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Old Jul 1, 2002 | 9:39 pm
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NM
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
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How about the record for consecutive coach-class airline meals?

The week after the Olympic Games finished in Sydney I had to get from BNE to RDU, and the only seats I could get out of Australia was heading west. So I went (all in coach):

BNE-SYD-SIN-FRA-LGW-RDU.

By heading west, the nights are lloonngg as you chase the sun, so this was all done through one night, but elapsed time was 44 hours. This routing consisted of 13 consecutive coach airline meals! The longest connection was in LGW where I cleared customs, interviewed a fellow for a job in Australia and met a collegue also travelling to RDU (but he was in J ).

My most number of nights was heading east from DFW-LGW-LHR-HKG-CNS-BNE, with a 10 hour day-time layover between LGW and LHR (hired a car and went to RAF Duxford - a wonderful place to spend a day). So that would have been 3 short nights. At least that flights was in J, though have done similar returns to Australia in Y via the UK.
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