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Dec 10, 2005 | 5:30 am

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Boo Boo

Join Date: Jun 2001

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Originally Posted by Terminalator

I thought it was a little odd that it took me 17 hours to get from ORD-LHR on the 286 yesterday. I had only been away a week but I am sure it only too 7.5 hours to get there. I don't remember the 4.5 hour stop in Dublin with a crew change on the way out either.

Known as "the scenic route"... or "two countries for the price of one" (assuming that they didn't charge you for the "stopover").

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