Your most ridiculous journey
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jock mcsporran said:
Was going home from Venezuela for Christmas and heading to the girlfriends in Italy. Had pretty simple flights set up but rains and a landslide near the bridge to Caracus Airport shut it down for a while. A hasty re-booking by our travel team resulted in this little gem. Maturin-Trinidad-Miami-Detroit-Amsterdam-Glasgow-London-Pisa. I was f***ed at the end of it.
Crikey! I think this might be the winner.
I once flew to Auckland for a meeting with the NZ SAS. As I was in the air on the final leg, the Christchurch earthquake happened, so I landed at Auckland at about 1630 local time, checked my voicemail to find the meeting had been binned, so went out on the lash at Viaduct Basin for the night and then caught the 1030 flight back to the UK the next morning. 37 hours each way.
rottie102 said:
Jordan's got some of the most amazing roads! And all absolutely empty!
YES! I drove from Amman down to Petra the long way a couple of years ago (not just following the border and then heading inland, but heading inland from the top of the Dead Sea and weaving through the mountains). The roads were incredible, and I think I saw five other cars the whole time. Amazing.Back to the original post, years ago I flew from Heathrow to Toronto. I forget the exact costs, but flying direct was something like £600, while flying to Vienna, waiting two hours and then heading to Toronto was about £200. I'm pretty sure I flew directly over Heathrow again about five hours after I'd left it.
rottie102 said:
2) I enquired about it and if you miss checking in on any of the legs, your ticket becomes invalid.
1) ...so it won't be a problem when I'll get off at LHR on the way home
and as for why - £1200 savings is a good reason to me
All the other flights/airlines available were more expensive/worse timewise since I'm only going to Jordan for the weekend, also my friend is flying from Zurich (that's how I found this combo and price difference when I tried to join her flight in London)
So if you have not done this before I would urge caution on point 1.1) ...so it won't be a problem when I'll get off at LHR on the way home
and as for why - £1200 savings is a good reason to me
All the other flights/airlines available were more expensive/worse timewise since I'm only going to Jordan for the weekend, also my friend is flying from Zurich (that's how I found this combo and price difference when I tried to join her flight in London)
The contract you have with BA will be from Zurich to Amman via LHR and return.
If on your return flight in Amman they check you all the way through to Zurich, and at LHR you either have to ask to have your checked in baggage removed from the plane (if you have any) or to have yourself offloaded from the LHR-ZRH, BA may try to charge you.
Ask me how I know.
I had to go from Amsterdam to Newcastle for a meeting last year, and the next day to Barcelona for a meeting. My company booked me NCL-AMS-BCN return saying I could simply get off the return flight in AMS.
When I checked in at BCN the checkin lady refused to check my bag only to AMS as my ticket was to NCL.
When I got to AMS and after a long argument a call with my company I was relieved of EUR400 which was the cost of the difference in ticket to only AMS before they would recover my suitcase.
My trip on wednesday to Maine will be fairly stupid.
Flying from LHR to Paris, to get a contecting flight to Boston. When I get to Boston it's then two hours on a coach to Portland and then another hours wait in Portland to meet my mate and his family before and another hour and a half in the car to where he is staying with his in-laws ready for his wedding on saturday.
I'm leaving home about 2am on wednesday morning. It's going to be a bloody long day!
Flying from LHR to Paris, to get a contecting flight to Boston. When I get to Boston it's then two hours on a coach to Portland and then another hours wait in Portland to meet my mate and his family before and another hour and a half in the car to where he is staying with his in-laws ready for his wedding on saturday.
I'm leaving home about 2am on wednesday morning. It's going to be a bloody long day!
Last Christmas I decided to go to a mate's wedding in Sri Lanka (which was at a similar time to when I was originally meant to be flying back to the UK from NZ).
Managed to get Emirates to put a break in my journey in Dubai so I could catch a different flight to Sri Lanka and back and then pick up my orginal flight from Dubai.
I remember flying right over Colombo a good 15 hours before I actually landed there.
Managed to get Emirates to put a break in my journey in Dubai so I could catch a different flight to Sri Lanka and back and then pick up my orginal flight from Dubai.
I remember flying right over Colombo a good 15 hours before I actually landed there.
