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What commercial flight route has the biggest number of stops/layovers?
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56 hours! Wow.
My worst was 42 hours (with an 8 month old baby) going from the US to New Zealand via Australia. It included an unscheduled 10 hours in SYD due to Virgin Australia not understanding visa regulations for New Zealand. VA tried to have us sent back to the US and Australian customs ended up giving the airline a five figure fine due to how long they delayed us. The thought of another 15 hour flight with a baby after 38 hours was not a happy one...
My worst was 42 hours (with an 8 month old baby) going from the US to New Zealand via Australia. It included an unscheduled 10 hours in SYD due to Virgin Australia not understanding visa regulations for New Zealand. VA tried to have us sent back to the US and Australian customs ended up giving the airline a five figure fine due to how long they delayed us. The thought of another 15 hour flight with a baby after 38 hours was not a happy one...
I once flew from Hawaii to the middle of Russia, booked last moment due to an emergency.
5 different flights to get there, 4 to return.
45 hours to get there, 36 hours to get back.
Crying babies next to me on 3 of the flights.
Worst flying experience ever.
5 different flights to get there, 4 to return.
45 hours to get there, 36 hours to get back.
Crying babies next to me on 3 of the flights.
Worst flying experience ever.
Not flying, but my worst travel experience ever was a 30 hour bus ride from Ouagadougou to Cape Coast. It's normally a bit shorter, but our bus was held up by highway robbers, who took all of my money.
Topper :) Though I would guess many developing world travel experiences are bad, while we are talking about first world problems here.
If you're including non-flight travel, I don't think you can beat Pitcairn Island in terms of sheer PITA-factor to get there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7MWxADnko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7MWxADnko
Haha, I was originally going to comment about how you can always find a topper online. But in my case I get the story (no one was physically harmed, at least, and the police got there quickly). I'll take that over op's 81 hours of airline travel.
well, at least your life sounds much more exciting than mine.
curious, how much does an emergency ticket like that cost?
curious, how much does an emergency ticket like that cost?
The cheapest one-way ticket from HNL to CEK (Chelyabinsk) tomorrow costs $2100. Getting there as quickly as possible (so leaving today and taking only 35h to get there) costs $3k.
Source: your favourite meta-search. And since I work for one, I won't link any :).
Source: your favourite meta-search. And since I work for one, I won't link any :).
It was around $3-4K, in the summer, and it was from Kauai.
He's probably just a Russian who got disturbed on his vacation, you might be overestimating the excitement.
If we're sharing, my longest one to date is:
Cuzco - Lima (long layover, we got to visit Museo Larco and eat pizza) - Panama - Dominicana (technical stop, but we had to disembark) - Frankfurt - Moscow.
It was pretty painless, I only regret missing one lunch by being asleep.
If we're sharing, my longest one to date is:
Cuzco - Lima (long layover, we got to visit Museo Larco and eat pizza) - Panama - Dominicana (technical stop, but we had to disembark) - Frankfurt - Moscow.
It was pretty painless, I only regret missing one lunch by being asleep.
As alluded to in the stack overflow comments, Carl de Marcken (ITA Chief Scientist) wrote some code to determine the longest possible shortest path between two airports with scheduled flights. At that time (circa 2000) the answer was Wasu, New Guinea to Peawanuck, Ontario. The best you could do was something like 48 hours and involved a very large number of flights. On a bad day the best you could do was over 90 hours.
Maybe somebody at Google could run the lisp function that computes that on current data and post the answer.
Maybe somebody at Google could run the lisp function that computes that on current data and post the answer.
The United Island Hopper famously has 6 stops throughout the Pacific between Honolulu and Guam visiting 7 different islands.
(http://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-united-island-hopper-sev...)
HNL > MA > KWA > KSA > PNI > TKK > GUM
(http://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-united-island-hopper-sev...)
HNL > MA > KWA > KSA > PNI > TKK > GUM
Typically a single flight number can only accommodate 4 legs/segment one way as this is a limitation in most GDS systems. Of course a ticket buyer can combine flights to create more legs if necessary but airlines don't schedule more than 4. 4 leg flights are not common however. A leg/segment is defined as a takeoff and landing. So a 4 leg flight would be A to B to C to D one way.
That seems like a 3 leg? "A to B" is a one leg right?
