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Old Sep 22, 2020 | 6:37 am
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Originally Posted by LondonElite
I can't imagine anything more pointless than this. Possibly if there is some viewing aspect to it (and not EWR - circling around southern New Jersey - EWR), but spending money to sit in an aluminium tube with a few hundred other people only to end up where you started from seems nutty, and wasteful.
They don't have to be to 'Flights to Nowhere'. Just short out and back round trips. Back in the good old days when mileage actually counted they were called mileage runs.
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