What was your longest flight on a narrow body plane?
Apr 12, 2006, 8:24 pm
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Currently it's PHL-SEA on A320 and 757. Anyone familular with US Airways planes knows their seat backs are shorter so there isn't much of a head rest. I will have MAN-EWR on a 757 this summer.
Apr 12, 2006, 8:55 pm
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LHR-LAX on BA. It was a narrowbody upstairs 
As for real narrowbodies, I have four flights on AA 757s between BOS and SFO coming up...
As for real narrowbodies, I have four flights on AA 757s between BOS and SFO coming up...
Apr 12, 2006, 9:08 pm
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I just did Newark-Berlin on a CO 757-200. 3980 miles. I was exit row on the way there. No such luck on the return, which is like 9 hours.
Still beats connecting though... I got stuck in AMS 24 hours coming back from Prague last year.
Longest 737 flight I have done is either EWR-SFO or EWR-SJC on CO. On a A319: JFK-YVR on AC.
Still beats connecting though... I got stuck in AMS 24 hours coming back from Prague last year.
Longest 737 flight I have done is either EWR-SFO or EWR-SJC on CO. On a A319: JFK-YVR on AC.
Apr 12, 2006, 9:18 pm
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A bit off point, but in some ways worse. Jungle Jet from Savannah to DFW (flight no longer offered on AE). In the back. Bad weather. Barfing passengers. Lots of rerouting around storms. Stop in Mississippi for fuel. Narrow body real airliner sounds good by comparison. The repressed memory is flooding back.
Apr 12, 2006, 9:37 pm
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I have a friend that took Aeroflot in the mid-80's, on a TU-154, 6 across:
Moscow-Simperopol-Cairo-Dar Es Salaan-Antanarive (madagascar)...
i'm about 80% sure that was the routing in those days. He originated in Paris, and it was 1/4 the price to go via Moscow, than direct from Paris at the time.
Moscow-Simperopol-Cairo-Dar Es Salaan-Antanarive (madagascar)...
i'm about 80% sure that was the routing in those days. He originated in Paris, and it was 1/4 the price to go via Moscow, than direct from Paris at the time.
Apr 12, 2006, 10:02 pm
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So far my birthday trip to vegas on march 6th, 2006. We had head winds so it took the whole 4 hours. I havent been on a flight that long since I was 8, and Ive only flown 3 times in my life so far! I was on SWA MDW-LAS-MDW 737-700
Apr 15, 2006, 1:03 am
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Definitely Luxembourg
Originally Posted by BearX220
More like Luxembourg, not Lichtenstein; Luxenbourg was Icelandic's main touchdown point in continental Europe during the '60s, when students and backpackers flew them via KEF for the heavy discounts (I believe Icelandic was a non-IATA carrier at the time and did not observe the fare regulations of the other transatlantic airlines). DC-8s from US gateways to KEF; 727s and perhaps DC-7s onward to the continent.
Apr 15, 2006, 1:09 pm
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Ariana Royal Afghan airways LHR- Kabul
LHR to Kabul on a combi B727 (freight in the front compartment) 1974. Stops along the way included Frankfurt, Beirut, Teheran.
The crew was american (pan am), and the food was excellent as I recall.
The crew was american (pan am), and the food was excellent as I recall.
