Flights between 2 airport that no other Flyertalker has ever done
- although travelling to and fro Vietnam quite a bit does help.
Nov 18, 2014, 11:33 am
#514
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Everywhere else
Programs: Miles and frowns, IHG aluminum
Posts: 346
I got to fly from Natakhari airfield to Mestia's Queen Tamar airport this summer on a 12-seater. I don't know if these have airport codes, I couldn't find them and I don't read Georgian!
Flight was an AMAZING deal at $65. Beats 10+ hrs in a marshrutka. They pick you up in central Tbilisi and bring you to the very nice airport which is somewhere past Mtshetka. Plane was brand new, even got a water. Views are stunning, looks a lot like this video here except less snow when I went in late August.
http://youtu.be/tcC-6koed40
**I advise muting if you are not a fan of Top Gun
Flight was an AMAZING deal at $65. Beats 10+ hrs in a marshrutka. They pick you up in central Tbilisi and bring you to the very nice airport which is somewhere past Mtshetka. Plane was brand new, even got a water. Views are stunning, looks a lot like this video here except less snow when I went in late August.
http://youtu.be/tcC-6koed40
**I advise muting if you are not a fan of Top Gun
Nov 18, 2014, 2:55 pm
#515
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: DCA
Programs: AA EXP; BoNVoY Tit LTP
Posts: 1,923
Lawrence KS to Kansas City (LWC-MCI) once on a Sunday when it was cheaper than a taxi...a four-seater, unfortunately the other passenger got to sit in front with a steering wheel and I was in back.
Nov 18, 2014, 3:16 pm
#516
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,830
YYJ/Victoria - YDT/Vancouver Boundary Bay (Skylink Airlines), they could barely get the engines started on the Piper Navajo; and then once they were going and we were in flight, the fuel consumption/oil pressure/oil temp varied wildly left to right (I was passenger in right seat). Actually felt safer in a C150 for the return trip
YYJ/Victoria - CLM/Port Angeles: multiple airlines (Air BC, Horizon, San Juan Air)
YYJ/Victoria - CLM/Port Angeles: multiple airlines (Air BC, Horizon, San Juan Air)
Nov 19, 2014, 3:20 am
#518
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: anywhere and everywhere
Programs: UA GS, AS MVP 100K, DL Diamond, Marriot Lifetime Titanium, AmEx Centurion
Posts: 5,528
Some odd ones:
INU (Nauru Island) to TRW (Tarawa, Kiribati)
CAB (Cabinda, Angola) to LAD (Luanda, Angola)
HGA (Hargeisa, Somala) to JIB (Djibouti)
Nov 19, 2014, 4:17 am
#519
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Terra Australis Cognita
Posts: 5,350
CAI-GAZ. Not a very popular route at the best of times, and poor old Yasser Arafat International Airport is not likely to open up again any time soon.
Nov 20, 2014, 3:14 am
#522
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Europe & Indonesia
Programs: BAEC Gold, LH SEN, EK ex-Gold, IHG Plat
Posts: 11,571
Dec 13, 2014, 10:52 am
#525
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: NYC
Posts: 419
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have gone FRU-OSS (Bishkek to Osh in Kyrgyzstan). I had already done the trip by road in the other direction and it was well worth the US$43, paid in cash as none of my debit or credit cards would work in Kyrgyzstan, to save 11 hours of climbing over mountain passes again. It was also a gorgeous 35 minutes in the air.
I wish I'd gotten to take that flight to Mestia mentioned above. A friendly town with one particular stray dog that latched onto us on a hike all the way out to a glacier and back.
Seth
I wish I'd gotten to take that flight to Mestia mentioned above. A friendly town with one particular stray dog that latched onto us on a hike all the way out to a glacier and back.
Seth