In 24hrs my record is 7 in Kenya bush flying in a Caravan, shortest hop in the Mara of 7 miles longest about 80 miles, in fact all done in about 5hrs , As for proper flying it would be 6 down to Santiago back on the old Bcal 707,s.
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Not as a punter, but in 1989 as crew I flew LTN-GCI-SOU-JER-GCI-SOU-GCI-JER-LTN in a Bac 11-475.
Does that count :mad: |
Six in Cessna 172 G-BKEV is my record in one 24 hour period.
Guernsey-Alderney Alderney-Cherbourg Cherbourg-Caen Caen-Flers,St. Paul Flers,St. Paul-Dinard Dinard-Guernsey |
Long Haul and Long Way
May 1981
I arrived at Heathrow to see my SAA 747 Non-stop London to Cape Town flight climbing into a bright blue evening sky. On a full fare ticket British Airways were able to book me on a flight leaving 2 hours later, so first leg London to Nairobi, second leg Nairobi to Johannesburg, in a 747. In Johannesburg SAA put me on the "stop at all stations" to Cape Town. That's when the fun started, Johannesburg - Bloemfontein - Kimberley - East London - Port Elizabeth - Cape Town 12 hours late getting home, 23 hours on an aeroplane. But that was not the longest flight January 1997 Brisbane - Sydney - Bangkok - London on a British Airways 747, sitting in the same seat for 25 hours. |
Longest flights.
I managed Davao - Manila - Doha - Manchester - Lanzarote in approx 40 hours, other was Manchester - Amsterdam - Beijing - Xiamen - Manila, all 35 hours...
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Not so long ago, on an A330, MAN-NCL-EDI-GLA-PIK-GLA-EDI-NCL-MAN. Took about 9 hours, all full-stop landings. Admittedly I am a qualified A330 pilot, but on that day I never sat in either seat, therefore technically a passenger. Go figure.
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Nine sectors 8 May 1982
Just checked back and can claim nine sectors - it would have been eight but for an unserviceable BCAL 1-11 resulting in my GLA-LGW flight dropping into MAN to cover a MAN-LGW service.
LHR-GLA G-AWYZ Trident 3 GLA-INV-KOI-LSI-KOI-INV-GLA G-AOYM Viscount V806 GLA-MAN-LGW G-AYOP Bac 1-11 Series 530 What would I give now to enjoy a flight again on those three aircraft types ……. plus the VC-10 and Concorde of course! The Viscount flights marked the last day of operation of a BA Viscount and I can still remember us skimming by the Old Man of Hoy at cliff top height on a beautiful sunny afternoon. It clearly whetted my appetite for last BA flights as since then I have managed the Trident 3 flying MAN-LHR (31 December 1985) when a simultaneous landing with another BA Trident 3 occurred at LHR - officially the MAN-LHR flight landed one second after the AMS-LHR charter flight. Boeing 757 EDI-LHR (30 October 2010). Boeing 737-400 TRN-LGW (30 September 2015) and more recently Boeing 767-300 LCA-LHR (25 November 2018). |
I can't recall exactly but I used to do a lot in the US ages ago. Not so many sectors in a day in Asia but I'd guess 6 in a day being the limit. In terms of a number of flights in a year I did ~80 one year but I was younger and loved it. Now I'd rather do far fewer trips & I wish I could afford to travel at the front...
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This doesn't quite match up to the best of you, but I seem to remember when my grandparents went to New Zealand they went something like this...
Out: LHR - SFO - PPT - (AKL?) - CHC Back: CHC - PER- (SIN?) - BOM - LHR This was with Air New Zealand using a 747-200. Somehow I think this took more than 24 hours. I may be slightly off on the stops though. This was 35+ years ago and I was a wee bairn at the time... Personally the best I've done is LHR - CDG - ORY (ground transport) - RUN or CHC - AKL - LAX - LHR. The last one took WAY more than 24hrs because the stupid idiot travel agent booked me onto a 10am tranfer from CHC to AKL for a flight that didn't leave until 22:00... |
Originally Posted by RoyHudd
(Post 10417626)
Not so long ago, on an A330, MAN-NCL-EDI-GLA-PIK-GLA-EDI-NCL-MAN. Took about 9 hours, all full-stop landings. Admittedly I am a qualified A330 pilot, but on that day I never sat in either seat, therefore technically a passenger. Go figure.
