Does anyone else go flying crazy like this?

Happy Holidays everybody.

Hope everything went safe & well for you all.
I was fortunate to be off for the good part of the week with my bidded schedule, and as always I went flying.
Why not? Loads are light if you find the right flights and don't mind going here and there so that said I'm wondering
if anyone else gets around on whirlwinds like this and if so what city are you based in and days off!! Lol. Does anyone
have some crazy trips like this to tell of?
I started out wednesday night from CVG and just kept on going, as you'll read below...

73 Hours, 22,087 Miles, $17,067.40(source-Delta.com). CVG-LAS-CVG-FLL-ATL-ZRH-ATL-SEA-MSP-MSN-MSP-DTW-CVG. Boeing 737-800, MD90, Boeing 757-200, Boeing 767-300, Boeing 757-300, DC9-30, DC9-50, ERJ145. J/F all segments except DTW-CVG (E145) Zurich/US taxes paid US$46.55

Tchau

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Pretty neat I'd say. But now, with all the problems that happened in DTW....we may back off from international flites for a while?

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Happy Holidays everybody.

Hope everything went safe & well for you all.
I was fortunate to be off for the good part of the week with my bidded schedule, and as always I went flying.
Why not? Loads are light if you find the right flights and don&#39;t mind going here and there so that said I&#39;m wondering
if anyone else gets around on whirlwinds like this and if so what city are you based in and days off!! Lol. Does anyone
have some crazy trips like this to tell of?
I started out wednesday night from CVG and just kept on going, as you&#39;ll read below...

73 Hours, 22,087 Miles, $17,067.40(source-Delta.com). CVG-LAS-CVG-FLL-ATL-ZRH-ATL-SEA-MSP-MSN-MSP-DTW-CVG. Boeing 737-800, MD90, Boeing 757-200, Boeing 767-300, Boeing 757-300, DC9-30, DC9-50, ERJ145. J/F all segments except DTW-CVG (E145) Zurich/US taxes paid US$46.55

Tchau

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nope--but then again, you&#39;re a flyin&#39; fool!!
sounds like it was fun--did you go into Zurich? Cleanest city on earth--just about the most $$$ too.

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73 Hours, 22,087 Miles, $17,067.40(source-Delta.com). CVG-LAS-CVG-FLL-ATL-ZRH-ATL-SEA-MSP-MSN-MSP-DTW-CVG. Boeing 737-800, MD90, Boeing 757-200, Boeing 767-300, Boeing 757-300, DC9-30, DC9-50, ERJ145. J/F all segments except DTW-CVG (E145) Zurich/US taxes paid US$46.55
Tchau
DA-[/b]

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No, can&#39;t say I have...and all in 73 hours http://bestsmileys.com/fainting/1.gif http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...DIR#>/wink.gif

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 http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...IR#>/smile.gif. 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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;ll mention now that I am no longer employed by Delta or any of its subsidiaries. I&#39;ll probably put up a blog with my year in review.

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It was fun to nonrev. I guess I&#39;ll mention now that I am no longer employed by Delta or any of its subsidiaries. I&#39;ll probably put up a blog with my year in review.[/b]

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Aww, sorry to hear that. Your blog entries always made me wonder how you don&#39;t collapse in the middle of Kuwait on a daytrip from lack of sleep or something (if you try to tell me you sleep on the plane, I&#39;m not gonna believe it http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...R#>/tongue.gif )

Then again, I haven&#39;t nonrevved since the end of Summer 2008, but I&#39;m at a perpetual light at the end of the tunnel for finding a new job in EAU

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Of course instead of driving to PHL or JFK for a flight to Europe, I&#39;ll go MDT-CVG-PHL-JFK. A[/b]

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I like your style! Wish I could do the whole round the world thing... but even on CX we have to pay so it costs too much. Did you travel in comfort most of the way?

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I met Jumper in SEA in May.[/b]

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Speaking of which I meant to ask... has there ever been a nonrev.net get together / fly-in?

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Your blog entries always made me wonder how you don&#39;t collapse in the middle of Kuwait on a daytrip from lack of sleep or something (if you try to tell me you sleep on the plane, I&#39;m not gonna believe it http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...R#>/tongue.gif )[/b]

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Actually I can sleep pretty well on a plane. Oddly I cannot sleep on a redeye, but I pass out on daytime flights. I just about collapsed in Dubai. I was so tired I could barely function. I sat down in a chair in the Mall of the Emirates and fell asleep for about an hour. I still travel plenty, and sometimes I get run ragged

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Did you travel in comfort most of the way?


Speaking of which I meant to ask... has there ever been a nonrev.net get together / fly-in?[/b]

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I have to admit to being very fortunate with that. I&#39;ve been on plenty of transoceanic flights, and I was only ever in Coach once. That one time was on an Emirates A380 SYD-DXB for 15 hours in a middle seat. Usually, instead of picking a place I want to go and trying to force in the flights, I&#39;ll find flights wide open in Business and go wherever they take me.

