Your longest plane ride ever (travel dick measuring thread)?

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.

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

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.

Doog_de_Jour said:

PurpleThrobber said:

An entire thread on airline travel and not a damned Mile High Club story.

Fuck all y'all.

I’ll be able to contribute more in the upcoming train ride thread.

Same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nv9cvWfSLc

YellowSnow said:

PurpleThrobber said:

An entire thread on airline travel and not a damned Mile High Club story.

Fuck all y'all.

Are you 6'5" or not @PurpleThrobber ?

Yes - and fuck those airline bathrooms where the fuselage curves in and you have to take a pee all bent off to one side or the other.

PurpleThrobber said:

YellowSnow said:

PurpleThrobber said:

An entire thread on airline travel and not a damned Mile High Club story.

Fuck all y'all.

Are you 6'5" or not @PurpleThrobber ?

Yes - and fuck those airline bathrooms where the fuselage curves in and you have to take a pee all bent off to one side or the other.

Yeah, I’ve always been curious how the Mile High Club happens for anyone that’s taller than average. Plus public restrooms (nevermind *airplane* restrooms) are disgusting.

Doog_de_Jour said:

PurpleThrobber said:

YellowSnow said:

PurpleThrobber said:

An entire thread on airline travel and not a damned Mile High Club story.

Fuck all y'all.

Are you 6'5" or not @PurpleThrobber ?

Yes - and fuck those airline bathrooms where the fuselage curves in and you have to take a pee all bent off to one side or the other.

Yeah, I’ve always been curious how the Mile High Club happens for anyone that’s taller than average. Plus public restrooms (nevermind *airplane* restrooms) are disgusting.

A redeye flight and a blanket are preferred.

Flight to Roma. Layover and tarmac marathon at JFK. I don't know the hours. It feld like three fucking days and I was within an eyelash of being one of those guys that makes the plane go back to the gate and where I'd be met by the Marshals.

To add insult to injury, as tempting as it was to assuming the Italians lost our luggage for two days (you know what I mean if you've ever flown into or out of Italy), it was actually the same assholes at JFK who fucked that up. So despite that fact that we were hours late taking off, those idiots still couldn't find a way to get our bags on.

My worst day of flying:

I was in Switzerland for work and was coming back to Texas for the weekend prior to heading back to Seattle

6 am or whatever flight out of Zurich ... so was up and leaving the hotel at about 4 am or thereabouts so operating on effectively no sleep after a late work related dinner the night before

Short flight from Zurich to Dusseldorf with a bit of a layover allowing time to hit up the Duty Free (always recommended when flying through Europe)

Dusseldorf to I believe JFK in New York scrunched between a bunch of big German dudes in coach (not a great idea) with a massive headwind

Because overhead vs checked baggage rules are messed up between US travel vs European travel, had to pick up my "carry on" baggage from baggage claim going through customs only to go back through security for the domestic flight

After that fiasco and grabbing lunch I'm largely punch drunk as I board the last leg of the flight to DFW ... as I'm boarding the plane the terrible customer service at American Airlines appears and tells me that I need to measure my carry on bag (sidenote: I travel a lot, I know exactly how much I can put in my bag while having it fit in the overhead bins ... I've never ONCE had a problem with my bag fitting) ... I don't exactly remember if it was due to some of the items that I was bringing back from Europe or how I packed my bag separating clean vs dirty clothes but there was a tad of overhand and they insisted that I check the bag at the gate. For anybody that has ever flown through DFW and AA with checked bags, you know that they aren't exactly known for prompt delivery so I'm livid pissed at this point. Eventually get to DFW, took about 45 minutes to get my bag, then go get my rental car, and get to the family compound. All in all I think it probably was close to about a 24 hour day on no sleep.

Honorable Mention Experience:

My first trip to Europe for work I was flying from DFW to Zurich with about a 5 hour layover in Philadelphia. I wasn't checking bags so I think I had like a 9:30 am flight from DFW so I showed up to print out my boarding pass at around 8 to 8:15 as I had no reason to worry about going through security. Go to print out my boarding pass and it's basically giving me an error message. Go up to an agent and explain that I'm trying to check in for my flight to Philadelphia and I'm getting all kind of strange error messages. She pulls up my itinerary and proceeds to chew me out for not being over 2 hours early for my "international" flight. I responded by saying that nowhere was that information provided to me given and given that this leg of my flight was from DFW to Philly with a long layover there's no real reason for me to have thought that this leg of the flight was "international." She spent about 5 minutes chewing me out and telling me that I can't get to Philadelphia, that it's too late to check my luggage, etc. I laughed and said all I was taking was carry on baggage and I don't really see where there is an issue with a boarding pass, going through security, and boarding a plane when I had nothing to check. She finally eyeballed what I had with me and realized that I was right, huffed, and printed out a boarding pass.

RaceBannon said:

1to392831weretaken said:

My longest flight, now that I think about it, was Bellingham to San Diego. Was supposed to be about 2 1/2 hours, but instead the runway at San Diego was fogged in, so we circled until nearly out of fuel and then were diverted to Palm Springs. I didn't know this, but I do now: You can't just land a plane at an airport and unload. These transactions are negotiated in advance, so a surprise landing is kind of a big deal. We sat on the runway for two hours waiting for an agent from the airline to meet with the an agent for the airport to negotiate for fuel. Then, once fueled, there were more negotiations to figure out if we could get off the plane. After hour three--with a six year old and an eight year old to entertain in an aluminum tube--they let us get out and explore the now closed airport. No food available, no booze available. Couldn't rent a car and just drive the couple hours to San Diego, as the rental car desks were closed and the airline hadn't negotiated for baggage handlers to unload the plane.

After about an hour, it was back on the plane. The gate attendants told us they were packing it in and flying us to Vegas for the night. The pilot told us he was going to take one more shot at San Diego, which he did. Successfully.

Took off from Bellingham at some time around noon, landed in San Diego after 11:00. /csb

Sounds like there were some logistics involved in the whole episode

Poor planning by the dispatcher to not have filed the flight plan with a viable alternate. Put enough fuel on the airplane that the plane can divert from San Diego to Las Vegas, where the airport is always open.

That's logistics.