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Long airline flights anyone??
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Wow, with some of these flights you better really want or need to be there. I could not imagine being locked into an aluminum cigar tube for 18 hours...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/worlds-longest-flights-211655905.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/worlds-longest-flights-211655905.html
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The 1st trip was the Longest. Wrecked my dirt bike the Morning before I left. Chain locked up the rear wheel when I took a jump, So had crunched nuts from the landing. Try sitting on a long flight then.
We're booked May 4th, Newark direct to Bejing on a 777.
We upgraded to bulkhead seats (600/) because of bad backs. Business or 1st class would have meant another $4K per seat.
Unfortunately, it's Continental/United with a 4 out of 10 rating per the article. We could have opted for another airline and would have with this new info.
I should have researched best airlines but it was a packaged tour.
One way it's a sandwich, the other we get dinner.
I'm dreading the flight.
The trip was on a whim.
while sitting in a terminal isnt exactly the same as being on a plane since you can move around fairly freely, eat from a selection of vendors etc; being in transit is all very much alike and very draining.
it took me a day and a half to get from boston to punta arenas chile two years ago. that included spending the night on the sidewalk outside the airport in santiago, thoroughly drained and defeated.
on super long flights, i go to my doctor and get a few sedatives. sit down, get comfortable, eat something, take a pill and fade to black for a few hours. wake up, bathroom, food, take another pill. i find commercial air travel is exponentially easier to deal with if you're unconcious.
Oh boy! Now you tell me.
We're booked May 4th, Newark direct to Bejing on a 777.
We upgraded to bulkhead seats (600/) because of bad backs. Business or 1st class would have meant another $4K per seat.
Unfortunately, it's Continental/United with a 4 out of 10 rating per the article. We could have opted for another airline and would have with this new info.
I should have researched best airlines but it was a packaged tour.
One way it's a sandwich, the other we get dinner.
I'm dreading the flight.
The trip was on a whim.
Bring a respirator if you have any breathing problems.
I wouldn't go to China if someone gave me a free trip,.....don't take that personally BTW.[;)]
Worst trip was Milwaukee to Chicago-Pittsburgh-LA-Hawaii-Manila-Cebu (Philippines). With my 20 month old daughter, no less.
From here to Maylasia and back. 20 hours in flight each way. Made the trip once, won't do it again. I'll retire first.
i decided after my horror show boston to punta arenas experience that im not travelling internationally for work again unless i have enough money in my pocket to be independant for at least two days.
i went all the way to the bottom of the continent with a hundred bucks(usd) in my pocket. i didnt speak the language and after awhile i was no longer in contact with anybody outside of the airport. my cell phone died and i didnt have an appropriate adaptor. i maxed out my credit card making super long distance phone calls to the home office in seatle. when i finally got a local person to be in contact with, for some reason the airport pay phones suddenly wouldnt connect to his cell phone. i was alone with not much money in a country whos language i didnt speak and no way(for awhile) to get either to my destination or home. it was hands down the worst experience of my life.
just to top it all off, the local agent had gotten me a hotel room and sent another agent to the airport to find me and take me there. we never hooked up and thats how i ended up on the sidewalk. i finally made it to my destination, but that was more luck than anything else. i was quite honestly at my wits end. i was tapped. emotionally wasted and ready to crack. i havent cried in years, even the night when my best friend died in my arms and the nights that have followed; but i came DAMN close to a complete breakdown that night.
of course, this was my first real international travel boondogle. im sure people who are more worldly have been through the ringer more than once and have a plan. i was totally and completely lost and i decided that day that they could offer to pay me any amount of money in the world, but if i didnt have a plan in place to deal with problems that allowed me to sleep the nights before, im not going.
quote:Originally posted by dheffley
From here to Maylasia and back. 20 hours in flight each way. Made the trip once, won't do it again. I'll retire first.
i decided after my horror show boston to punta arenas experience that im not travelling internationally for work again unless i have enough money in my pocket to be independant for at least two days.
i went all the way to the bottom of the continent with a hundred bucks(usd) in my pocket. i didnt speak the language and after awhile i was no longer in contact with anybody outside of the airport. my cell phone died and i didnt have an appropriate adaptor. i maxed out my credit card making super long distance phone calls to the home office in seatle. when i finally got a local person to be in contact with, for some reason the airport pay phones suddenly wouldnt connect to his cell phone. i was alone with not much money in a country whos language i didnt speak and no way(for awhile) to get either to my destination or home. it was hands down the worst experience of my life.
just to top it all off, the local agent had gotten me a hotel room and sent another agent to the airport to find me and take me there. we never hooked up and thats how i ended up on the sidewalk. i finally made it to my destination, but that was more luck than anything else. i was quite honestly at my wits end. i was tapped. emotionally wasted and ready to crack. i havent cried in years, even the night when my best friend died in my arms and the nights that have followed; but i came DAMN close to a complete breakdown that night.
of course, this was my first real international travel boondogle. im sure people who are more worldly have been through the ringer more than once and have a plan. i was totally and completely lost and i decided that day that they could offer to pay me any amount of money in the world, but if i didnt have a plan in place to deal with problems that allowed me to sleep the nights before, im not going.
I did all my traveling back when I was much younger and things were a lot different, all over the world.