I&#39;ve never heard of any get together, but it was great meeting Jumper and it would be nice to meet everyone here at some point.

and BTW, my blog post is up

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I&#39;ve never heard of any get together, but it was great meeting Jumper and it would be nice to meet everyone here at some point.[/b]

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We should arrange this. I&#39;d be up for it...

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Does anyone
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Lots!

Recently, just to get from IND to MCI, I did IND-DTW-CVG-MCI.
I once flew LAS-EWR-MIA-CPT-MIA-IAH-LAS and was in CPT for about 30 hours.
I flew LAS-PHX-CMH-PHL-BOS-ZRH-GVA-ORY just to get a ride on the Iran Air 747SP.
One of my favorites was LAS-SBA-LAX-SNA-LAX-IPL-LAX-SAN-LAX-LAS all on Skywest Metroliners. Left at 7am and got back home around 10pm. Could have done more legs but we spent a few hours in SNA visiting a friend.

I am married with a child so these trips do not happen for me anymore but it is awesome to read about all of yours!

ColoAvs19--Sorry to hear you are gone...
Will miss your travel stories
How do you get the crew rate at the Sonesta in SXM? I want to go back in a few weeks.

I can also sleep like a baby on planes, even in Y.

To stay awake, you have to keep moving. I have done dozens of daytrips to Europe and then spend the whole day seeing the city but as soon as I stop, It&#39;s lights out...

Oh and to answer your other question...I am in IND and have Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays off.

I am wanting to fly JFK to CDG on the AF A-380 in a few weeks.

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Speaking of which I meant to ask... has there ever been a nonrev.net get together / fly-in?[/b]

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I&#39;ve never heard of any get together, but it was great meeting Jumper and it would be nice to meet everyone here at some point.[/b]

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There was one fly-in meeting. It was a Forum correspondents gathering in April 2000 in ATL. Nonrev Correspondent&#39;s gathering 4/29/00
BTW, I didn&#39;t attend the gathering in 2000, I was just a "puddle jumper". http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...DIR#>/wink.gif http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...#>/biggrin.gif

When I went to SXM, I just went to the Sonesta with no reservation. I walked up to the front desk, asked if they had a room for 1 night, and showed my Comair ID and asked for the crew rate. They were happy to help me.

Of course that was the Comair ID. I had such a hard time with the Regional Elite Airline Services ID, nobody wanted to accept it for anything.

You&#39;re 9E right? Does your ID say Delta on it anywhere? They didn&#39;t know what Comair was, but they understood Delta Connection.

Yes, it says DL and NW on it.
Thanks for the info!

I&#39;d love to do a meeting of some kind, but if I&#39;m going to go it&#39;d have to be in MSP (maaaaybe ORD/MDW or one of the airports in WI) or wait until March when I have a chance at being back in the business. Weekends preferred.

MSP???? it cold up there until mosquito season!!
eh, I could do it IF I had to...
my mom&#39;s family is from the Green Giant Valley

Hey, at least Spring/Fall is tolerable, along with winter if you&#39;re indoors http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...R#>/tongue.gif

Oh, and one other bonus of MSP: I have a pretty comfortable car if anyone needs a ride from the airport, assuming things end up in the city area, and know the nooks and crannies around the southern suburbs (which is the side of town where the airport happens to be)

I get the urge every now and then ... In April, I went to Hawaii to buy coffee. CO cancelled a couple flights back to the mainland and all flights became oversold for the next 3 days... So I went to NRT (always travel with your passport) stayed the night in the crew hotel and flew nonstop back to MSP the next day all in biz class. I would do it more often if I had someone to go with... I work 12 hour shifts so only three days a week and my better half (the airline employee) is comuting mon-fri to ATL. Kudos to CVG2LGA this is a tough time of year to travel.... I looked yesterday 12/29 and everything was oversold by double digits!

welcome and sage advice is always appreciated
spunk is good too!

PS--you can order coffee at javacity.com using DELTAEMP for discount--you don&#39;t have to go to Hawaii to buy it, but Guatemala has some really good stuff, too (even tho I prefer Sumatra or Ethiopian..haha!)

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welcome and sage advice is always appreciated
spunk is good too!

PS--you can order coffee at javacity.com using DELTAEMP for discount--you don&#39;t have to go to Hawaii to buy it, but Guatemala has some really good stuff, too (even tho I prefer Sumatra or Ethiopian..haha!)[/b]

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LOL yea but thats half the fun =) Guatemala is on my list ... Hmm I think I see a coffee run in my future

My next trip is Vietnam in Feb ..before DL stops flying there

I did a short GUA trip w/sister last year. Lake Atitlan is amazing. She tried to tandem paraglide over the lake but winds kept kicking up and "pilot" was worried. It&#39;s a pretty neat place. Tell more about Vietnam--there is some good info on VN trains at seat61.com (if you&#39;ve never used it before--it&#39;s awesome!)

