Originally Posted by
trebex
Did you really fly 28 hours just for the miles???
Is that a serious question? If so, you haven't been around FlyerTalk for very long. Just kidding...well sort of. There's people out there that have traveled much longer flight marathons than that just for the miles. I recall reading about one guy doing daily USA R/T transcon flights for I think almost a month, just for the miles. I'll be doing that for about 8 days later this year. I very frequently spend all weekend just flying to wherever and then returning. What can I say? Some of us are just flat out crazy, or at least appear that way to normal people who hate being cramped up in an aluminum tube at 35,000 feet.
Anyways, to answer your question, yes I did. Door-to-door (my house and back again) the trip was about 37 hours. It's not uncommon for me to do double that on a long holiday weekend.