Anyone like flying just for fun?
Nov 21, 2012, 7:56 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 488
Anyone like flying just for fun?
I wonder if anyone here like to just to be on the plane? I know if you use award travel with united then you can do some weird long routing before you reach your destination.
Please share your experience and your routing!
Please share your experience and your routing!
Nov 21, 2012, 8:29 am
#3
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: SEA
Programs: AS 75k, OW Emerald, Hyatt Globalist, HHonors Gold, National EE
Posts: 303
I often think that the whole purpose of participating in FT is to indulge my enjoyment of flying for fun. The routings I have are insane from any normal perspective, but I love them, and continue to find joy in little things about flying. Because I fly so much for work, I think it's also a way of coping, a kind of cognitive dissonance.
Nov 21, 2012, 8:41 am
#4
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, MR Gold, HH Gold
Posts: 926
I don't fly just for fun. Commercial air travel is just a way to keep my job. What's so fun about packing your belongings into one small bag, getting sexually assaulted at a security checkpoint, and then spending the next four hours with your knees in your chest while the 500 pound guy next to you spills over into your seat?
Nov 21, 2012, 8:42 am
#5
Join Date: Nov 2012
Programs: SPG Gold, Aeroplan, Hilton Honors, Le Club Accor Platinum
Posts: 268
Normally when I book, the routing plan depends quite a bit on trying new airlines and different types of planes. Loved flying and planes ever since I was a kid.
Nov 21, 2012, 8:43 am
#6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Western Europe
Programs: Yeah, well, don’t really care anymore
Posts: 845
Yes, but not onboard an airliner. Firing up the Jabiru on a nice sunny day with no wind and a good mate to keep me company, pottering about and deciding on destination based on what we'd like for lunch, that's flying for fun. Airliner passenger flying .... that's mainly a hassle, sometimes a pain.
Nov 21, 2012, 8:48 am
#7
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, MR Gold, HH Gold
Posts: 926
Yes, but not onboard an airliner. Firing up the Jabiru on a nice sunny day with no wind and a good mate to keep me company, pottering about and deciding on destination based on what we'd like for lunch, that's flying for fun. Airliner passenger flying .... that's mainly a hassle, sometimes a pain.
Nov 21, 2012, 8:54 am
#8
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Western Europe
Programs: Yeah, well, don’t really care anymore
Posts: 845
I wouldn't trust myself to build something my life depends on, so, no. I own a 1/4 share in the kite. 2 of the other members are commercial pilots but, most importantly the 4th guy is a B2 licensed aircraft engineer. He gets to do all the really important things us airheads cannot be trusted with, which is maintenance. And he's very, very, good at it.
The aircraft was bought used, built by a Swiss civil engineer. It was the 3rd aircraft he built, and none of them have fallen out of the skies yet.
The aircraft was bought used, built by a Swiss civil engineer. It was the 3rd aircraft he built, and none of them have fallen out of the skies yet.
Nov 21, 2012, 9:00 am
#10
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: PDX
Posts: 2,284
I once received a rather sizable IDB voucher for a spur of the moment trip on a Friday night from SFO to Reno. When I got home, I called United and found flights I could apply the voucher towards just to fly somewhere the next day.
Nov 21, 2012, 1:38 pm
#15
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Luxembourg
Programs: KLM/AF Platinum for life, IHG Platinum, Accor Platinum
Posts: 1,026
Of course, the best is flying myself.
I get the best seat;
Nobody tells me my bag is too big;
I can't miss my flight;
I know when the pilot is lying;
I don't have to let anybody out;
I get to sleep with the copilot;
Nobody steals from my bag and leaves (or not) a little note;
However,
the seat doesn't recline
the service is terrible,
I can't get any sleep because some guy keeps talking in my ear;
no miles;
makes first class fares look cheap
I get the best seat;
Nobody tells me my bag is too big;
I can't miss my flight;
I know when the pilot is lying;
I don't have to let anybody out;
I get to sleep with the copilot;
Nobody steals from my bag and leaves (or not) a little note;
However,
the seat doesn't recline
the service is terrible,
I can't get any sleep because some guy keeps talking in my ear;
no miles;
makes first class fares look cheap