BA Humbug

It's rare I get this feeling, as I travel for work a total of 0% of the time, so indulge me as royal cock-ups of personal scheduling led to this in the one-month-ish period between 15 March and 20 April, including 3 TATLs in 7 days:

ZRH-LHR BA 719 - Y
LHR-BKK BR 68 - J
BKK-HKG CX 656 - J
HKG-ZRH CX 383 - W
ZRH-LHR BA 713 - Y
LHR-ZRH BA 720 - Y (5-hour turn)
ZRH-LHR BA 713 - Y
LHR-ZRH BA 720 - Y (second time & royal cock-up #1, 5-hour turn)
ZRH-MXP LX 1616 - Y
MXP-CAI MS 706 - Y
CAI-LHR BA 154 (royal cock-up #2) - J
LHR-LXR MS 762 - Y
CAI-MXP MS 703 - Y
ZRH-CDG LX 632 - J
CDG-YYZ AC 881 - J (TATL 1, royal cock-up #3)
YYZ-ZRH AC 878 - W (TATL 2)
ZRH-DUB EI 349 - Y
DUB-LHR BA 831 - J (ExDub)
LHR-JFK BA 173 - F (TATL 3)
JFK-LAS AA 211 - F
LAS-LAX AA 145 - F
LAX-LIH AA 265 - F
LIH-HNL HI 314 - Y
HNL-OGG HI 266 - Y
OGG-LIH HI 211 - Y
LIH-LAX AA 266 - F
LAX-ORD AA 219 - F
ORD-JFK AA 130 - F
JFK-LCY BA 2 - J
LCY-ZRH LX 461 - Y

As you can notice, all the F sectors were made possible by the help of this forum, so thank you! ^^

It also makes me appreciate the work that you road warriors do for your company(-ies) that much more, knowing the toll it must take.

Jimmie76

That's a sure sign you've been travelling too much

Tobias-UK

Welcome to the club, 3/4 TATLs in a week is not unusual for me. Thankfully I am doing fewer of that frequency of trip these days, perhaps just 4 or 5 of them likely this year. I now manage to get a couple of weeks between each visit to the US.

skba1

@Tobias-UK

I agree, although mine tend to be HK and not US most of the time. Although my 8 intercontinental ones in OCT (6 days) and JAN (11 days) were outside of the norm.

I think January this year almost qualifies for this thread with 67k miles and 12 intercontinental flights with a total of 31 flights. I think 3 longhaul were Y and a few shorthaul. About 75% C or above.

Cymro

I imagine this is what CWS calls an average, or even a quiet week, but my itinerary between 23 June and 5 July is as follows:

LHR - LIN - LHR - SEA - LHR - CPH - LHR

4.5 days in the office (2 on the road in the UK)

LHR - BKK - KUL - LHR

Leisure flying as well, for a total of 25,347 miles (when I've already flown 13,551 miles this month) and all because I booked a bank holiday in Chicago and managed to annoy two separate groups of people who thought I should have consulted with them instead.

However the Hamburg rule is being stretched - ex-LHR is universally in Y except for LHR-LIN. Happily all the inbounds are in J.

henkybaby

I am having a CWS inbound: DPS-PER (yesterday) - SYD (lunch in SYD if I don't fall asleep), HKG (breakfast meeting at the airport) - KUL - LHR - OSL (meeting colleagues at airport again) - AMS.

10hrs in SYD and 10 hrs in HKG. Average trip for some no doubt. Still nice that people are willing to meet up in the weekend.

skba1

@Cymru That sounds like a pretty average month

I have 17400 miles on ARN-LHR-HKG-HND rtn pretty much during the same dates (22/6-3/7), with 18500 miles so far this month. Although admittedly all my longhauls are in J this month.

@henkybaby That is a pretty tight schedule

Jon Baker

Is it when you are booking so many ex-EU's, positioning and re-positioning flights on the same day, that you confusingly book [almost] the correct positioning flight for completely the wrong ex-EU?


No, of course, c-w-s would never make such an amateur mistake!


Thankfully I realised fairly rapidly and was able to cancel and rebook...

muishkin

I am relatively new to this forum but I am guessing to be CWS-like means you have to fly a lot within a short amount of time. The only time I did that was a few years ago around Christmas. I left Toulouse the day after Christmas and did TLS -> LHR -> SIN -> SYD -> BNE -> SYD -> LAX -> JFK -> LHR -> TLS -> LHR -> TLS in a little more than 7 full days. I spent 2 days in Brisbane with some relatives, celebrated New Year's eve in NYC, flew back to LHR on New Year's day on a day flight, and returned to Toulouse twice on Jan. 2nd.

Oh BTW the reason I tacked on another TLS -> LHR return at the end was because I dropped my wallet in the T5 lounge. I was able to recover it in the return leg.

Jon Baker

It has been suggested [ well I'm suggesting it now ] that c-w-s isn't a real person, he's merely a pseudonym for an entire [specialist marketing] team at BA dedicated to actually enlightening the general public to the myriad of routes and destinations accessible across the world!

He seems to be a man, an enigma even, who counts not his hours or miles in the air, but eons - tracking the mear minutes on the ground!

No, who are we kidding, no airline could ever know as much as him!

One of these days someone will invent an equivalent for Google-Wacking, naming a place where c-w-s hasn't been! [Oh I just invented c-w-s-Whacking - there's a new thread for you ]

Stez

I believe he hadn't been to Tristan da Cunha.

I know I've been to a few airports/places he hasn't been to either.

allturnleft

Think my most exotic 10 days flying was when i did medical repatriation in 2000
It was shattering:

Repat 1
Sat LGW - Harare Air Zimbabwe C
Sun HRE - DZD (Mayotte) Air Austral C
With Patient:
Mon DZD - NBO Air Austral C
NBO- LHR BA C (Deliver pt)

Repat 2
Thu LHR -MIA BA C
MIA - san salvador- TGU (Honduras) TACA C
With Patient :
Fri TGU- MIA AA C
MIA -LHR AA C upgraded to F (old style)
Sat LHR -DUB Aer Lingus C (deliver pt)
DUB - LHR Aer Lingus Y

Repat 3
Sun LHR - Bilbao BA C
With stretcher patient :
BIO-LHR Iberia Stretcher Y
LHR- DXB Emirates Y Stretcher
Mon DXB -Karachi Emirates Y Stretcher (deliver pt)
Tue KHI - DXB Emirates Y
DXB -LHR Emirates Y arr home Wed

Howard Long

I have done quite a few weekend long haul trips including RTWs where I don't even stay one night, all in F and mostly (but not all) on Avios, and booked within 48 hours of departure.

LHR-SIN-SYD-HKG-LHR for Sunday lunch, left Friday evening, back at desk first thing Monday morning
LHR-JFK-HKG-ICN-HKG-LHR for noodles in ICN
LHR-JFK-HKG-LHR
LHR-DUS-HKG-LHR x 2
LHR-HKG-LHR x 3
LHR-CDG-DOH-BKK-DOH-CDG-LHR x 2 evening meal in BKK at my favorite restaurant
LHR-HKG-LHR lost count how many times I've done this trip
LHR-KUL-LHR
LHR-DXB-MEL-AKL-BNE-DXB-LHR - cheat, that was a bank holiday and I had dinner one night and lunch next day before returning.

allturnleft

Doing a round the world loop is great
Did one
LHR-SIN-HKG-YVR-Edmonton-YVR-LHR wirh 2 brief night stops in SIN and YVR completed in 4 days

hcuk94

I was once boarding an LHR-MAN flight, cabin crew were doling out the usual 'Welcome on board, sir' greetings as we all piled on.
With the exception of one man just a few ahead of me, at whom the crew shouted 'wey aye man!'
I thought... could it be?