RI2KH2SU

I think I have a pretty good one.

While living in Shenzhen, I flew from HKG to SFO to meet my kids in the airport (they were at camp) and three hours later got on a flight from SFO to SZX via PVG. I was in the air for something like 25 out of 30 hours.

CPRich

You're home enough that you've met your neighbors!!

Fraser

Not as far as that one but when I lived in the UK a friend was on the BOD of a South African company. Every three weeks he would fly down LHR-JNB overnight, conduct a day meeting, then fly back on the overnight to LHR, Always in F on BA.
He also commuted twice a week to Dusseldorf from London. So every few weeks he would fly LHR-DUS on Monday, DUS-LHR-JNB on Tuesday evening arriving on Wednesday AM, then Wednesday night into Thursday morning fly JNB-LHR-DUS, and then back to LHR on Friday evening.

A schoolfriend's father would do Concorde daytrips from London to NY in the late 1980s and earl 1990s. Leave on the morning 10.30am departure which lands in NYC around 9am. The evening arrival into LHR would leave JFK around 2.30pm.

dfw88

While not as crazy as some of the routings on here, I did nonrev trips like this several times this year (from Texas), but with a wife and 2-year-old in tow. That ups the ridiculousness level a bit.

invisible

Singapore-Tokyo-San Francisco-Houston->Sao Paulo -Porto Allegre-Rio-Houston-San Jose-Los Angeles-Hong Kong-Singapore.

Less than 6 days from beginning to end, two trips, one inside another. Office visits at Tokyo, Palo Alto, Houston, Sao, Porto Allegre.

Everything in Y according to company policy.

boss315

enviroian

would you have done that trip if it was in Y?

enviroian

went dfw-pvg for two nights this year. I was supposed to be there four nights but got bored and came home. I redeemed in advance SWU's on AA that cleared at booking. If they wouldn't have cleared at booking i would have never gone.

PandaSoPink

pinniped

Certainly won't be nearly as ridiculous as mileage runs here, but for the time and place a lot of people thought we were nuts: during the earliest years of online booking and NetsAAver fares on AA, we'd somewhat regularly buy weekend trips from ORD to Europe, usually buying on a Wednesday and flying out Thursday night. I was almost always paying with VDB vouchers, which you needed an in-person agent for at the time. The use of a voucher permitted the Web support line to put the NetsAAver fare on hold for a few hours. We walked across the street from our office to the CTO in Schaumburg where the agents were super chill and got to know us pretty well.

Probably did a dozen of these in 2 years, mostly in the winter or spring, avg R/T was low $300's. As a Platinum I earned tons of miles, although that wasn't the primary reason we were flying. We upgraded occasionally but in my 20s the back of the bus didn't bother me too much. The flights were usually half-empty anyway. We hit most of AA's nonstop TATL destinations this way.

Nick Art

geoshina

I've had my share of crazy journeys:

-GRU-FRA-OPO. Next day OPO-FRA-GRU. ( to spend holidays with friends) Arrived in GRU in the morning and in the evening I did GRU-DFW-HKG;

- GRU-DFW-SEA-LAX-DFW-GRU on a weekend ( a mileage run)

- This year I did GRU-FCO-AMS and the next day AMS-GRU ( to see a concert)

- Last year: GRU-LIS-MUC-ZAG-MUC-LIS-OPO (one day) - OPO-FRA-ZAG-LIS-GRU . This was to celebrate S. Joćo in Porto.

:P

Luco

On the Dutch InsideFlyer, a guy made a tripreport of one of his mileage-runs. It consisted of 5 overnight-flights and 1 overnight stay in a hotel in 7 days.

Wednesday: Amsterdam - Madrid - London - Singapore (overnight)
Thursday: Singapore - London (overnight)
Friday: London - Paris (night in Paris)
Saturday: Paris - London - Singapore - Sydney (2x overnight)
Monday: Sydney - Singapore - London (overnight)
Tuesday: London - Madrid - Amsterdam.

Total costs: 400€. He found a deal doing Madrid - Paris, with a layover in any airport in the world. It had to be a layover and not a stopover. He couldn't spend any more than 24 hours in 1 place. This earned him 70k miles.

Unfortunately I can't post URL's yet, but if you google Insideflyer mileage run sydney it should pop straight up.

CO FF

I've done countless LAX-NYC r/ts for a single meeting of half a day or less; they don't even register anymore.

But on the personal side:

LAX-SFO-BOS-LAX: In Spring, 2009, when VX was new in the BOS market, AA was doing 3xEQMs and $79 o/w fares LAX-BOS. I was ExecPlat then, but had just left a job and was not looking likely to requalify. So, I booked 3 r/ts, about 17k EQMs each - for $475; each one was LAX-SFO in the early evening, SFO-BOS redeye, and BOS-LAX at around 7am - 2 of them were consecutive days. Back then, BOS-LAX was a 767, with international seats (angle-flat IIRC), and my free ExecPlat upgrades cleared on all 6 longhauls, so I was getting a 2-3 hour nap in the "regular" domestic F seat, and then 5+ hours of solid shuteye on the angle-flat. The cabins were full of FTers - at least 9 of us went to the AC together on one of my trips.

The best part of it was one flight SFO-BOS, about 5 of us FTers in F got the flight attendant to announce that the flight to LAX was out of Gate {whatever it said on our BPs}. Laughter filled the cabin!

SfoDtwFlr

I've got a few
My craziest was:

• DTW-ORD-SFO (early morning)
• Went from the airport to a 4 hour mock flight for a friend's design firm whereby we were in a mock-up of a plane in a warehouse and gave feedback on their design ideas
• Home for a few hours
• SFO-DFW (redeye)
• Lounge for a few hours
• DFW-HKG
• Overnight
• Morning Meeting
• HKG-LAX-SFO

Another time on a mileage run did SFO-LAX-LHR, met up with some friends early evening until about 4am, flew back LHR-LAX-SFO around 2pm.

Finally, in the crazy routing category

• I once got two of my friends UA MP tickets back from Turkey on the following routing: ASR-IST (overnight)-MUC-LHR-YHZ-PHL-SFO
• I once did DTW-DCA-LGA (got a haircut in Manhattan) JFK-BRU-TXL-CDG-LIS and then drove 3 hours to southern Portugal