Your longest trip point-to-point?

[744]

BNE SYD MEL SIN BOM FCO FRA all on QF 742s all the way in Y.

 

[Himeno]

Some crazy trips here. Some of them would have easily lasted 3 or even 4 days door-to-door.
Quickstatus takes the cake, though, with their 1,000+h hours.

I did the 3 day, 8 sector HEL-MEL to save 3 days of hotel/food costs and use up all the allowed sectors on the DONE3/DAS13.
I stored bags at LHR for the LHR-DXB-LHR and had to collect and recheck at NRT to change between tickets.

The NRT immigration was confused why I'd go HKG-SIN via NRT.

That trip, I slept in the old CX SIN Skyview lounge waiting for the then morning QF PER flight.

 

[Human]

Just after the borders opened my wife and I flew SYD-SIN-CDG-CPH-KEF to Iceland. Problem was, with COVID paranoia rampant, we needed to arrive 5 hours before the flight to get a PCR test, wait for the results, and then check in 4 hours before the flight. Add that to 3 hours in Singapore, 4 hours in Paris and 7 hours in Copenhagen, then 2 hours at the airport in Keflavik because my wife's luggage was missing, and a one-hour transfer to our hotel in Reykjavik ... something like 50 hours, of which about 25 hours were actually in the air.

The good news was that we flew Business from Sydney to Paris and had lounge access at every airport we transited at, so we were relatively (with the emphasis on "relatively") fresh when we arrived. Fun times.

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Not my longest but one that sticks to mind is

Akl-sin-bkk-sin-ewr-sin-bkk-sin-akl-lax-sfo with all transits before my first night in a hotel at sfo. NYC to California the long way!

Sin-ewr vv were inaugural flights, and the flight back sfo-akl after one night in sfo was the 2nd flight on the route.

 

[drcam]

I did SYD-KUL-CMB-DOH-BOS in 2016. Maximum was 10 hours in the business lounge at Doha. The J fare from CMB-BOS return was a mere $A2550 and was on a quadruple points promotion, used the points for a one-way QF PE redemption HKG-MEL!

 

[offshore171]

What's been a long one way trip for you?

Sydney to Bermuda

 

[Warks]

Raleigh, NC, the Carolinians might get upset!

Argh. Typo. I couldn't forget it was NC as the locals kept reminding me how much better NC was than SC...

 

[mbell1510]

Longest journey time was a 29-hour trip from BNE to CDG via Guangzhou (CAN), which included a lovely 6-hour layover in the terminal with no Wi-Fi (needed a Chinese number to get a code) or lounge access.

Also had a 28 hour trip with Cathay Pacific from YYZ-HKG-SYD, which had a four-hour layover in Hong Kong. YUL-JFK-LAX-BNE was about 27 hours for me.

 

[NM]

BNE-SYD-SIN-FRA-LGW-RDU ticketed as part of a LONE4 back in 2000.

Twas the week after the Sydney Olympics and there was nary a seat to be found east-bound out of Australia. So I was off to Raleigh the in the wrong direction. Longest connection was about 4 hours in LGW. It was a long hard journey in Y. Thankfully I had lounge access at each port along the way, though I was ready for a decent meal after nothing but economy means and lounge snacks for about 35 hours of traveling.

Of course my UK work colleague who was joining me in Raleigh was on the same flight LGW-RDU and our UK business had different travel policy, so he was seating in J and I was down the back. The lounge staff at LGW took pity on me and blocked me an entire row of 4 seats in the centre block so I was at least horizontal for much of the Trans-Atlantic leg.

 

[Quickstatus]

BNE-SYD-SIN-FRA-LGW-RDU

5 BP?

 

[NM]

5 BP?

From memory, issued BNE-SYD-SIN-FRA at checkin at BNE, then collected FRA-LGW-RDU in FRA, and had LGW-RDU re-issued with seat change at LGW lounge.

