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You can't leave us hanging. What was the trip? How much? How long in each location?
Munich to Munich was €250! Because of status we got upgraded on all the domestic flights in the US and we had lounge access so that helped.
Got to Munich 4pm Friday, nice evening, airport Hotel that night. 7am departure, got to Boston at midnight. 6am departure (I did not want to leave my bed that morning) then got into Montreal around 11am. Flight back to Amsterdam was 9pm. Got shed loads of miles, status level increased and had a cracking Bank Holiday weekend
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Munich to Munich was €250! Because of status we got upgraded on all the domestic flights in the US and we had lounge access so that helped.
Got to Munich 4pm Friday, nice evening, airport Hotel that night. 7am departure, got to Boston at midnight. 6am departure (I did not want to leave my bed that morning) then got into Montreal around 11am. Flight back to Amsterdam was 9pm. Got shed loads of miles, status level increased and had a cracking Bank Holiday weekend
Wait just so I’m clear as I might have misread your post. You did a round trip of all those stops, Munich to Munich, for flight status??0 -
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LimeFruitGum wrote: »That’s utterly demented, but I love it!
You must have been wrecked?
I think I got home about 4pm, grabbed a takeaway and slept until the alarm went off for work the next day. Have only done it the one time. There are crazy people who do this all the time over on flyertalk.com!0 -
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I think I got home about 4pm, grabbed a takeaway and slept until the alarm went off for work the next day. Have only done it the one time. There are crazy people who do this all the time over on flyertalk.com!
Fair play! I would be well up for doing something similar for the lols & points. 0 -
Now that wouldn't be fairCan’t wait til the pilots join the thread:)
Ireland-
[1]Dublin
[2]Weston
[3]Trim
[4]Waterford
[5]Cork
[6]Kerry
[7]Coonagh
[8]Shannon
[9]Trim
[10]Abbeyshrule
[11]Galway
[12]InisMore
[13]Aughish Power Station
[14]Punchestown
[15]Clonbullogue
[16]Tramore
[17]Slane
[18]Sligo
[19]Letterkenny
[20]Derry
[21]Billy Pattersons field - Donegal
[22]Belfast
Outside Ireland, about 110 professionally and 40 personally.0 -
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Quite a lot of them were off the beaten track, but they were all Airports, and these are the one's that I remember. There were a few other's too, but strictly speaking, would not qualify for the description " Airport"...grassy field's and dessert more like it, off the beaten track and tourist trail's
Ireland:
Dublin,
Shannon,
Cork,
England:-
London Heathrow,
Gatwick,
Kent International.
France:-
Charles de Gaulle,
Spain:-
Alicante,
Switzerland:-
Zurich,
Geneva,
Germany:-
Munich,
Frankfurt.
Croatia:-
Zagreb,
Serbia:-
Belgrade,
Montenegro:-
Podgorica,
Liberia:-
Monrovia,
Voinjama
Afghanistan:-
Kabul
Kandahar,
Faisabad.
Rostaq,
Mazar E Sharif,
Kunduz,
Chagcharan,
Bamian,
Lashkar Gar,
Herat,
Sudan:-
Khartoum,
Nyala,
Kutum,
Al-Fasheer,
Iran:-
Teheran,
Mashaad,
Russia:-
Sheremetevo Moscow
Vnukovo,
Domodedovo,
Zhukovsky,
Nalchick,
Libya:-
Tripoli,
Benghazi,
Turkey:-
Istanbul,
Lebanon:-
Beirut,
Pakistan:-
Islamabad,
Peshawar,
Quetta,
Karachi,
Syria:-
Damascus,
Tartous,
Tajikistan:-
Dushanbe,
Middle East:-
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Spot the humanitarian worker
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Manic Moran wrote: »I, too, am intruigued by jmreire.
Caranica did a Caribbian cruise from Puerto Rico to St Thomas? It's interesting to see how many of us have been to the same 'smaller' airports.
No I didn't!
St. Thomas and Puerto Rico were two different years, although we did fly from Atlanta to San Juan to change on to the tiny plane to St. Thomas. We used to visit friends in the US and add on a random destination every time. Hence my extensive US list
PS thanks for reminding me of Long Beach, that's #79 for me!0 -
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When you read down through your own list and realise how many flights you have taken and how much of your life you have wasted waiting in Boring airports
MrsTeal did her degree in Dundee. I was a sales manager in Dublin back then so thankfully was able to pick my own hours/days and because of this I travelled to Dundee every two weeks, for nearly 4 years. Now I must say, I had the timing down to a fine art so the waiting around was never too bad. The worst bit was landing in Edinburgh and catching a bus into the middle of a city that is one of my favourites to then catch a bus/train up to Dundee, which is. . .well. . . Dundee :eek:
Anyway, I'm not going to create a long list as most of the airports I've been to have been mentioned (and it turns out I'm not that well travelled compared to most) so I'll add a little list of what may be seen as "uncommon" ones:
Aberdeen
Cleveland
White Plains
Nantes
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Ireland
Dublin
UK
Bournemouth
Southampton
East Midlands
Birmingham
Exeter
Gatwick
Heathrow
Stansted
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Channel Islands
Guernsey
Jersey
Alderney
Europe
Faro
Prague
Malaga
Palma
Lanzarote
Las Palmas/Gran Canaria
Tenerife South and Tenerife North
Fuerteventura
Rest of the world
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Perth
Melbourne
Sydney
Gold coast
Adelaide
Cairns
Darwin
Nadi (Fiji)
Auckland
Christchurch
Hong Kong
Guangzhou
Beijing
Kuala Lumpur
Bangkok Suaranvhami
Bangkok Don Mueang
Udon Thani
Surat Thani
KohSamui
Phuket
Krabi
Chiang Mai
Vientiane
Hanoi
Da Nang
Ho Chi Minh
Bali Denpasar
Manilla
Kalibo
Colombo
Kochi
Delhi
Male
55 airports I think, I'll hopefully tick a few new ones off next year in Europe, that just made me depressed typing that out 0 -
Manic Moran wrote: »I, too, am intruigued by jmreire.