The longest flight I did was when I returned from a visit to New Zealand in 2004:
Invercargill -> Christchurch -> Auckland -> Los Angeles -> London LHR -> Edinburgh
The journey took around 36 hours and was largely uneventful. What I did learn was to check your baggage weight allowances; I ended up wearing quite a few of my clothes on the Invercargill to Christchurch leg :)
Invercargill -> Christchurch -> Auckland -> Los Angeles -> London LHR -> Edinburgh
The journey took around 36 hours and was largely uneventful. What I did learn was to check your baggage weight allowances; I ended up wearing quite a few of my clothes on the Invercargill to Christchurch leg :)
If it was Air New Zealand, they will allow the weight allowance for the long-haul part for your entire journey if booked as a single journey.
The Invercargill flight wasn't on my original itinerary as I thought I'd be driving up to Christchurch to catch first leg. So when I rolled up at the Invercargill check in I got a surprise:)
You can compare these with some early 20th century routes from London to Australia, which had dozens of stops:
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/iaw35aus/ia... https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--M9zDODc...
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/iaw35aus/ia... https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--M9zDODc...
These answers are ridiculously low.
In Northern Canada, flights are chained. This means that to go from Old Crow (YOC) to Whitehorse (YXY), you need to do:
1. Old Crow (YOC) -> Inuvik
2. Inuvik -> Dawson City
3. Dawson City -> Whitehorse
Even getting to NY from there adds another two stops:
4. Whitehorse -> Vancouver
5. Vancouver -> Newark
Supposing you wanted to go to the Galapagos, the shortest trip from Yellowknife happens to go through Newark/New York City (yes, you'd need to change airports):
6. New York City -> Guayaquil
7. Guayaquil -> San Cristóbal Island
But you could probably find better results if you looked to leave the western hemisphere and go somewhere like VOG (7 segments total), UTN (8 segments total), or TMR (8 segments total).
In Northern Canada, flights are chained. This means that to go from Old Crow (YOC) to Whitehorse (YXY), you need to do:
1. Old Crow (YOC) -> Inuvik
2. Inuvik -> Dawson City
3. Dawson City -> Whitehorse
Even getting to NY from there adds another two stops:
4. Whitehorse -> Vancouver
5. Vancouver -> Newark
Supposing you wanted to go to the Galapagos, the shortest trip from Yellowknife happens to go through Newark/New York City (yes, you'd need to change airports):
6. New York City -> Guayaquil
7. Guayaquil -> San Cristóbal Island
But you could probably find better results if you looked to leave the western hemisphere and go somewhere like VOG (7 segments total), UTN (8 segments total), or TMR (8 segments total).
Don't have to be particularly obscure cities to get a lot of segments. I once had to take a last minute flight from Cape Town to Seattle (before the direct Jo-burg to Atlanta route existed).
Cape Town > Johannesburg > Amsterdam > Atlanta > Seattle.
4 segments... and about 40 hours... gooooooood times :)
Cape Town > Johannesburg > Amsterdam > Atlanta > Seattle.
4 segments... and about 40 hours... gooooooood times :)
BA flies Cape Town -> Heathrow. From there we went on direct to SFO but I'd be surprised if you can't get to SEA from there.
My longest travel was MIA-DOH-BKK-Chang Mai 33 hours of travel due to layovers etc. MIA-DOH was fairly pleasant on the qatar a380.
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Brain Teaser, try to fly to FYN (CN) and back.
But regarding your question. I once flew NYC<>Asunción. I don't remember the stops anymore but it was at least three, including El Salvador and Lima.
But regarding your question. I once flew NYC<>Asunción. I don't remember the stops anymore but it was at least three, including El Salvador and Lima.
What's special about FYN? I search for round-trip flights from IAD and had no trouble. The standard route seems to be IAD-PEK-URC-FYN.
I think anytime I have to flight with multiple flights over 4 hours is brutal. I've done ATL-DXB direct flights with a flight on both sides of that, and I've done ORD-DXB with a stop at LHR or FRA with an additional flight on both sides. I'd much rather have one 15 hour flight than two eight hours. On the 15 hour you can sleep some, maybe get a little ahead of jetlag if your timing lines up well. On the eight hour, you just get abbreviated naps, no sleep cycle, and you might think, oh, but you can get out and stretch your legs, usually what ends up happening is you get stuck going through customs somewhere and stand in line forever, then cram yourself into another plane. Give me one flight.