 

[trooper]

Sydney- HAMS STIRLING - Diego Garcia (fuel) - Muscat. 10 days or so? Hey..you said TRIP... not FLIGHT!

 

[AIRwin]

BNE-MEL-SCL-GRU-MEX-VER

 

[MDC]

LGW-MCO-DFW-LAX-AKL-SYD-BNE. All Y, no stop overs, mostly different airlines.

It was very early in my career and started as 2-3 day project in Sydney, then to the US for a project for a few weeks... then I was asked to go the UK for another short project. I was too junior to push back, and the company too tight on budget to pay for a more direct flight home when they had already booked return flights all the way.

 

[WilsonM]

I don't know if this counts, but on Thursday I do DPS-SYD-LAX-ORD-CLT-EWR-SIN-CGK without a night in a hotel. I just really really wanted to get to Jakarta it seems

 

[NM]

I don't know if this counts, but on Thursday I do DPS-SYD-LAX-ORD-CLT-EWR-SIN-CGK without a night in a hotel. I just really really wanted to get to Jakarta it seems

I think we have a winner!! I hope you are the pointy end for at least some of those sectors, but of course that is where I would expect you to be .

23,311 miles on connecting flights! That's dedication for a 611 mile journey!

 

[tdimdad]

I don't know if this counts, but on Thursday I do DPS-SYD-LAX-ORD-CLT-EWR-SIN-CGK without a night in a hotel. I just really really wanted to get to Jakarta it seems

How many hours door to door to your final destination? I wonder if your average speed exceed swimming across to Jakarta? ;-)

 

[WilsonM]

I think we have a winner!! I hope you are the pointy end for at least some of those sectors, but of course that is where I would expect you to be .

23,311 miles on connecting flights! That's dedication for a 611 mile journey!

So I have 2 nights in hotels at either end at DPS and CGK, but the breakdown is as follows:

SYD-DPS JQ Y
DPS-SYD QF Y (hopefully upgrade to J)
SYD-LAX AA PE
LAX-ORD AA Y (MCE)
ORD-CLT-EWR AA Dom F
EWR-SIN SQ PE
SIN-CGK SQ Y
CGK-SYD QF J

How many hours door to door to your final destination? I wonder if your average speed exceed swimming across to Jakarta? ;-)

Between DPS and CGK, I have 48.5 hours in planes and about 25 hours in layovers, so 63.5 hours total to get to Jakarta. That's an average speed of 9.62 miles an hour. For context, a competitive marathon runner's speed is about 10 miles an hour

 

[NM]

So I have 2 nights in hotels at either end at DPS and CGK, but the breakdown is as follows:

SYD-DPS JQ Y
DPS-SYD QF Y (hopefully upgrade to J)
SYD-LAX AA PE
LAX-ORD AA Y (MCE)
ORD-CLT-EWR AA Dom F
EWR-SIN SQ PE
SIN-CGK SQ Y
CGK-SYD QF J

Amazing. All on one booking/PNR/ticket? Hopefully all the connections come through, especially for different airlines/alliances.

 

[henrus]

something like 50 hours, of which about 25 hours were actually in the air.

Seeing this post reminds my of crazy covid travel. During covid in December 2021:

Left home at 6am
Drove to the airport arriving around 7:30am
Queued for covid test that opened at 8am
Finally swabbed at 10:40am (yes waited for 2hrs+) then shuttle to Domestic
Flew Brisbane to Sydney at 2:10pm arriving 4:45pm
Flew Sydney to Tokyo at 9:35pm arriving 5:10am (+1)
~6hr layover in Tokyo (couldn't leave the airport due to Covid, and this was the shortest transit)
Departed Tokyo at 11:30am and arrived London at 3:40pm (same day)
~4hr layover in London (shortest transit possible due to lack of flights)
Flew London at 7:30pm to Geneva arriving 10:05pm
Finally checked into the Movenpick Geneva Airport around 10:40pm

All up it was almost 50 hours door to door.