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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,750 Founders Club
    If we’re counting layovers, I flew Seattle to Minnesota to St. Louis to LAX to Alaska to Japan to Seoul because the Army.

    Longest straight flight was either Frankfurt to SeaTac or Frankfurt to Chicago but with a thunderstorm and 2-3 hours of holding pattern followed by a stop in Toronto where we weren’t allowed to deplane.
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,878
    edited November 2020
    Los Angles to Tahiti 4,108 miles 8hrs 43 mins

    The trip back add 3.5 hours of sitting on the tarmac because of a fuel strike.

    Frankfurt to San Francisco 5691 miles 11 hrs 25 minutes

    Seattle to Tokyo 4777 9 hrs 54 minutes


    Best Flight;

    Oakland to Pittsburgh (small airport just outside), and back.
    It was on the companies corporate jet. I've never seen so much alcohol consumed on one flight, and it was only 8 people.


    Scariest flight;

    North Arkansas airport to San Francisco

    We sat on the ground as a big storm passed over. When we took off the pilot was swerving through the clouds as lighting was flashing all around us.

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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,800 Founders Club
    rodmansrage said:

    DawgsCanDance said:

    SFO to Singapore 8446 miles, 17 hours. 5 drinks, 5 movies

    i did the same flight and did it in business class on singapore air (nbd) probably had 3 slings before taekoff.


    i dont recall going through customs in sing and almost missed the return flight cause i was pounding johnnie gold in the sing air lounge at 6am.


    i havent flown 1st on sing/emirates/etc but air travel is pretty much downhill once you fly biz on a non-us carrier.
    Agreed, flew business class and as an added bonus I was treated like VIP royalty on my return flight because *tip to travellers on long flights* I still had like $80 in Singapore currency that I decided to spend at Starbucks at the Singapore airport on French style pastries for the crew... The starbucks people were thrilled with the idea so they threw in another 4 pastries [signapore is just like paris when it comes to gorgeous pastries] so I wound up with like 12 cool offerings for the large number of crew on the Dreamliner flight. Yes, the drinks were on the house.

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Doogles said:

    Swaye said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    Swaye said:

    YellowSnow said:

    I think @swaye is gonna win this one though.

    Nope. Hell you beat me. Longest single leg for me is LAX to Sydney. That said, it was 5.5 hrs to LAX from IAD (DC) with a layover. Painful.

    One year, 2017 I believe, I did the IAD to Tokyo (15 hours just shy of LAX-SYD I believe) to Singapore and back flight THREE FUCKING TIMS!!!!!

    It's 15 hours direct from Dulles to Tokyo, 5 hour layover, then another 7 to Singapore. It's 33 hours from home to hotel, and then do it all again in reverse 5 days later. And I did it 3 fucking tims in a calendar year. Lucky for me United splits that route with ANA, so at least on some legs I had hot Japanese geisha girls. Needless to say, I was Platinum 1K that year. I also did it all in lay flats in business class. Doing that flight back to back in coach is suicide worthy.
    What did you fly, and what was its fuel range? F15?
    F18

    About 500-600 miles depending on how you throttled it. It is not known for its legs.
    Your past life was pretty epic.

    From cockpit to cockroach, it's sad to see how far @Swaye has fallen.
    Kimosabe loves some cock
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    PurpleBaze said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    YellowSnow said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    4,835 miles

    Seattle to Copenhagen

    Something is rotten in a dirty rainy afternoon in Denmark?
    two-hour layover followed by a flight to De Gaulle in Paris
    I don’t think I’m allowed at De Gaulle anymore. The de_Jour sisters may or may not have set off a “minor” security incident in the main terminal.
    Okay, you can't leave us hanging like that.

    There's a great story there. Deserves own thread.
    One day. When you’re older.

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