Here it is - ~48 hours to get to all capital airports in AUS flying VA

[MartinMemo]

This also made me think of people trying to do all the Sydney CityRail stations in a day. If anything it's harder!

How fast could you get around the world I wonder?

What would the rules be? Every single county in the world?

 

[CaviAck]

How fast could you get around the world I wonder?

Hopefully faster than 80 days...

What are the parameters? Cause I can think of SYD-DXB-LHR-LAX-SYD being probably the quickest out of Australia.

SYD-xDXB-LHR QF1 1700-0620 (+1)
LHR-LAX BA283 1025-1430
LAX-SYD QF12 2220-0720 (+2)

Total of 2 days 14 hours and 20 minutes from leaving to arriving in SYD on *O. There's a lot of dead time waiting for flights so a quicker option may be available if you use *A or *S or mix and match airlines regardless of alliance.

 

[MartinMemo]

Hopefully faster than 80 days...

What are the parameters? Cause I can think of SYD-DXB-LHR-LAX-SYD being probably the quickest out of Australia.

SYD-xDXB-LHR QF1 1700-0620 (+1)
LHR-LAX BA283 1025-1430
LAX-SYD QF12 2220-0720 (+2)

Total of 2 days 14 hours and 20 minutes from leaving to arriving in SYD on *O. There's a lot of dead time waiting for flights so a quicker option may be available if you use *A or *S or mix and match airlines regardless of alliance.

Im prob ignorant here, but I was under the impression someone was doing direct flights from AUS - LHR these days... Maybe air france?

 

[CaviAck]

Im prob ignorant here, but I was under the impression someone was doing direct flights from AUS - LHR these days... Maybe air france?

No one currently. The closest would be SYD-IST on Turkish Airlines planed to start next year. Besides Air France would fly AUS-CDG.

 

[MartinMemo]

No one currently. The closest would be SYD-IST on Turkish Airlines planed to start next year. Besides Air France would fly AUS-CDG.

Maybe I was dreaming... I could have sworn I once saw a flight MEL-CDG.

 

[CaviAck]

[-]
SYD-xDXB-LHR QF1 1700-0620 (+1)
LHR-LAX BA283 1025-1430
LAX-SYD QF12 2220-0720 (+2)
[/-]

Scratch that.
SYD-DXB QF8413/EK413 2145-0515 (+1)
DXB-LHR BA108 1005-1400
LHR-LAX BA269 1500-1905
LAX-SYD QF12 2220-0720 (+2)

Makes that 2 days 9 hours and 35 minutes.

If worried about the 60 minute connection at LHR, replace DXB-LHR BA108 with DXB-LHR QF8001/EK1 0745-1135. Doesn't change overall time taken though.

 

[Warks]

I think that route covers the general "around the world" rules passing through two antipodal points? Think of the sailing challenges where you have to go at least a certain distance north and south of the equator to qualify. If you just flew SYD-SCL-JNB-SYD I don't think you'd tick that box!

 

[docjames]

Is there a decent connection in dxb to allow

SYD-DXB-JFK-LAX-SYD?

 

[CaviAck]

I do this every month when I perform my weapons inspections

And that is why the UN is a frivolous waste of time and money ;P Especially if it's all in F!

 

[CaviAck]

Any updates on this?

 

[MartinMemo]

They didn't like our original proposal, and it's a lot harder than I expected to get approval to jump on a plane with a pocket camera and film your trip. Am working with a few people in PR and production to put together an actual professional proposal and will submit to them once we have something together.

 

[CaviAck]

Ah ok, well, looking eagerly forward to the results.