbound flight to Taiwan for a brief father-son trip over Memorial Day.