Fun Question of the week #4

[SpaceMtnFan]

Hey there Dissers here is you fun question of the week. What was the longest flight you ever been on and where did you go?. In 2005 I flew to St Louis from Columbus Ohio. the flight which included A 1 hour layover at Chicago-Midway Airport was 2 hours 30 minutes. I flew on Southwest Airlines

 

[BriarRosie]

My longest flights were from Chicago O'Hare to either LAX, John Wayne Airport, or Long Beach Airport for trips to Disneyland.

 

[Ragrobyn]

I flew from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

27 hours of flying time and layovers. Edmonton to Vancouver. Vancouver to Honolulu. Honolulu to Sydney. Sydney ot Melbourne. AND I thought it would be fun to bring my 7 month old What was I thinking?

I stayed for a month and have never been back. I just cannot even entertain the idea of that flight again

 

[jeanigor]

San Diego to Detroit, as a 10 year old, alone. I met a girl about my age that did it all the time. Her parents were divorced and she flew back and forth solo every other week or so.

 

[SpaceMtnFan]

I flew from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

27 hours of flying time and layovers. Edmonton to Vancouver. Vancouver to Honolulu. Honolulu to Sydney. Sydney ot Melbourne. AND I thought it would be fun to bring my 7 month old What was I thinking?

I stayed for a month and have never been back. I just cannot even entertain the idea of that flight again

27 Hours?. Man I thought I was bad. Durring my 1995 trip home from Toronto to Columbus Ohio my flight from Toronto to Columbus was canceled because the Airline (Air Ontario) went on strike and did not tell us untill I was about to fly home. I had to sit in Toronto for 4 hours then fly to Detroit on Northwest then do a 3 hour Layover in Detroit before arriving home at 8pm. I was supposed to leave Toronto at 2pm So it took me 6 hours (Including the 2 layovers) to get home. I just dont understand why Air Ontario did not tell anyone or said that they were on stike long before I got to the Airport to go home

 

[FeelsLikeHome]

The longest flight I've been on was from Nashville to Seattle, and I believe it took approximately 5 hours. We were going from Iowa to Seattle, but our layover was in Nashville. The flight home was much shorter, because the layover was in Minneapolis instead.

 

[Decorated_Dust]

The longest flight of my life was when I went on a mission trip to Ukraine and had to fly from Ft. Lauderdale to JFK to Kiev airport. The flight there was no big deal, since one of the ways to combat jet lag is to sleep on the plane ride there, and stay awake on the plane ride back. Unfortunately, I only slept three hours of the 10 hour flight, but I was still high enough on Dramamine that I did not really notice.

The ride back was the adventure, since I made myself very caffinated for it. First, I need to clarify that we were flying Delta, which is Pete's favorite airline. Well, about half of the 300+ seats on the plane were taken by Hassidic Jews. Now, I love the Hassidics and think they are wonderful people, but this particular group of Hassidics were the most obnoxious people I have ever seen. There were a couple that refused to sit by our team members because we were women (our team was all girls) so we had to switch seats around in a way that caused some of us (including myself) to sit by strangers for ten hours. In preparation for take-off, they would not sit down, despite about five announcements from the flight attendant. Finally they did sit and we took off, but about 20 seconds after take-off, several were up and around again. Also, along the course of the flight they kind of took over from the flight attendant and started distributing their extra food to the other passengers. These were only two of several stories that made this flight the most eventful of my life.

This was very amusing to us, but it was also irritating because their antics before take-off were the reason we had to sprint across JFK to get to our connecting flight (which we did make, but barely). The thing that made it worse was that all of our team was either getting sick or getting over being sick, so sprinting was not pleasant. As you can imagine, neither was sitting in a confined space with 100+ ADD Hassidics and Delta's craptastic bathrooms/service/entertainment/food for 10 hours.

 

[MerMom60_94]

My longest flight was from Boston to San Francisco. That was 20+ years ago. I believe it was a 5 hour flight. I went there on business but would love to take a trip back some day just for a vacation. DH hates flying so I have yet to convince him he could stay on a plane that long. San Francisco and that area were absolutely beautiful, though.

 

[AnneR]

My longest flight was also my first airplane flight. Dulles International to London. I think it was over 6 hours but when you are a just graduated high school senior on a trip full of high school kids, details tend to escape you. Actually it was a very memorable trip but the flight was not one of the highlights. I do remember on the return trip we had some problems engaging the landing gear.

NO I will not tell you the year but suffice to say it was not recent.

 

[airman]

I just flew from Paris to Detroit, almost 9 hour flight, after a vacation starting in London. I have taken several flights to London, back in my Air Force days and I learned to really dislike long flights. A 2+ hour flight from Detroit to Orlando is more my kind of length now.

 

[kafitty]

Boston to London...which may have meant BOS to JFK and then across the pond...i don't really remember, it was years ago! but man that was a long flight.

 

[wdwscout]

I guess mine was about 9 hours- Milan, Italy to JFK- way back in 1976.

It always feels longer coming home from a trip- and this was the end of a 3 week "tour" of Europe. My roommate and I (both 19 yrs old and totally naive travelers ) started in Amsterdam, went through several cities in Germany, Austria and Italy. By the time we were to fly home, we were completely spent!
All I remember was it was a small, very crowded plane- and we circled JFK for quite some time on top of that 9 hours at the end. So close, and yet so far.

My son had a 19 hour flight to Japan a couple years ago with a group of high school students. Philadelphia to Tokyo, with a layover in Dallas I believe. But he actually enjoyed that- they sat on the floor & played cards, watched movies and slept.

 

[*NikkiBell*]

I took a trip to Europe during my senior year in high school. I believe we flew into Germany or France and then went from England back home. That was the longest ever! We also visited several other countries.

 

[auroralark]

I've never flown anywhere yet except back and forth to FL, which is not a long flight at all from NY - a little longer than 2 hours. I did fly to FL from RI this past May though. I guess that would technically be the longest flight. Whoo hoo, real exciting. When I fly to San Francisco in December, that'll be my new longest flight.

 

[Hpyhiker]

Me, Atlanta to Honolulu several times.

My wife logged Atlanta to Tokyo.

My grandaughter (11 at the time) Atlanta to Melbourne.

Obviously all were round trip.

I don't remember the hours on any of them.

 

[ScubaMickey]

Flight from Orlando, Florida to LAX. Short lay over in LAX and during the lay over we had the opportunity to watch a TV Pilot being filmed over and over at the check-in counter. From LAX to Papeete, Tahiti and then a short flight on to Moorea. Took FOREVER!!! But the it was a vacation of a life time!!!

Scubamickey

 

[twelveone]

My longest flight lasted about 30 hours including layovers. We flew from Fort Walton Beach, Florida to Surabaya, Indonesia. We had stops at LAX and Honolulu, Hawaii. It was a rather uneventful flight, but the in-flight meals were certainly lacking in taste.

 

[cyberbox2]

In 2005 I flew to Lebanon & Egypt. I left from Dulles international airport at 5pm on a Friday on Air France, landed at charles de gaulle airport at 6:30am the next morning. The plane arrived late in France and we had to run to our connecting flight from charles de gaulle airport to Beirut, Lebanon which took another 5 hours!

I must say that I did enjoy the in-flight food that was served while on Air France, I believe it was lamb cutlets, mashed potatoes and green beans.