A flight every day
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DavidGordon10ParticipantThis is a Friday topic for the long weekend.
I know that I do not travel much by the standards of some on this forum – but I was struck by a four day trip I did a couple of weeks ago. LHR-CPH-PRG-ZRH (then train to) GVA-LHR. That is four flights in four days, one flight every day.
Then last weekend I was on a six day trip, the flights being LHR-FRA-PHL-FRA-IST-VIE-LHR – six flights is six days. Not a flight every day, but a steady one/day average. I had another six day trip with a simiar itinerary earlier this year
What is your record? What is the highest number of days you have done nonstop with an average of one flight/day, and (more difficult) what is the longest run of days you have done without a single day without a flight? My score is 6 and 4 – yours?
18 Apr 2014
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NameRemoved-18/12/14ParticipantDavid, I have a major problem with double negatives, especially on a Friday evening!
My ‘heaviest’ schedule was probably a trip to Peru and Colombia lasting no more than 2 weeks.
Belfast to Lima via LHR, JFK and MIA.
Lima to Trujillo return.
Lima to Cartagena via Bogota return.
Lima Cuzco Arequipa Lima.
Lima MIA LHR Belfast.
I think that makes 16 flights?
18 Apr 2014
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first_class_pleaseParticipantI quite often do 4 flights in a day / 24 hours.
With land borders I was once in 7 countries in 24 hours.
One of them three times, another twice and two others once.
19 Apr 2014
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LuganoPirateParticipantMy longest itinerary:
Cotonou – Abidjan – Paris – AMS – ZRH – Dubai – Bombay (as it was then) – Singapore – Hong Kong – Singapore – Colombo – Male – Bahrein – Zurich – AMS – London – Rotterdam – Paris – New York – Paris – Rotterdam – (by car) Amsterdam – Zurich – Douala – Libreville – Kinshasa – Luanda – Lome – Cotonou.That’s 29 sectors and several of those flights had stopovers, so several more landings and takeoffs involved, all on one ticket and flown in 8 weeks.
Most flights in one day is 4 on day trips to, for example, Vienna, London, AMS. All ex LUG or MXP via ZRH.
Then, 7 flights in 48 hours. MXP ZRH LCY ZRH MXP (dash home to change) then MXP ZRH JNB GRJ (George).
My longest journey, distance wise, was in February, CPT JNB FRA JFK FRA JNB GRJ. 6 flights in 7 days.
Longest time between flights was about 4 years when an irrational fear of flying overcame me. I was due to fly AMS – CPH, sitting in my seat, doors closed when they reopened and a flight engineer came on board to check out a tech fault. 20 minutes later we were off, ready to takeoff on runway, when run was aborted and we returned to the gate. 1 hour later we were cleared to leave when I just knew the plane was going to crash and we’d all die!
I stood up and said I was getting off. Stewardess said no go back, I said no, I’m getting off. She said sit down or I’ll call,the police. I said good, call them, as I’m convinced this plane will crash, they’ll arrest me but at least I’ll be off the plane. Quick chat with Captain, door opened and off I went a free man.
Plane did not crash, I didn’t fly for four years, during which I lost my Circle Club card with Swiss as well as my very high status cards with KLM and UTA.
19 Apr 2014
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IanFromHKGParticipantMy silliest itinerary was as follows:
Day 1: HKG-LHR
[Two days with UK family]
Day 4: LHR-DXB
Day 5: DXB-LHR-JFK
Day 6: LGA-CLT
[Three days of meetings]
Day 10: CLT-DFW-LAS-MIA (arriving Day 11)
Day 11: MIA-LGA
Day 12:JFK-HKGNot quite a flight a day – 10 flights in 12 days, but an awful lot of miles! And in fact my dim recollection is that the LHR-DXB-LHR flight stopped somewhere along the way, which would bring it back up to 12 flights and one a day.
The worst bit, though, was the part bouncing around America (as you might have gathered, although there were substantive reasons for the trip, quite a few of the flights were added on as a mileage run). That was four flights completed in 21 hours, most of the way across the breadth of America and back. To my utter amazement, my bags were not only checked through on all four segments, but made it as well!! AA were much more co-operative than BA, who refused to check my bags LHR-DXB-LHR-JFK, and also refused to hold the bags for the LHR-JFK segment, so I had to clear immigration and customs at DXB and check my bags back in. Grrrr….
Total scheduled flight time: 67 hours 15 minutes. Overall time spent getting to airports, being in airports, and being on planes – well, I’m not sure, but I am guessing somewhere north of 100 hours. So if you take out the five days when I wasn’t travelling, 14.5 hours a day or more on average.
25 Apr 2014
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SenatorParticipantMy longest and most difficult trip..
Thursday: SJU-EWR
Friday: JFK-ZRH
Saturday: ZRH-ARN
home for 45min to shower and change
Saturday: ARN-CPH and CPH-BKK
Sunday: BKK-TPE
Wednesday: TPE-BKK, BKK-CPH
Thursday: BKK-ARN
Sunday: ARN-VIE, VIE-DEL
Sunday, week later: DEL-VIE, VIE-ARN
Longest in terms of distance covered in shortest timeA normal week for me used to be:
ARN-LHR on Monday morning, LHR-MAD on Monday night
MAD-ZRH on Tuesday night
ZRH-CDG on Wednesday night
CDG-STR on Thursday night
STR-FRA-ARN on Friday nightUsed to do this once a month
25 Apr 2014
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Charles-PParticipantI had a requirement a few years ago to depart Heathrow late evening, fly overnight to Joburg, meet all day with a client and then depart that evening for an overnight flight back to London. This I did twice a month for six months. Dam near killed me !
25 Apr 2014
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Gin&TonicParticipantI did something similar once, Man-Sin-Man, departed Man in the morning arrived Sin following morning, had a shower, changed met the customer, did a presentation, took the customer for dinner and then back to the airport for the return flight Sin-Man that night. Seemed a good idea at the time, what an idiot!
25 Apr 2014
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travelsforfunParticipantProbably my craziest itinerary was a couple of months ago:
Day 1 : LCY-LIN-AHO
Day 3 : AHO-FCO
Day 4 : FCO-LCY
Day 5 : SOU-JER
Day 6 : JER-LGW…LHR-LAX-SFO
Day 8 : SFO-SEA
Day 11: SEA-SLC-SNA…LAX-PHX-MIA
Day 12: MIA-PTY
Day 16: PTY-MIA-IAH
Day 17: IAH-SLC-OAK
Day 18: SFO-DFW-YYZ-LHRThat was 21 flights in 18 days – and a fair amount of zig-zagging.
28 Apr 2014
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