Originally Posted by
Tobias-UK
Save for the surface travel, that amount of flying is not a particularly unusual amount for some here. Whilst I don't head to Aus/NZ that often I do have some itineraries that involve just as much flying in a similar amount of time. They can be very tiring depending on the meeting schedule en route, and the way I feel at the moment it would be impossible if in the back of the bus!
I sometimes do a partial back of the bus involving a similar itinerary (well, a little worse, replacing some short haul sectors with a long haul one). On one recent trip I had 6 long haul flights and 8 long-ish short haul flights in every class. Long haul legs were in Y, J and F - a complete mix. Over about 10 days.
The worst I've done was LHR-SIN-SYD-MEL-XXX-(where, I can't remember)-SYD-XXX (somewhere I can't remember)-NRT-(surface sectors x 2)-SYD-MEL in 5 days, all in Y. But this was many years ago when I was still a youth and could contemplate doing things like that in Y.
The worst in recently time was LHR-SIN-SYD-BNE-HKG-BNE in 5 days but LHR-SIN-SYD was in F and BNE-HKG-BNE was in J so it wasn't that bad, but I worked flat out through the flights so it was bad.
What actually IS bad is with the time difference 5 days is basically 4.5 days with those itinerary
I think the OP will not find it too bad as long as he doesn't unpack too much at each stopover points. It's packing and unpacking that becomes a major pain.