Interesting aircraft journeys

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Interesting aircraft journeys… I have one:

I started off in a non descript town in Yorkshire and almost missed my flight due to traffic from Liverpool to Dublin then it was Dublin to Dubai after that Dubai to Hong Kong then Hong Kong to Hanoi (vietnam) da nong (Vietnam) to go chi Minh (vietnam) aka saigong. Saigong to Dubai! Dubai to Dublin; Dublin to Liverpool.
That’s includes flights in 1 b738 3 a320’s 3 b777-300 1 a380. On Ryanair air Longus Emirates Jetstar and Vietnam airlines. (A lot of planes)

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Not entirely by aircraft, but I present to you North Wales to Strasbourg.

Awaken at 2am, drive down the M6 to Birmingham, flyBe to Stuttgart (E195), S-Bahn to Stuttgart Hbf, TGV to Strasbourg. Took me about 12 hours each way :joy: (For anyone actually going to Strasbourg, you’re much quicker going via Amsterdam or Paris but that was prohibitively expensive when I went).

I’m going to Berlin next week. In typical me fashion, just getting on a plane from Liverpool or Manchester would have been far too easy. Instead, I’m catching a Loganair flight from Manchester to Glasgow, and a few days later Glasgow-Dusseldorf-Berlin with Eurowings, with my return flight routing Berlin-Dusseldorf-Manchester (also Eurowings). (This seems to work out due to lower fares from Glasgow on the days I need to travel, so much so that it is substantially cheaper to fly up on Loganair than it is to make two return trips to Manchester and pay the increased air fares).

I don’t make easy travel choices, but it does lead to more interesting journeys.

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Well not very exciting compared to guys but I’ll tell you.

London heathrow to Jamaica but the runway in Jamaica was very short and we where flying in a 747-400 not a great mix and you go really low above the sea so just a bit scary.

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I don’t know if it counts (this is the only one I could remember), but:

Woke up early at 4 to catch a 6 AM flight. My brother wanted the window seat so much, we arrived in the airport early. This particular flight is usually fully booked, since the route is quite popular. Got into the plane (I think it was an A320-neo), found that our row had no window seat.

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Can I do train journeys? Rush hour at NYC is brutal, it deserves a story here :wink:

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Always gotta check up on Seat Guru for stuff like that :wink:

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My brother’s a real aviation nut, so he usually knows which row is which, and from past flights I’ve never seen a row without a window before.

Here’s a pic I took from that flight.

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Same!
Flight from Geneva to Newcastle with TUIfly. My boarding card said seat 11a, and I was very happy to get a window seat - I had had one on the outbound flight.
Except 11a is not a window seat…it is a wall seat!

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Still better than the dreaded middle seat though :rage:

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Here’s the only sort of interesting one I’ve done:

Newcastle to Heathrow
Heathrow to Changi
Changi to an unknown Vietnamese Airport
Unknown Vietnamese Airport to Siam Reap.

We never got an explanation as to why we landed, we were really off course to land at that airport.

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Here’s my recent trip to America:

My itinerary was as follows - Melbourne - LA - New York - Aspen - Melbourne.

My actual routing however was:

Melbourne - LAX; LAX - NYC; NYC - Salt Lake City; Salt Lake City - Aspen; Aspen - Salt Lake City; Salt Lake City - LAX; LAX - Melbourne.

All my internal US flights were on Delta while I flew Virgin Australia on the MEL - LAX route.

Overall very happy, but I had a very long return layover in Salt Lake, so I took the tram down to to see the Mormon Temple and ended up seeing the eclipse from there :slight_smile: