Anyone like flying just for fun?
I wonder if anyone here like to just to be on the plane? I know if you use award travel with united then you can do some weird long routing before you reach your destination.
Please share your experience and your routing! |
Originally Posted by IamHungry
(Post 19723193)
Please share your experience
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I often think that the whole purpose of participating in FT is to indulge my enjoyment of flying for fun. The routings I have are insane from any normal perspective, but I love them, and continue to find joy in little things about flying. Because I fly so much for work, I think it's also a way of coping, a kind of cognitive dissonance.
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I don't fly just for fun. Commercial air travel is just a way to keep my job. What's so fun about packing your belongings into one small bag, getting sexually assaulted at a security checkpoint, and then spending the next four hours with your knees in your chest while the 500 pound guy next to you spills over into your seat?
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Originally Posted by IamHungry
(Post 19723193)
I wonder if anyone here like to just to be on the plane? I know if you use award travel with united then you can do some weird long routing before you reach your destination.
Please share your experience and your routing! |
Yes, but not onboard an airliner. Firing up the Jabiru on a nice sunny day with no wind and a good mate to keep me company, pottering about and deciding on destination based on what we'd like for lunch, that's flying for fun. Airliner passenger flying .... that's mainly a hassle, sometimes a pain.
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Originally Posted by Sheikh Yerbooty
(Post 19723508)
Yes, but not onboard an airliner. Firing up the Jabiru on a nice sunny day with no wind and a good mate to keep me company, pottering about and deciding on destination based on what we'd like for lunch, that's flying for fun. Airliner passenger flying .... that's mainly a hassle, sometimes a pain.
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Originally Posted by lovely15
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Slight threadjack - did you build it?
The aircraft was bought used, built by a Swiss civil engineer. It was the 3rd aircraft he built, and none of them have fallen out of the skies yet. |
Just drop on the Mileage Run forum. You could get back shocked.
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Originally Posted by lovely15
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What's so fun about packing your belongings into one small bag, getting sexually assaulted at a security checkpoint, and then spending the next four hours with your knees in your chest while the 500 pound guy next to you spills over into your seat?
I once received a rather sizable IDB voucher for a spur of the moment trip on a Friday night from SFO to Reno. When I got home, I called United and found flights I could apply the voucher towards just to fly somewhere the next day. |
Originally Posted by IamHungry
(Post 19723193)
I wonder if anyone here like to just to be on the plane?!
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Recently, non stop ORD-IAH were all booked so I opted for ORD-LHR-IAH.
Love flying for the hell of it. |
Originally Posted by IamHungry
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Anyone like flying just for fun?
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Originally Posted by yknot
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Not since the last century.
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Of course, the best is flying myself.
I get the best seat; Nobody tells me my bag is too big; I can't miss my flight; I know when the pilot is lying; I don't have to let anybody out; I get to sleep with the copilot; Nobody steals from my bag and leaves (or not) a little note; However, the seat doesn't recline the service is terrible, I can't get any sleep because some guy keeps talking in my ear; no miles; makes first class fares look cheap |
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