Most unique "line" on your lifetime route map?
May 5, 2016, 11:05 am
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One of mine is the train from Kolkata to Puri (via Bhubaneswar), 19 hours, which was a poor experience despite being in the highest class (sleeper car, in which I was fortunate to have the second bunk unoccupied). Had to try it once, and it was worthwhile because the food in Odisha was fantastic.
May 5, 2016, 2:06 pm
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May 6, 2016, 12:07 pm
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I flew a one minute flight in Scotland from Westray Airport to Papa Westray airport. I think the distance is less than 2 miles. I'm told that flight sometimes takes only 45 seconds when the wind is right. Shortest commercial flight I've ever seen.
May 6, 2016, 1:10 pm
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May 6, 2016, 1:36 pm
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wasn't there an article on the FlyerTalk main page about that being the shortest commercial flight there is?
May 6, 2016, 2:32 pm
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Mine would have to be LPQ-PEK (Luang Prabang, Laos). We landed in Beijing in a chartered Bombardier 850, then taxied to the VIP stands. Everyone got off the plane and there was nobody there to greet us. Widebodies were taxiing by less than 100 yards away and we were free to roam the tarmac. Eventually a bus showed up flying the communist flag in the front window and brought us to passport control... Surreal experience.
May 7, 2016, 5:31 am
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CPH-RNN, some time in the 1980s. A route flown several times a day, only this day the F-27 normally doing the service went tits up. A substitute was found at Conair, in the form of a B-720. First and only time a B-720, or anything that large, ever served the route.
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May 7, 2016, 5:42 am
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No question when IROPS causes diversions that unusual ones occur. I was on the AS milk run SEA-KTN-WRG-PSG-JNU but the wind was so strong we did not land at KTN but went on to WRG so that was an unusual routing. Then went WRG-KTN which is not unusual because that is the reverse milk run. Then KTN-PSG missing out WRG because we had already been there. So two unusual routings on the same flight.
On AA it was DFW-SMF but diverted so went DFW-RNO-SMF - I think RNO-SMF would be unusual.
On CO it was MCI-EWR but diverted for WX so MCI-PHL-EWR so I think PHL-EWR is relatively rare.
If you include seaplanes - then WFB (Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane base) to a lake in the middle of nowhere then back to WFB.
On AA it was DFW-SMF but diverted so went DFW-RNO-SMF - I think RNO-SMF would be unusual.
On CO it was MCI-EWR but diverted for WX so MCI-PHL-EWR so I think PHL-EWR is relatively rare.
If you include seaplanes - then WFB (Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane base) to a lake in the middle of nowhere then back to WFB.
May 7, 2016, 7:10 pm
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I worked for Rutgers hoops while I was in college and we flew charter a lot when we were in the old Big East, so I have a lot of fun flights out of TTN...
TTN-AGC-TTN (Trenton to Allegheny County)
TTN-LOU-TTN (Trenton to Bowman Field in Louisville, KY)
CKB-PVD (North Central West Virginia Airport to Providence)
KAI-OGL (Kaiteur Falls National Park to Ogle as a domestic flight in Guyana)
TTN-AGC-TTN (Trenton to Allegheny County)
TTN-LOU-TTN (Trenton to Bowman Field in Louisville, KY)
CKB-PVD (North Central West Virginia Airport to Providence)
KAI-OGL (Kaiteur Falls National Park to Ogle as a domestic flight in Guyana)
May 8, 2016, 2:21 pm
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On my domestic one, PHF-PBI. I drove three hours to Newport News and flew the inaugural PeopleExpress flight to West Palm Beach back in 2014.
May 8, 2016, 4:56 pm
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