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UA used to operate a 727 flying ORD-OAK-SFO. A couple years ago they used to operate a 744 on LAX-SFO (Saturdays only).
UA used to operate mainline ROC-BUF. (Okay, distance isn't that different from DEN-COS, but ROC and BUF aren't exactly UA hubs.) UA flies a daily roundtrip MVD-EZE on a 767. LH flies a 747 AUH-DXB. |
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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...
Originally Posted by ben1979
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
Ah, for the good ol' days <sigh>........... |
Back in the mid-90s, when ATA was still fledgling, I flew MDW-PBI-MIA. The weird thing about it, is people got on the flight in PBI. I later learned the flight was returning to Chicago after stopping in Miami, but it still puzzled me that they stopped in West Palm Beach before Miami, rather than after Miami. A more logical route would have been MDW-MIA-PBI-MDW.
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There used to be a helicopter service between London Heathrow and Gatwick.
PIA and Indian Airlines operate between Lahore (Pakistan) and Delhi (India) - actual flying time was around 40 minute flight. In the 80's I flew from LHR to Hull (around 200 miles away). But flight first landed at Norwich Airport where one person boarded the aircraft. |
Originally Posted by gleff
UA flies a daily roundtrip MVD-EZE on a 767.
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There have been flights between BUF-YYZ, less than 50 nautical miles, but 100 if you drive. Air Transit was doing repositioning on this route a couple of years ago, don't know if they sold seats on it though.
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For sheer improbability I'm a fan of MH's 744 service on KUL-JNB-CPT-EZE v.v.
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Originally Posted by rkkwan
With the widening of US59 done all the way from Downtown to Humble, getting to IAH is really much easier and faster than before. And if you worry about traffic getting through Downtown, the 610 E. Loop is never congested. Yes, Gulf Freeway is still a mess at times, but the "problem area" is much shorter than it used to be.
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Until it was changed to EWR-ARN-KUL, I was always intrigued by EWR-DXB-KUL on MH. Other eyecatching routes for me:
BDL-SFO on UA (discontinued) LAX-YYZ on El Al JFK-GRU on JL BOS-PVC on Cape Air in a Cessna (Wings, anyone?) RDU-LGW (Glaxo shuttle) on AA |
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)
I thought of that phrase earlier this week when I boarded flight NW1276 - Boise ID to Providence RI! (I suspect most traffic on that flight will have been to or from the intermediate stop, MSP) Intermediate stops don't count. You're describing a Boise-MSP/MSP-Providence flight, not surprising at all. |
Originally Posted by swag
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. Shortly before 9/11, or before they went out of business, or something around that time, TWA started DCA-LAX. I thought that was an odd route for them. I was scheduled on it but had change of plans . . . . |
Originally Posted by Gardyloo
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.
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Ema-lhr
not very long ago BD used to operate the above flight: a distance smaller than 100 miles, taking about 40 mins. EMA is situated between three cities (Nottingham, Leicester and Derby), all of which have direct high-speed trains to London that take just over 1 hour city centre to city centre!
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Originally Posted by canes98
Back in the mid-90s, when ATA was still fledgling, I flew MDW-PBI-MIA. The weird thing about it, is people got on the flight in PBI. I later learned the flight was returning to Chicago after stopping in Miami, but it still puzzled me that they stopped in West Palm Beach before Miami, rather than after Miami. A more logical route would have been MDW-MIA-PBI-MDW.
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Originally Posted by Delta Hog
Shortly before 9/11, or before they went out of business, or something around that time, TWA started DCA-LAX. I thought that was an odd route for them. I was scheduled on it but had change of plans . . . .
The DOT requires a small possibility of connections at the other end for a DCA perimeter rule exemption. |
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