Scarlett
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...and like a challenge, here's where my mind wandered during a recent rather boring lecture / seminar / meeting (insert work event of your choice):
I wonder if it's possible to fly on all of the top ten US airlines in a single day (0001 - 2359hrs)?
First I had to work out what the top 10 airlines were. Off the top of my head I'd guessed 9 of them but didn't realize Allegiant was large enough:
AA
DL
UA
B6 - Jetblue
WN - Southwest
F9 - Frontier
AS - Alaska
NK - Spirit
HA - Hawaiian
G4 - Allegiant
After waiting until I had internet access (bored yes, but still had to pay attention!) I decided to play around with google flights and flightstats. But, can report that I couldn't make it work. Problems:
- an early enough morning departure (most airports have first flight around 0500)
- Spirit and Allegiant (lesser number of routes means harder to find timely connections)
- Including HA. (I was originally trying to start and end at the same airport, but including HA makes that (AFAIK) impossible because they don't have any tag flights in the continental US, so to include them means a trip to Hawaii).
- Most logical path was to start east coast and progressively move west to make the 'day' longer, but that's offset by the slightly longer flights to places like IAH, DFW, DEN, SLC
- I was using minimum connection time of 30mins.
Next time in the US with a day spare I might just see if I can do it for real rather than being a thought exercise. Except of course you'd have to be EXCEPTIONALLY LUCKY as each transit would have to be 30-60mins and the whole thing would be separate tickets, so as soon as there was a delay, that would likely be the end of that.
Anyway, my question for the questions forum, can it be done?
One of my failed attempts:
0050-0459 SJU-PHL F9
0600-0714 PHL-BOS B6
0800-0925 BOS-LGA DL
1000-1143 LGA-ORD UA
1225-1414 ORD-DEN NK
1450-1544 DEN-PHX AA
...WN and G4...
1859-2138 SFO-OGG AS (currently operated by VX, but with AS codeshare and they're all one company now...)
2259-2336 OGG-HNL HA
I wonder if it's possible to fly on all of the top ten US airlines in a single day (0001 - 2359hrs)?
First I had to work out what the top 10 airlines were. Off the top of my head I'd guessed 9 of them but didn't realize Allegiant was large enough:
AA
DL
UA
B6 - Jetblue
WN - Southwest
F9 - Frontier
AS - Alaska
NK - Spirit
HA - Hawaiian
G4 - Allegiant
After waiting until I had internet access (bored yes, but still had to pay attention!) I decided to play around with google flights and flightstats. But, can report that I couldn't make it work. Problems:
- an early enough morning departure (most airports have first flight around 0500)
- Spirit and Allegiant (lesser number of routes means harder to find timely connections)
- Including HA. (I was originally trying to start and end at the same airport, but including HA makes that (AFAIK) impossible because they don't have any tag flights in the continental US, so to include them means a trip to Hawaii).
- Most logical path was to start east coast and progressively move west to make the 'day' longer, but that's offset by the slightly longer flights to places like IAH, DFW, DEN, SLC
- I was using minimum connection time of 30mins.
Next time in the US with a day spare I might just see if I can do it for real rather than being a thought exercise. Except of course you'd have to be EXCEPTIONALLY LUCKY as each transit would have to be 30-60mins and the whole thing would be separate tickets, so as soon as there was a delay, that would likely be the end of that.
Anyway, my question for the questions forum, can it be done?
One of my failed attempts:
0050-0459 SJU-PHL F9
0600-0714 PHL-BOS B6
0800-0925 BOS-LGA DL
1000-1143 LGA-ORD UA
1225-1414 ORD-DEN NK
1450-1544 DEN-PHX AA
...WN and G4...
1859-2138 SFO-OGG AS (currently operated by VX, but with AS codeshare and they're all one company now...)
2259-2336 OGG-HNL HA
no way!! I don't think you could align the flights, even with minimum layovers. Not to mention the obvious problem docjames stated. One hiccup and your done.
