Flights You're Surprised Exist
Oct 30, 2004 | 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by B747-437B
IMHO, the world's most obscure route operated by a widebody aircraft is Air India's service CCJ-AAN-SLL-CCJ operated by an Airbus 310-300.
I'm willing to bet that 99% of the world hasn't heard of even ONE of the cities served.
For the record it operates from Kozhikode, India to Al-Ain, UAE to Al-Salalah, Oman.
I'm willing to bet that 99% of the world hasn't heard of even ONE of the cities served.
For the record it operates from Kozhikode, India to Al-Ain, UAE to Al-Salalah, Oman.
Oct 30, 2004 | 5:53 pm
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Originally Posted by synd
sometimes i kind of wished they had a sjc-sfo lol! i hate commuting to sfo everytime i am going somewhere, but then at least there is a lounge i can use...
in the early 1990s i flew a SJC-SFO once on a small turboprop. we would climb, and before reaching crusing altitude we would start our approach. i'm fairly positive that it was on UA, but it may have been on AA
Oct 30, 2004 | 7:24 pm
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Originally Posted by Aviatrix
I read in a newspaper article somewhere that the UK travel industry uses the phrase "Norwich to Knock" to describe unlikely routes (i.e., routes from one out-of-the-way small town to another)
There are several LCC routes from London that surprise me - Blackpool is one. I always assumed that it was only Scots and Northerners up there (it always was when we used to drive down from Paisley...) ScotAirways' LCY-DND service, too. Southampton to the Scilly Isles. And how come we now have three airlines (SkyEurope, AUA and Easy) competing on LON-BTS?
On longer distances, too, there are some obscure ones from the UK. BRS-EWR? RDU-LGW? LGW-JIB? I also note that Astraeus have started up flights to Simferopol and Uralsk.
Oct 30, 2004 | 7:27 pm
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Originally Posted by floris_FRA
I once flew Miami - Ft Lauderdale..... 
Everybody used to fly DAL-FTW(I'm not sure what the airport code was for Greater Southwest
) before DFW. People from one wouldn't be caught dead getting off in the other. AA's HDQ buildings now sit beside the old Greater Southwest runway... Amon Carter Blvd.
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Oct 30, 2004 | 9:10 pm
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I am pretty sure I flew a DCA-IAD-DFW route on AA in 1984, most likely on a 727.
DCA-IAD's 23 airmiles according to Great Circle mapper. A mile shorter than IAH-HOU, but still twice as far as SFO-OAK.
DCA-IAD's 23 airmiles according to Great Circle mapper. A mile shorter than IAH-HOU, but still twice as far as SFO-OAK.
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Oct 31, 2004 | 8:56 am
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Not a micro-haul but in the spirit of the original post...
In the mid-late 90's, TWA used to fly once a day each way between two non-hubs: DFW-MSY (10am) and MSY-DFW (10pm). My understanding was that they were repositioning a plane used for JFK-MSY and then DFW-STL.
I always called that flight the Jazzfest special. In a market dominated by AA and WN, the MSY-DFW flight was the only one that left late enough in the evening to allow a full day at Fest; plus the DFW-MSY was timed perfectly to get you to Fest around noon.
In the mid-late 90's, TWA used to fly once a day each way between two non-hubs: DFW-MSY (10am) and MSY-DFW (10pm). My understanding was that they were repositioning a plane used for JFK-MSY and then DFW-STL.
I always called that flight the Jazzfest special. In a market dominated by AA and WN, the MSY-DFW flight was the only one that left late enough in the evening to allow a full day at Fest; plus the DFW-MSY was timed perfectly to get you to Fest around noon.
Oct 31, 2004 | 10:28 am
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Chalk's Ocean Airways still flies MPB (Downtown Miami)-FLL. Total flight time is fifteen minutes. It allows passengers in Miami to connect to Chalk's Bahamas flights from FLL. Chalk's is building a new terminal at MPB, so operations are limited now, though in the past they offered MPB non-stops to the Bahamas.
Oct 31, 2004 | 11:19 am
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Oct 31, 2004 | 2:55 pm
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Eastern European carriers in Soviet days always used to have some astounding flights to all continents - CSA for example operated from Prague to such widespread points as Conakry in central Africa or Havana in Cuba.
Some of the Eastern Bloc African operations hopped through a whole bizarre range of points that varied from year to year as friendly African dictators came and went !
Some of the Eastern Bloc African operations hopped through a whole bizarre range of points that varied from year to year as friendly African dictators came and went !
Oct 31, 2004 | 3:57 pm
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I am intrigued by BA 8498 and 8499, DMM-BAH-DMM. 54 miles each way; the equipment is listed in the oneworld electronic timetable as "bus." Not "Airbus," just "bus." I guess everyone rides in coach.