I have ZERO desire to travel at this point. Between the TSA, the airlines that can hold you hostage for hours on a non-moving plane, and all of the freaking nut jobs out there,....including pilots, and flight attendants now. No thanks.[;)]
quote:Originally posted by KEVD18
quote:Originally posted by dheffley
From here to Maylasia and back. 20 hours in flight each way. Made the trip once, won't do it again. I'll retire first.
i decided after my horror show boston to punta arenas experience that im not travelling internationally for work again unless i have enough money in my pocket to be independant for at least two days.
i went all the way to the bottom of the continent with a hundred bucks(usd) in my pocket. i didnt speak the language and after awhile i was no longer in contact with anybody outside of the airport. my cell phone died and i didnt have an appropriate adaptor. i maxed out my credit card making super long distance phone calls to the home office in seatle. when i finally got a local person to be in contact with, for some reason the airport pay phones suddenly wouldnt connect to his cell phone. i was alone with not much money in a country whos language i didnt speak and no way(for awhile) to get either to my destination or home. it was hands down the worst experience of my life.
just to top it all off, the local agent had gotten me a hotel room and sent another agent to the airport to find me and take me there. we never hooked up and thats how i ended up on the sidewalk. i finally made it to my destination, but that was more luck than anything else. i was quite honestly at my wits end. i was tapped. emotionally wasted and ready to crack. i havent cried in years, even the night when my best friend died in my arms and the nights that have followed; but i came DAMN close to a complete breakdown that night.
of course, this was my first real international travel boondogle. im sure people who are more worldly have been through the ringer more than once and have a plan. i was totally and completely lost and i decided that day that they could offer to pay me any amount of money in the world, but if i didnt have a plan in place to deal with problems that allowed me to sleep the nights before, im not going.
I did all my traveling back when I was much younger and things were a lot different, all over the world.
I have ZERO desire to travel at this point. Between the TSA, the airlines that can hold you hostage for hours on a non-moving plane, and all of the freaking nut jobs out there,....including pilots, and flight attendants now. No thanks.[;)]
I agree with both of you guys![;)]
the tsa is an inconvenience for sure, but its a necessary evil as our society currently exists(put a law on the books that negates their existence and i'll support it, but they're here and if you want/need to fly you're going to have to suck it up.
being in a plane sucks for sure, but again if you want to get somehwere in a timely manner you have to deal with it.
my only serious * is the problems with INTERNATIONAL travel. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me....
Seems like I always end up with someone sitting behind me with a persistent cough and they spend the whole fight showering me with their germs.[xx(]
Oh boy! Now you tell me.
We're booked May 4th, Newark direct to Bejing on a 777.
We upgraded to bulkhead seats (600/) because of bad backs. Business or 1st class would have meant another $4K per seat.
Unfortunately, it's Continental/United with a 4 out of 10 rating per the article. We could have opted for another airline and would have with this new info.
I should have researched best airlines but it was a packaged tour.
One way it's a sandwich, the other we get dinner.
I'm dreading the flight.
The trip was on a whim.
I hate United, but loved Continental - unfortunitely they are now one in the same. Flew millions of miles. I never liked bulkhead seats because I have long legs and you can't straighten out. If I couldn't be in 1st or an exit row, I always liked a seat on the back row of a section in the forward part of the plane. They recline the same as the others and no one behind you. I believe the 777 is that way also, but you should check on line....
I've always known that in many ways women are much tougher than men, and I am sure this is one of them.
..I really want to see Tahiti but the wife says that no way will she fly that far.
army transport. no stewardess, or in flight movies.......
I know it's apples and oranges, but in 1961 I flew from Oakland, CA, to Honolulu, to Wake Island, to Tokyo in a four engine prop plane. Was 33 hours air time, not including time on the ground. In 1963 traveled the same route in a similar plane - 35 hours in the air. Supposedly had a 30 minute refueling/customs stop in Honolulu on the return flight and would up there 3 hours while they changed an engine. Talk about long!
Dang man, no wonder you are bald!!!!!!
Houston - New Delhi with a stop to change planes in Europe. Either Amsterdam or Frankfurt. 23 hours from the time we boarded until we landed at our destination. I guess I made this trip 3 times.
Tampa to the middle East through London. Not too bad since we flew Business class. One trip we flew to JFK and then JFK to Heathrow then to Abu Dhabi. We were upgraded to first class on the JFK - Heathrow leg. Now that was something. You get a set of PJs along with flat beds and top of the line food and drink.
Its all long with TSA.
On a trip to Rio in Brazil smoking was still allowed.
Terrified chain smokers had me (an ex smoker) gagging.
It was really bad and gave me a respiratory problem to spoil my vacation.
I couldn't even appreciate seeing the girl from Ipenema.
45 min
5 hour layover
Then 15 hours from LAX to Fiji main island.
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Wearing my Navy dress blues in the summer with a plane full of dependents,mostly kids.
Then a long bus ride still in dress blues from Clark AFB to Subic bay.
I never did forgive the Air Force for making me wear my blues.
flew from Fallon,Nv. to Ft.McClellan (Anniston) Al. in a C-130,,that felt like days,[xx(][xx(][xx(]
Chicago to Sydney about the same.
Chicago to Bankok. 20 hours.
Drink a lot and take reading material.
Going ATL to LAX to Mebourne AU in a week. 9 hour layover at LAX, then 16 hour flight. Arrive and drive to the company Im visiting.
I do get business class on an airbus A-380, so ill report on how nice that is.
I do get business class on an airbus A-380, so ill report on how nice that is.
Please do, I would love to fly on one of those.
Then a sled ride from the strip to Williams Field. I had the worst headache of my entire life before or since for about two days. Thought I was going to die.
Then a year later I had to do the same thing in reverse to get home. We rode with the Air Force from Hickam to Davisville. Somebody overheard the pilot tell one of his crew "We're going to show these sailors how the Air Force flies". When he took off he went almost straight up, and almost lost it trying to level off. If he was trying to scare me, it worked.
In the words of dheffley, "won't do it again".