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| single | 8-Mar-1999 | personal experience | North79 | by votes | 73 | 12 | 64.7% |
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| User | Comment |
|---|---|
| North79 | posted 8-Mar-1999 12:53pm Toronto-Hong Kong, Toronto-Tokyo and Toronto-Sydney. |
| bill | posted 8-Mar-1999 1:30pm Boston->San Francisco or LA (6 hours) |
| romkey | posted 8-Mar-1999 2:00pm The longest individual leg of a flight I've been on was 12.5 hours between Tokyo and New York. I think it was about 2 or 2.5 hours from Hong Kong to Tokyo, and then about an hour from New York to Boston, so that'd take it to 16 hours. |
| drdt | posted 8-Mar-1999 2:19pm Boston-London-Athens |
| doom | posted 8-Mar-1999 3:07pm Boston-St. Louis-Hawaii. I really wanted to jump. |
| milktree | posted 8-Mar-1999 3:27pm ugh, Boston to Hong Kong by way of New York, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Seoul. |
| grmbrand | posted 8-Mar-1999 5:07pm To Israel. And we were subject to the worst in-flight movie of all time. It was so horrendous, whenever I think about it, all I can remember is something like the sound of a tin fork being dragged across a blackboard for about two hours. |
| steve | posted 8-Mar-1999 5:07pm Just barely into the 5-10 hour range: non-stops between Boston and San Francisco. (And, not to dog or anything, but your explanation confused me. Of course, I'm having a "stupid day" today.) |
| they | posted 8-Mar-1999 7:20pm From Cincinnati Airport in Kentucky to Florida... there and back... I prefer driving. |
| 4077mash | posted 8-Mar-1999 9:15pm i will be on a 17 hour flight this Friday. Think of me and how much pain I'll be in. |
| robin | posted 8-Mar-1999 11:34pm The one I had food poisoning on. |
| Resy | posted 9-Mar-1999 9:07am I don't know the exact time. We flew from Athens Greece to Great Falls Montana with a change of plane in New York. |
| dab | posted 9-Mar-1999 12:58pm My longest trip went: Montana - Boston, Boston - Amsterdam - India, India - Hong Kong - Tokyo, Tokyo - Seattle - Montana. One of those legs was probably more than 10 hours; I tried to sleep and ignore it. |
| jonathan | posted 10-Mar-1999 9:32am I've had a few really long flights were the flying time was somewhere between 20 and 25 hours, the longest was Uberlandia, Brasil to Sydney, Australia via Sao Paulo/Buenos Aires/Rio Gallegos, Argentina/Auckland. We got within 2000 miles of the South Pole but I couldn't convince the flight attendants to as the pilot to turn left so's I could see it. Spending that much time on planes and in aiports makes me feel more disconnected from what's happening in the rest of my world than anything else I've done. I do enjoy getting pampered, though! |
| North79 | posted 10-Mar-1999 9:45pm **johnathan, really? I love long flights. Then again, I only get to do them every few years, but I love airports, take off, the window seat, landing, and travel in general. Even the movies they show. The food has become much better recently, too. |
| jonathan | posted 16-Mar-1999 2:29pm The disconnection comes from not being in contact with the people I know or being able to do any of the things that I usually do. You can get that experience by heading out into the wilderness, but when you're in the midst of airports & airplanes and all that high tech equipment it can be very disconcerting. I've found myself more and more often taking advantage of phones on the ground and on the plane to call people up to chat and at least get some form of contact with the world I know. I've been spending >50% of my time on the road for a couple of years now, to the point where my friends are often surprised that I'm in the country. I'm reducing that percentage, but I still look forward to the idea of flying to some place I've never been before. |
| phi | posted 18-Mar-1999 9:16am Are you only counting time in the air? Then the longest is probably Boston -- La Serena (Chile) by way of Dallas, Santiago, and Copiapo. If time on the ground but still in an airplane counts, the return (by way of Santiago, Lima, Miami, and New York) is longer. |
| mandy | posted 25-Mar-1999 9:45pm Montana to England round trip with a stop over in Chicago....8 hours each way...I've done it 4 times.... |
| lara | posted 26-Mar-1999 10:35am Montana to Boston with a stop in Minneapolis usually takes me five hours of actual flying time (although I don't actually get to Boston until 10 hours after I leave my house in Montana). I'd be very interested in knowing how I could get to England in eight hours! |
| FruityLoOp | posted 29-Mar-1999 1:48pm seattle-antartic peninsula is the furthest I've ever gone |
| mandy | posted 31-Mar-1999 9:15pm 8 hours across the water Lara...I suppose I should have made myself more clear.... |
| pandora | posted 3-Apr-1999 10:10am From here to Quito, that took a while. |
| mags | posted 25-Apr-1999 3:14pm flying to israel |
| platyman | posted 3-May-1999 8:40am Not really a single flight, but still. Six hours Boston-LA, twelve hours LA-Auckland, two hours Auckland-Christchurch. |
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