Flights between 2 airport that no other Flyertalker has ever done
Sep 3, 2013, 7:32 pm
#76
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: ATL
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I used to fly BAH-DHA before the bridge was built (and even after as it was quicker getting through customs that way initially). Just over 20 miles, in a TriStar. Flight time about 15 minutes, max altitude 2,000 feet.
Managed a couple of last minute G&Ts before hitting the kingdom IIRC!
Managed a couple of last minute G&Ts before hitting the kingdom IIRC!
Sep 3, 2013, 7:43 pm
#77
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Location: SEA — the REAL Washington; occasionally (but a lot less often than before) in the other Washington (DCA area)
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Sep 3, 2013, 7:47 pm
#78
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Location: SEA — the REAL Washington; occasionally (but a lot less often than before) in the other Washington (DCA area)
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they were still known as Allegheny when they used Convair 580s and ex-Mohawk BAC 1-11s after taking over Mohawk in 1972; MO also ran the FH-227B on the route ... 17 times on this route in one direction or the other between Aug 71 and Jun 76, and another a few years later
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Sep 3, 2013, 8:47 pm
#80
Join Date: Mar 2013
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I signed up for Virgin Galactic. Does that count? It was before I was married and I will be in the first 50 people. For my wife to go with me (in first 50) they told me I could redeem 10million frequent flier miles for the "largest mileage redemption for a single flight." Comes out to $0.025 CPM for those wondering...
Sep 3, 2013, 10:14 pm
#84
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: TYO / WAS / NYC
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CTS-MBE, which I flew on an Air Nippon 737 back in 2000 just a few months after MBE opened for business. I think the flight disappeared shortly thereafter and was then revived off and on (seasonally) for a while.
Sep 3, 2013, 10:36 pm
#85
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: ATL/TLV/SDF
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Once on UX, too bad they stopped that flight. Nice drive up PCH...
CLT-GSO, something like 80 miles on a US 737, I don't think they even bothered putting the gear up.
SNA-TVL on an Air California Electra and again on a PSA Electra in the 70s as a barely-preteen due to the jet ban at TVL until the 80s. TVL (Lake Tahoe) no longer has scheduled service. I even made my parents think I wanted to visit my aunt and uncle up there twice because I'd already been on a 737, 747, DC-6 (DC-7? MATS/USAF) and DC-9 and was obsessed with flying on the Electra. After the second trip, meh; it was horribly noisy and both planes vibrated like Home Depot paint-shakers. Good riddance.
VIS has to be the tiniest US airport I've ever used. The same people who ran the UX check-in also ran the security once they closed the counter. Bags? Thrown from the trolley under a fence.
CLT-GSO, something like 80 miles on a US 737, I don't think they even bothered putting the gear up.
SNA-TVL on an Air California Electra and again on a PSA Electra in the 70s as a barely-preteen due to the jet ban at TVL until the 80s. TVL (Lake Tahoe) no longer has scheduled service. I even made my parents think I wanted to visit my aunt and uncle up there twice because I'd already been on a 737, 747, DC-6 (DC-7? MATS/USAF) and DC-9 and was obsessed with flying on the Electra. After the second trip, meh; it was horribly noisy and both planes vibrated like Home Depot paint-shakers. Good riddance.
VIS has to be the tiniest US airport I've ever used. The same people who ran the UX check-in also ran the security once they closed the counter. Bags? Thrown from the trolley under a fence.
Sep 3, 2013, 10:57 pm
#87
Moderator Hilton Honors, Travel News, West, The Suggestion Box, Smoking Lounge & DiningBuzz
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Did that one several times as part of segment churning on mid-continent itins to/from California. E.g., IND-DEN-LAS-PSP-LAX-ONT-SFO.
Last Christmas, needed to fly from COS to SFO. Routing COS-DEN-PSP-SFO was the cheapest by far.
Having learned to fly in a Cessna 150 over the west Texas/southeast New Mexico desert, I love thermals and thus enjoyed the LAS-PSP-LAX route quite a lot!
Sep 4, 2013, 12:45 am
#88
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chicago USA
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We have some world travelers here! Great reading some fun city pairs. I wanted to see the world since I was a young gent, and so rather than wait for a friend, I would just go alone:
Scheduled Commercial Routes
Air China PEK-ULN
Aero Mongol ULN-IKT
Aeroflot SVO-VVO
Korean VVO-ICN
Olympic ATH-JMK
Olympic ATH-PAS
Olympic ATH-MJT
Olympic ATH-SKG
TK IST-ADB
TK ATH-ADB
Just did in May, Iran Air PEK-IKA on 747SP and it was wild! First time in an SP - there was a prayer room! IKA-DXB
Air Mauritius MRU-TNR
Air Madagascar TNR-JNB
Off the grid:
Ethiopian ADD-ZNZ
Kenya ZNZ-MBA
Precision DAR-ZNZ
British LHR-LUN
Kenya LUN-LLW
Uzbekistan DME-SKD
Uzbekistan SKD-TAS
Asiana TAS-ICN
Crazy Flights
TAP LIS-TMS (wanted to go to the middle of nowhere...and I did)
Air Greenland KEF-GOH GOH-KUS
Air Icelandic KUS-RKV (Rey regional airport)
I've done some crazy flights, but loved every moment of it!
Scheduled Commercial Routes
Air China PEK-ULN
Aero Mongol ULN-IKT
Aeroflot SVO-VVO
Korean VVO-ICN
Olympic ATH-JMK
Olympic ATH-PAS
Olympic ATH-MJT
Olympic ATH-SKG
TK IST-ADB
TK ATH-ADB
Just did in May, Iran Air PEK-IKA on 747SP and it was wild! First time in an SP - there was a prayer room! IKA-DXB
Air Mauritius MRU-TNR
Air Madagascar TNR-JNB
Off the grid:
Ethiopian ADD-ZNZ
Kenya ZNZ-MBA
Precision DAR-ZNZ
British LHR-LUN
Kenya LUN-LLW
Uzbekistan DME-SKD
Uzbekistan SKD-TAS
Asiana TAS-ICN
Crazy Flights
TAP LIS-TMS (wanted to go to the middle of nowhere...and I did)
Air Greenland KEF-GOH GOH-KUS
Air Icelandic KUS-RKV (Rey regional airport)
I've done some crazy flights, but loved every moment of it!
Sep 4, 2013, 2:33 am
#90
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I nearly did this flight in reverse, but there was an airspace closure issue, and we had to be bussed instead!
A couple others:
Glasgow Abbotsinch (GLA) - Varna (VAR) - at the height of the Black Sea holidays boom in the 80s
Tashkent (TAS) - Delhi (DEL) - not that obscure in the scheme of things, but there seem to be a few HY flights in here, so thought I'd add my tuppen'orth.
Aviatrix, sadly, I missed the opportunity to fly from IPW. I'll hopefully get to fly from CBG shortly, though!
A couple others:
Glasgow Abbotsinch (GLA) - Varna (VAR) - at the height of the Black Sea holidays boom in the 80s
Tashkent (TAS) - Delhi (DEL) - not that obscure in the scheme of things, but there seem to be a few HY flights in here, so thought I'd add my tuppen'orth.
Aviatrix, sadly, I missed the opportunity to fly from IPW. I'll hopefully get to fly from CBG shortly, though!