I always did trips like that. In my blog here I wrote my report of spring break last year(MDT-ATL-MXP-ZRH-MUC-TXL-JFK-ATL-DEN-ATL-SXM-ATL-PHL). I just wrote about my Round the World trip MDT-CVG-LAX-SYD-DXB-ATL-MDT. I never wrote about this but last October I flew MDT-ATL-JFK-CAI-JFK-ATL-GPT-ATL-UIO-ATL-GPT-ATL-MDT. Last August I did MDT-DTW-MSP-FAI-SLC-WYS-SLC-JFK-PHL-MDT. Also last August I flew around like nuts to surprise my aunt. I was going along with her to DAY to visit my cousin, but I snuck around the day before and went MDT-ATL-FLL, picked up my other cousin, flew FLL-CVG with him, then CVG-MDT. The next morning flew with my aunt MDT-DTW-CVG then CVG-MDT, worked 2 days then MDT-DTW-DAY spent a day then CVG-MDT.I met Jumper in SEA in May. I ZEDed on Cape Air, then the rest DL LNS-BWI-ATL-EZE-ATL-SEA-SLC-ATL-MDT. Literally got the last seat on ATL-SEA and SLC-ATL, middle seats too . Then in June I flew MDT-ATL-PHX-SLC-CDG-PIT-ATL-DUB-ATL-MDT.

I thought I was smart and decided to try the very first SYD-LAX because I figured no DL people would be in SYD yet. I flew MDT-ATL-ICN and was going to take KE ICN-SYD. I checked in and cleared, then went to the spot with free internet in ICN. Checked Travelnet and there were still 15 or so seats open, but in the 16 hours since I left ATL, I went from 5th on the list to 25th. So I figured I'd spend a day in Seoull, checked the next day ICN-ATL, WAY oversold. I logged out of that computer and sprinted back to the gate just in time and listed and cleared for ICN-ATL. I got back to ATL to see the last flight to MDT went sour, had to buy a ticket on Airtran to get home. I spent about 30 hours on planes and 3 hours on the ground in ICN.

Of course instead of driving to PHL or JFK for a flight to Europe, I'll go MDT-CVG-PHL-JFK. Actually my trip to VCE was an adventure too. Flew MDT-CVG-PHL-JFK got on the JFK-VCE, about 4 hours into the flight, just as we were crossing over St. Johns, we had some sort of electrical issue and all the lights started flickering and all the oxygen masks deployed. We turned around for JFK, but with very little 767-400 ops in JFK, the only spare a/c was in ATL. So we overflew JFK and got to ATL about 2AM, parked next to the spare which was all ready to go, and left ATL about 3AM. Got into VCE about 7PM. Then 9E broke the plane DTW-MDT on the way back, so spent a night in DTW. Ended up MDT-CVG-PHL-JFK(8 hour flight)-ATL-VCE-JFK-DTW-MDT.

We had one other guy in MDT for a few months that would fly around nuts like me, he went on my RTW trip.

It was fun to nonrev. I guess I'll mention now that I am no longer employed by Delta or any of its subsidiaries. I'll probably put up a blog with my year in review.