<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Mwenenzi:
What experience have mileage runners had in turning around at an airport, both on domestic flights and internationally (any in any country in the world, not just the USA) given that may people can not understand why someone would fly somewhere, and then return immediately to the same place whence they come or then go somewhere when they have taken a direct flight.
More interested in airport’s that were in a different country from the departure airport, but all experiences are welcome
Please advise
(a) Airports / countries the flight was
(b) Dates
(c) Airline
(d) How much time was there between your flights
(e) If a change of air line was needed
(f) If you had checked baggage or carry on baggage
(g) If you went through customs and immigration or an internal airport transit,
(h) If you had a boarding pass for the next leg or if you had to get it an transit point
(i) If you stayed more than 24 hrs (i.e more than what the air line considered a transit
(j) Any experience’s if staying at the airport overnight in the bar, lounge, sleeping on the floor or what ever.
(k) Any costs of visa & air port taxes you had to pay at the airport
(l) Any hassles with airline staff or the bureaucracy,
(m) Any good or bad stories on turn-a-rounds / transits
Some cities seem popular with mileage runners, like Dubai from London (LHR-DXB), and Singapore
I remember one post that said in Singapore the airline staff got the next boarding pass for the pax, without them requiring to go through customs and immigration.
Their will be stories in this in trip reports, so any I find I will cut and paste to this post
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I took a mr to AMS. No problems in AMS at all. Imigration and Customs at EWR were not so great. When talking to the imigration officer I flet as though he didn't even want to admit me and was questioning why I would fly to AMS and than turnaround and come back. The Customs guy went through the whole drug spiel and had to search my bag. My worst experience was coming home from Italy on a vacation. The Customs guy had the balls to ask me how long I planned on staying in America while he was holding my US Passport. Since I was coming from Amsterdam he also did the whole drug search. Before 911 the most customs ever asked was where I came from and than where do you work answer those and I was out of there. Happy Flying!!!