How many flight sectors have you flown in one day as a passenger.
 

My record is 6, kirkwall-Westray-Papa Westray-North Ronsldsay-kirkwall-Edinbugh-Birmingham. I also managed 5 sectors in France on Caravelle 12, Dassault Mercure, A300B2 and 737-200QC aircraft.

Done a few multiples as a passenger in C152/C172 in the US - probably 8 or 9 was the most with several touch and goes at lesser airfields and longer stops for coffee/lunch/wee wees...

I have to go back to September 1981 when I flew 7 sectors in a day. They were: ABZ-EDI-LBA-DUB-LBA-AMS-EIN-MST. All sectors were flown on one type, the Fokker F-27. Five with Air-UK and two with NLM CityHopper.

LGW-BWI-MCI-OAK-LAX-HNL-KOA

CDG-FRA-SXM-SJU-BGI

Both of these marathons were the result of getting 'bargain' priced tickets and being too excited by the savings until the true cost became all too clear! The 7 sector one wasn't evident on the ticket, only showing the 3 flight numbers, that was a lesson learnt.

end of March 1980 coming home to UK after a months leave (I worked for BMA on our 707's at KHI leased to PIA for a bit then took my leave, ended up in the exotic Maldives)

Male-CMB UL 737-200 Air Lanka just been formed (late afternoon) got F U/G

CMB-KHI PIA DC-8-53 leased from Cargolux LX-IDB (landed middle of the night)

KHI-DXB-FCO-FRA-ORY-LHR PIA 747-200 (ex TAP bird) Got F U/G at DXB

(We left KHI at 07.30 and got to London early evening, so almost 24 hours travelling)

(came down from KHI to CMB on a PIA 720B)

All on free tickets

I can only think of 4 and on 4 occasions:

KOI-WRY-PPW-NRL-KOI
CWL-EDI-DUB-PHL-TPA (not all the same date but within 24 hours)
RKV-AEY-GRY-AEY-RKV
CFN-DUB-LHR-GVA-ZRH

4 sectors
 

LTN-DOL-CBG-DUB-LTN and a few days later the reverse.

1984 Hong Kong-Singapore-Jakarta-Bali-Sydney-Melbourne. Overnight, same Qantas 747 throughout, top deck. Cockpit visit between Sydney & Melbourne.

Loved flying into Kia Tak a few times.

Gatwick - Guernsey for a meeting in St Peter Port
Guernsey - Jersey for a meeting in St Helier
Jersey - Gatwick - Dublin for more meetings there

Only 4 short sectors but a full on day of work mixed in with several trips through security. Granted, this was pre 9/11so much easier

ABZ HUY NWI and return.

Several times.

On one occasion for two sectors in an F27 jumpseat courtesy of a cousin. Nice.

I think I'm still winning. When do I get my prize? ;)

1969; Oslo, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Zurich, Lisboa, Caracas, couple of Carribean Islands (can't remember which ones), then finally Curacao.
OK, so not 24 hrs, around 36 if memory serves. Never had so many meals in such a short time.
Per

1975 Sydney-Melbourne-Perth-Singapore same BOAC 747. Think it was around 14hrs all up.

May'95 LGW-AUH-BKK-CGK-DPS all on Garuda, same 747-200 as far as CGK, then DC10 to DPS.
Left LGW around 7hrs late and then around 21hrs en-route!

This was start of RTW honeymoon - rest of route was CGK-DRW-CNS-AKL-NAN-HNL-LAX-LHR.

Mid/late 70s. LHR/AMS KLM connecting to Garuda AMS/FRA/ROM/BAH/BOM/BKK/JKT connecting to Garuda JKT/DPS making 8. If I'm to be honest that last flight might have taken it over 24 hours but I can't remember.

Hartington, I honestly don't think that you would get all those sectors inside the 24hr window. ;)

Okay I flew,Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport>Chicago O'Hare>New York Newark>Brussels International Airport>LHR>GLA

Perth, Morawa, Yalgoo, Mt. Magnet, Cue, Meekatharra, Wiluna, Sandstone, Mt. Magnet, Yalgoo, Morawa, Perth.

Very junior F/O, usually considered a passenger???, 3 crew, often left one engine running, always in summer for first and last light at Morawa.

Refuel and re-oil at Meekatharra, with the "nicer" Captains was a great way to learn.:

ok:

Once flying ATL-ABE-AVP the pilot said: "We are departing Atlanta for Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton and Wilkes Barre-Scranton-Avoca. Believe it or not that is only one stop".

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.
Cheers
Mr Mac

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...

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.

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...

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...

That is class, GLA-PIK is seriously short haul for the 332, I'm assuming that model as a UK based airline....

Fantastic array of aircraft, the only one I missed was the Trident.... Managed a Viscount but 700 series by Janus, Coventry to Beauvais.

Thanks. I was Safety Pilot on the jump seat while 4 newly-minted 330 guys did 2 sectors each, following their sim conversions. They were all excellent.

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!