Flights to Nowhere...A Question
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flew BWI-LAX-LAS-DEN-BWI in a day. When i arrived at BWI the agents there seemed quite accustomed to the idea of pax going transcon and staying in LAS for maybe one hour then going back...
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A couple of years ago I did a year-end MHT-LGA mileage run. The a/c turned around, and since it was a half-full 19-passenger Fairchild the whole crew recognized me. They had a good laugh.
Funniest one, though, was SIN-PER RT on QF for the OW continents bonus this past summer. My Australian landing card was a bit out of the ordinary: no address in Australia, duration of visit two and a half hours, purpose "other," and so on. The passport control officer asked me why. I explained. He figured I might be crazy but probably wasn't a security threat, so he let me in. Coming back the other way an hour later, the same fellow saw me from the far end of the passport hall. He waved a newspaper in the air and shouted out "Come on over here, so you don't have to explain it again to someone else!"
Can you imagine a passport control officer in ANY other country doing that?
Funniest one, though, was SIN-PER RT on QF for the OW continents bonus this past summer. My Australian landing card was a bit out of the ordinary: no address in Australia, duration of visit two and a half hours, purpose "other," and so on. The passport control officer asked me why. I explained. He figured I might be crazy but probably wasn't a security threat, so he let me in. Coming back the other way an hour later, the same fellow saw me from the far end of the passport hall. He waved a newspaper in the air and shouted out "Come on over here, so you don't have to explain it again to someone else!"
Can you imagine a passport control officer in ANY other country doing that?