Most stops in a single flight?
 

Looking at a few routes in the Caribbean, I see 5 stops on 8B792 from Grenada to Tortola (Caribbean Star). In these days of point to point carriers, is this the most stops on a single flight (no change of plane), or are there ones with even more out there?

too much time on my hands...
 

8B792 originates in Port of Spain, so that makes 6 imtermediate stops before Tortola...

It will not break the record for stops but I remember spending a VERY long day on a UA DC8-70 EWR-ORD-DEN-LAX-Maui-Kauai in the late 1980s, notable amongst other things for the crew changing in to Hawaiian uniform in LAX!

I can't believe I'm doing this...
 

According to next month's OAG, seven sectors is indeed the record, shared by:
Caribbean Star - as quoted
Air Creebec (Canada)
Air Labrador
Wideroes (Norway)
Airlines of Papua New Guinea
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: (Australia)

I'll get me anorak...

Oops..

What happens if I type M@cair?

It is easy to understand why a Caribbean operator might choose to operate over many over water sectors. But there is surely no more absurd illustration of the practice than the short lived and financially disastrous experiment of the late Channel Airways
( bankrupt in 1972). They operated what they called the Bus Stop Jet. For it they used a Viscount with the optimistic tail logo which said "Continental Golden Jet". The route was Portsmouth-Southend-Stansted-East Midlands-Leeds-Teeside-Newcastle-Edinburgh-Aberdeen. It never made any money and not even the most hardened Channel Airways pasengers would use it for such a gruelling journey. That airline was widely accepted as the worst British airline ever.

Being pedantic... and not having a pop at anyone as we all understand what Flightmapping means....

Surely there are no stops on a 'single flight' ?

You take off, and then you land?

:D

What's about meduim and long haul flights with many stops?
I recall there used to be (in 80s and early 90s) Aeroflot flights like Moscow-Cairo-Nairobi-Antananarivo-Johanesburg and similar to South America with stops in Europe, Mediterranian, Africa and then 1-2 stops in South America.

thegoaf
I recollect that the Channel Airways operation to which you refer was called 'The Scottish Flyer' and this was painted on the fuselage where one would expect 'Channel' to be.
I thought that it originated at Sarfend and could not imagine that even Channel would operate Viscounts out of Portsmouth which was grass, was it not?
Certainly, a couple of (Channel?) 748s went off the end on one single wet day there!
Could be wrong, though!

Thirty years ago Northwest Airlines (USA) had a daily flight as: Seattle, Spokane, 3 stops in Montana, Pierre (South Dakota), MSP, DCA. It was operated with a 727 IIRC. Coast to coast with only 7 sectors. I rode it from one of the Montana stops to DCA.

ehm , well 6 leg rotations are not uncommon with vlm-airlines. I did 2 years ago a 7 legged on , including an unforeseen landing due to technical.

regards

Also didn't British Airways, or more likely perhaps BOAC, run a VC-10 ex-Manchester via Prestwick, to New York, Miami and then 2-3 Caribbean destinations ?

oscarh

Yes two 748's did go ogg the grass runway in a singlre day. The grass had not be properly cut as I remember. However the source of my information about the Scottish Flyer was "Brtiish Independent Airlines since 1946" written by Tony Merton Jones. It even includes the phrase "on October 9, 1967 1-11 G-AVGP operated a proving flight over this route(with the exception of Portsmouth). It also says that 748's were used and this would have enabled Portsmouth to be included. I agree that even Channel would have found Viscount operations to have been impossible at Portsmouth.

Historically the possible winner was Pan Am\'s Round the World flight from JFK. PA1 went eastbound and PA2 went westbound. Can anyone recall the exact points of call?

Don't SWA have some pretty long cross-country routes - for example WN405 is PHL-MCO-MSY-PHX-SAN

And you don't have to get off and re-check your bags each time.

thegoaf

Don't know PanAm routing, but United round-the world UA001 was (correct me if I'm wrong) IAD-LHR-DEL-HKG-LAX-IAD, UA002 was the same stops but in opposite direction.

Without a doubt the most exotic routing ever was Qantas 581 (IIRC) which used to leave Heathrow on a Saturday midday and route via Bermuda, Nassau, Mexico City, Acapulco, Papeete and Nandi to Sydney.

Sorry for posting twice in succession...

A bit of random rummaging through some old ABCs turned up the following:

PA1 routing varied season to season and also day to day.
In Summer 76 it flew
SFO – TYO – HKG – BKK – DEL or KHI – THR – FRA – LON – NYC – SFO and depending on the day called at IST as well (but terminated at NYC)

In Summer 69 it flew:
LAX – HNL – TYO – HKG – BKK – [RGN] – CCU or DEL – KHI or THR – BEY – IST – FRA – LON – NYC - LAX

Also S69, BA537 flew MAN – PIK – NYC – ANU – BGI – POS – GRG
They also had a 9-sector flight to Australia:
BA720 LON – ZRH – BEY – KHI – CCU – KUL – SIN – DRW – BNE – SYD

Also in S69 Channel Airways CW02 is shown as originating SEN and calling at Luton, not Stansted, otherwise as detailed by thegoaf.