Happy (brrr) New Year everyone. I&#39;m up in MSP right now, having a great time with 9E captain son & wife, & grandson. 8 below predicted tomorrow. Had a full-moon walk with the family in Ft. Snelling State Park yesterday (NY eve), all delightful.
Flying here, wifie got a seat up front, and me 5E bulkhead, greate comfort!
Anyway, will probably be in MSP the week before Easter, if this get-together is to happen.
Best to all!

It&#39;s 6 below zero right now. Anyone wanna meet on a beach in Thailand? http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...DIR#>/wink.gif

I&#39;d love to go to Thailand at some point, but the best place for this group to meet up would have to be Maho Beach. We could dry up the Sunset Beach Bar and maybe get a nonrev.net photo with a Corsair 744 hanging 30 feet over our heads.

Or maybe even a KLM MD11. Always loved tri-jets, now I get to play with them all the time!

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I&#39;d love to go to Thailand at some point, but the best place for this group to meet up would have to be Maho Beach. We could dry up the Sunset Beach Bar and maybe get a nonrev.net photo with a Corsair 744 hanging 30 feet over our heads.

Or maybe even a KLM MD11. Always loved tri-jets, now I get to play with them all the time![/b]

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Totally agree. I&#39;ve needed an excuse to go there for years, and don&#39;t think i&#39;ll make it if I rely on my own volition

I&#39;ve done trips like SAN-SFO-SYD-CNS/BNE and SAN-SFO-PVG/PEK and back in 3 days a bunch of times.

Craziest trips have been SAN-LAX-NRT-SIN-PEN or SAN-SFO-HKG-SGN. These would have been absolutely brutal if we weren&#39;t in first class. http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...R#>/tongue.gif

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I am wanting to fly JFK to CDG on the AF A-380 in a few weeks.[/b]

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Just did this last week!
Flew:
IND-JFK Comair CRJ
JFK-CDG Air France 388
CDG-PRG Czech 320
PRG-JFK Delta 763
LGA-IND 9E CRJ

Was in PRG for about 20 hours...nice city!

I juts got back from PRG!! 2 nights and it was COLLLLLLLLD
I love that place--can&#39;t wait to go back. Boss was capt of flights and we had some other crew fams--it was a good trip.
They ahd concerts for Haiti on the town square--rocking out with the Czechs!!! Hot wine and sausages/potatoes and YUMMMY stuff...
Still my fave Eu city!

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Just did this last week!
Flew:
IND-JFK Comair CRJ
JFK-CDG Air France 388
CDG-PRG Czech 320
PRG-JFK Delta 763
LGA-IND 9E CRJ

Was in PRG for about 20 hours...nice city![/b]

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How was the A380? I liked it on EK, but 15 hours in the middle seat of the last row was a little much.

The best part of being inside the A380 is that you can see that beautiful wing, and you can&#39;t see that hiddeous nose!!

A good friend of mine just worked one of our flights to Haiti. In 1 day he rode the airplane to 6 states and down to Haiti and back.

How was the A380? I liked it on EK, but 15 hours in the middle seat of the last row was a little much.










I liked it. Inside it just looks like any other jet though. Yes, it is an ugly nose!!

I was in row 19 on the lower deck, in the middle 4 seats but on the aisle.

The AF entertainment system was nice...

You guys make me so jealous... AC just put the service charges up for us Jazz folks... so now it&#39;s like $100 return every time I want to go anywhere close... Just goes up in price from there.

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Originally Posted by CVG2LGA

Does anyone
have some crazy trips like this to tell of?

DA-

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in over 10 years in the aviation industry I have done several crazy trips.

Just 2 weeks ago I did ZRH-BRU-ORD-YYC-YEG-YZF-YHY-YZF-YCO-YZF-YVR-DEN-RAP-MSP-IAD-LHR-ZRH in six days.

Highlights:

YEG-YZF First Air 737-200 combi
YHY-YZF Buffalo Airways DC3 as seen in the documentary Ice Pilots on History Channel
YZF-YCO ATR42-300 landing on a gravel runway in YCO

Since AF is planning to use the A380 on their PAR-LON route in June for the purpose of training flight attendants I will likely do a day trip ZRH-CDG-LHR-ZRH next month.

I truly love my flight benefits and make the most out of it at least once a month.

At this point I sometimes live on airplanes for 4 days at a time and rack up close to 30K miles on some trips. It can get really tiring at times, but it's fun.

i'm just happy to be able to get out of dc