Ever fly somewhere just for the day?

[kdonnel]

I just booked a day trip from Atlanta to Philadelphia.

We leave Atlanta at 6am and arrive back in Atlanta at 11pm should all the flights happen on time.

The point of the trip is to as cheaply as possible try to take advantage of a status match that will hopefully result in a free 7 day cruise for two. The airfare is $100 round trip for the two of us and I used points to rent the car for the day. I am not sure if it will all work out but even if it does not, we will have had a fun day in Atlantic City for $100.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Yes for work not for fun

 

[robinb]

Yes. I flew from Milwaukee to Denver in March to pick up two Japanese Bobtail kittens. I was in the city (well, airport) for about 4 hours.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Vegas baby!
For work.
I never left the airport.

 

[pezgirlroy]

For work I used to have to fly down from NYC to Washington DC to file things back in the day.

 

[RedAngie]

Yes, to Boston and back the same day for a Bruins NHL game. Final weeks of the old Boston Garden.

From LA to San Francisco and back same day.

 

[MICKIMINI]

Yes, for work back in the "day". Not fun, but I did have a driver on the other end.

 

[soccerdad72]

Chicago, once for work. It's only an hour flight each way, so it wasn't uncommon for business folks to fly out on the 6am shuttle and return on the 7pm flight.

My wife travelled to Denver once to meet with a prospective client's CFO. The CFO was connecting through Denver, so they met in the United Club for a couple hours, then my wife flew back home that night. She never left the airport.

 

[pezgirlroy]

Yes, to Boston and back the same day for a Bruins NHL game. Final weeks of the old Boston Garden.

From LA to San Francisco and back same day.

As a Bruins Season ticket holder, I love this. I hope they won.

 

[neverlandsky]

A few places. Older relatives were pilots and had small planes.

 

[disneychrista]

Nope. Have only flown a few times, once for pleasure, twice for work. Never for a day trip. Both work trips were fly in, in the afternoon, fly out the next evening.

 

[YachtClubWoman]

Yes for work
Philadelphia to Raleigh Durham
Did it once - never again, to long of a day

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Personally, no...but my parents did it once for a wedding we all attended. They flew into LaGuardia around 10am, made it to the wedding in Manhattan at 2pm, and were on a flight home to Florida late that evening.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

No but I know a few people who have flown out of PHL to MCO in the morning, do Disney and then fly home at night. I’ve contemplated it if I find $25-50 flights through frontier.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I can recall doing that once when I was a teenager. I helped on a Danny Thomas fundraiser drive and was part of one of the top collecting teams. We were flown to LA (Hollywood) to meet him and have lunch, then back home. Also met Tommy Rettig.

Oh, I forgot, my family flew from northern CA to Orange County (back when airfares made sense) one year for Thanksgiving. Yes, just for the day.

 

[jo-jo]

No but I know a few people who have flown out of PHL to MCO in the morning, do Disney and then fly home at night. I’ve contemplated it if I find $25-50 flights through frontier.

I read a story of a father and child ( under 2), fly to Disney for the day. No charge for child. Back during magical express day.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I read a story of a father and child ( under 2), fly to Disney for the day. No charge for child. Back during magical express day.

I feel like a lot of NJ people do this. There’s a few trip reports on it on the boards.

 

[Rogue1677x]

In a helicopter, yes. Flew from from MA to VT for lunch.

Haven't done same day trips in planes, but have left first flight out and come back first flight back, Boston to Orlando.

 

[bcla]

Used to be pretty common back in the 70s and 80s. I remember my dad being on a work day trip to San Diego where he came back the same day.

There were a whole slew of airlines that flew between the SFO/OAK/LAX and LAX/SNA/SAN corridor. Some airlines (I'm pretty sure PSA and possibly United) even had at least 1 flight per hour for 24 hours in each direction for SFO-LAX. There was also Air California.

I did a daytrip myself last year flying OAK-LAX-OAK, just because I needed a day off to decompress and Southwest had a fare sale. I also had a goal to spend as little cash as possible on the trip other than restaurant tips and transportation - by using restaurant gift cards from credit card points. I think my cash/credit card outlay that day was less than $10 including public transportation, which was all on an LA Metro day pass. I ended up spending less than Southwest 2200 points (plus $11.20 mandatory fees) for the airfare. I'd gotten the 25,000 point bonus from SW for the meltdown the previous winter. I think went through Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and Marina del Rey. It wasn't too bad although it got pretty windy and I heard there was freakish snow in some parts of Southern California that day, even though it wasn't cold.

 

[jtopp]

DW and I did the day in disney last year. A fun time, but a little hectic if you try to do too much.