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Originally Posted by GAXLN
(Post 10417904)
Just checked back and can claim nine sectors - it would have been eight but for an unserviceable BCAL 1-11 resulting in my GLA-LGW flight dropping into MAN to cover a MAN-LGW service.
LHR-GLA G-AWYZ Trident 3 GLA-INV-KOI-LSI-KOI-INV-GLA G-AOYM Viscount V806 GLA-MAN-LGW G-AYOP Bac 1-11 Series 530 What would I give now to enjoy a flight again on those three aircraft types ……. plus the VC-10 and Concorde of course! The Viscount flights marked the last day of operation of a BA Viscount and I can still remember us skimming by the Old Man of Hoy at cliff top height on a beautiful sunny afternoon. It clearly whetted my appetite for last BA flights as since then I have managed the Trident 3 flying MAN-LHR (31 December 1985) when a simultaneous landing with another BA Trident 3 occurred at LHR - officially the MAN-LHR flight landed one second after the AMS-LHR charter flight. Boeing 757 EDI-LHR (30 October 2010). Boeing 737-400 TRN-LGW (30 September 2015) and more recently Boeing 767-300 LCA-LHR (25 November 2018). |
Originally Posted by Cymmon
(Post 10420299)
That is class, GLA-PIK is seriously short haul for the 332, I'm assuming that model as a UK based airline....
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Two memorable trips: Las Vegas-Los Angeles-London-Edinburgh and Ankara-Istanbul-London -Edinburgh. Both exhausting. |
TPA-BGR-LGW (seated in a rear toilet because the flight and all jumpseats were full), 2 hours in LGW, then LGW/LAX during which the crew asked me to assist overpowering a troublesome pax.
or: MAN/LCA/MAN/LTN/LCA/LTN/MAN (escorting football supporters from north of the border) and then a crew bus MAN/CWL, all I can remember about the crew bus journey was the empty beer cans rolling around the floor! |
1960 ( I think) In a Britannia.. Bahrein, Kuwait, Bagdad, Damascus, Athens, Rome, London..
I was travelling in First and the pilot banked when going around Mont Blanc to give the passengers a better view, unfortunately this caused most of the breakfasts to slide onto the deck. The bollocking the Senior Stewardess gave the Pilot was worth listening to!! |
My first trip to Houston in 1971, three months after arriving in Calgary.
A Western Airlines 732 (or possibly a 720) - Calgary, Great Falls, Billings, Denver and then a Trans Texas (known as Tinkertoy Airlines or Tree Top Airlines) DC-9-10 - Denver, San Antonio, Houston. A long day. Years later, leaving Houston on a Continental DC-10, there was a company DC-10 at the adjacent gate, going to Los Angeles, Honolulu, Fiji, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne. I'm glad I was just going to Denver. |
Mt Isa - Brisbane - Sydney - Christchurch - Dunedin - Invercargill
All the more memorable because of the temperatures on departure - landing 44 deg C - 34 - 24 - 14 - ?? - 4 deg C I remember standing OUTSIDE Invercargill terminal waiting for the tractor drawn baggage trolley and damned near destroying my luggage so I could get to some warm clothing. |
Back in the day and including Caribbean Island hoppers and Gulf air F27 flights in the 70s
LHR-Cyprus Addis Ababa Khartoum Seychelles. HKG- Rangoon-Calcutta Rome LHR BDA-JFK-MIA- San Juan -St Martin-Antigua Montserrat-Antigua- St Lucia-Barbados -JFK-BDA Doha-Bahrain -Amman -Istanbul AMS Muscat-Dubai-Doha-Bahrein. Longest distance in a 24 hours maybe plus a couple EWR- DEN United DC8 -30, DEN- SFO United DC8-50 -SFO-LHR BA 747-200, as you might imagine that was not really planned, I was going home from Dallas but due to a family bereavement my colleague could not make the Denver meeting he but not I was due to go to had a sudden bereavement so I made good use of the time difference across the states leaving EWR at about 7 am getting to Denver around 0930, meeting and a quick lunch Denver to SFO arriving about 4pm for a flight about 6pm to London arriving early afternoon. I wouldnt fancy doing that at my age now. and security would have made it unlikely as well. |
Not quite in one day, but a single trip without time outside an airport.... MEX-IAH-MIA-LHR-KBV-AMS-FCO.
Long story, But not as long as the bag tag on my suitcase. And yes, it made it :) TA |
Is that KBV as in Krabi, Thailand? Now that's an impressive itinerary!
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