I believe the technique is to split your return journey so you have an 'overnight' stop in London, meaning your bag will be released to you.
BA (and I guess other airlines) have fare rules called 'higher intermediate point' which are supposed to stop you not doing the last part of the trip without paying the difference but I have not heard of them being enforced.
BA (and I guess other airlines) have fare rules called 'higher intermediate point' which are supposed to stop you not doing the last part of the trip without paying the difference but I have not heard of them being enforced.
LHRFlightman said:
In 2004.
Tuesday Heathrow to JFk
Wednesday JFK to Washington
Thursday Washington to LA
Thursday LA to Sydney
Saturday Sydney to Canberra
Monday Canberra to Melbourne
Tuesday Melbourne to Singapore
Tuesday Singapore to Heathrow, arrived 0445 Wednesday morning.
Are you a pilot ???Tuesday Heathrow to JFk
Wednesday JFK to Washington
Thursday Washington to LA
Thursday LA to Sydney
Saturday Sydney to Canberra
Monday Canberra to Melbourne
Tuesday Melbourne to Singapore
Tuesday Singapore to Heathrow, arrived 0445 Wednesday morning.
;-)
BigBen said:
I believe the technique is to split your return journey so you have an 'overnight' stop in London, meaning your bag will be released to you.
BA (and I guess other airlines) have fare rules called 'higher intermediate point' which are supposed to stop you not doing the last part of the trip without paying the difference but I have not heard of them being enforced.
If you have bags the easiest way is to make sure the return involves an airport switch from LHR to LCY or LGW BA (and I guess other airlines) have fare rules called 'higher intermediate point' which are supposed to stop you not doing the last part of the trip without paying the difference but I have not heard of them being enforced.
Done it many many times with no issues.
Edited by GCH on Wednesday 11th September 13:30
Went travelling in 2004/05. Heathrow to Delhi, Delhi to Hanoi, then overland to Bangkok and from there to Singapore, Singapore to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne, Melbourne to Wellington, NZ, overland to Auckland and from there to Hawaii, then to LA, LA to Atlanta, GA and overland to New York, then back to Heathrow.
On the first flight, due to leave Heathrow about 6pm, the flaps wouldn't retract. We flew around reducing the fuel load for 2.5 hours and then landed back at Heathrow where they 'fixed' the problem. Took off again to find it wasn't fixed. Another 2.5 hours flying around, then landed, Radisson hotel for the night and a resheduled flight the next day on a plane that worked.
Trip of a lifetime though
On the first flight, due to leave Heathrow about 6pm, the flaps wouldn't retract. We flew around reducing the fuel load for 2.5 hours and then landed back at Heathrow where they 'fixed' the problem. Took off again to find it wasn't fixed. Another 2.5 hours flying around, then landed, Radisson hotel for the night and a resheduled flight the next day on a plane that worked.
Trip of a lifetime though
V15benrottie102 said:
theaxe said:
I once did London to Barcelona to Frankfurt to Abu Dhabi to Muscat to Abu Dhabi to Muscat to Abu Dhabi to Muscat to Frankfurt to Barcelona to London (11 sectors) in 5 days. It made very little sense but was great fun.
We have a different idea of FUN The general purpose of the trip was to earn BA Tier points quickly. Pointless for me as I didn't really need them.
I got on a military a/c to go to Bahrain from Qatar. Idiot pongos put me on the wrong one. I asked the groundcrew when we landed, 'Where is Pan 4?'. The guy replied, 'We dont label pans by numbers but by letters here', alarm bells started ringing! I was in Kuwait! I got back on the HS-125 (?) and did the tactical approach thing which was interesting!
Long story short I spent the next 24 hours going through every airfield in Iraq to get back to Qatar. Upon arrival at the crack of dawn, the pongo was waiting for me with his boss in tow, to apologise. I was way past even being bothered about it, but I could tell the boss man wanted me to be peed off, just so he could do him!
Long story short I spent the next 24 hours going through every airfield in Iraq to get back to Qatar. Upon arrival at the crack of dawn, the pongo was waiting for me with his boss in tow, to apologise. I was way past even being bothered about it, but I could tell the boss man wanted me to be peed off, just so he could do him!
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