Caranica did a Caribbian cruise from Puerto Rico to St Thomas? It's interesting to see how many of us have been to the same 'smaller' airports.
Assuming we count stop-offs/transfers. 125 airports follow.
Ireland:
Dublin
Shannon
UK:
Heathrow
Gatwick
Glasgow
Europe
Amsterdam
Paris CDG
Brussels
Thessaloniki
Athens / Eleftherios Venizelos
Athens / Ellinikon (Now thankfully closed)
Mykonos
Vienna
Larnaca
Minsk
Zagreb
Zurich
Milan
Frankfurt
Munich
Hamburg
Koln/Bonn
Prague
Stockholm
St Petersburg
Moscow/Domodyedovo
Leipzig
Asia:
Hong Kong
Seoul/Kim'po (Now closed)
Toyko/Narita
Manas
Kandahar (Military)
Bagram (Military)
Kuwait City
Balad (Military)
Pacific:
Melbourne
Canberra
Sydney
Cairns
Auckland
Wellington
Tahiti/Papeete
Bora Bora
Africa:
None.
South America:
Lima
Cusco
North America:
Toronto/Pearson
Montreal
Ottawa
Edmonton
Puerto Vallarta
Belize
Caye Caulker (7 minute flight from Belize)
USA:
San Francisco, CA
LAX, CA (Avoid, if you can)
San Diego, CA
Oakland, CA
Ontario, CA
Long Beach, CA
John Wayne/Orange County, CA
Portland, OR
Seattle/Tacoma, WA
McChord (Military), WA
Albuquerque, NM
Phoenix, AZ
San Jose, CA
Yakima, WA
Quad cities/Moline. IL
Chicago O'Hare, IL(Avoid this one as well)
JFK, NY (Also worth avoiding)
LaGuardia, NY (Stay clear)
Newark, NY (You know, just don't visit New York city, save yourself the airport hassle)
Las Vegas, NV
Reno, NV
Rapid City, SD
Cedar Rapids, IA
Bicycle Lake, CA (Military)
Dover, DE (Military)
Travis, CA (Military)
Houston, TX
College Station, TX
San Antonio, TX
Austin, TX
Denver, CO
Colorado Springs, CO (A 12 minute flight from Denver)
Boston, MA
Washington / Dulles, VA
Washington / Reagan, VA
Orlando, FL
San Juan, PR
Honolulu, HI
Manchester NH
Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia, PA
Kansas City, MO
Louisville, KY
DFW, TX
New Orleans, LA
Atlanta. GA
Savannah, GA
Mobile, AL
Cleveland, OH
Bangor, ME
Buffalo, NY
BWI, MD
Indianapolis, IN
Nashville, TN
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Charleston, SC
Salt Lake City, UT
Great Falls, MT
Fairbanks, AK
Victorville, CA (Military)
Corpus Christi, TX
Pensacola, FL
Baton Rouge, LA
Airports/airfields I have flown into (as a pilot)
Elizabethtown, KY
Bowling Green, KY
Owensboro, KY
Livermore, CA
Lake Tahoe, CA
Yerington, NV
Carson City, NV
San Rafael, CA
Stockton, CA
Sacramento/Mather, CA
That's certainly the majority of them. Probably missed a couple of the less memorable ones.
I see that we shared a few Airport's Manic ( Kandahar is a sight to behold, if you want to see the US Airforce in all it's splendor ), were you military or Humanitarian, like me? ( or is it a case of after telling me, you would have to kill me??? ) as another poster has said earlier on? 0 -
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I think I've flown from/to 67 airports. My favourite airports are Vancouver and Sea-Tac. They were pleasant places as far as airports go. Athens, Bratislava and Krakow airports were surprisingly nice as well.
The worst airports I've passed through are Warsaw Modlin (it's a shed), Terminal 2 in Lisbon (just a bigger shed) and Manchester airports (chaotic when I was there).
The strangest experience I've had was at Ben Gurion. Our flight was delayed twice in the terminal. They finally boarded the flight (we were bused out to the plane) late in the evening and we were taxiiing down the runway. We stopped, waited for final clearance for take off for ages and then the Captain made an announcement over the PA system that the tower was closed and that we would have to go back to the terminal and disembark. We had to wait overnight in the airport until the following morning for the flight to leave. I've often wondered why our flight was rescheduled to take off when the tower was closed
Will be adding Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport and Kyiv-Boryspil Airport before the end of the year.
I would love to try Donegal Airport.
Ireland:
Shannon Airport
Dublin Airport
Cork Airport
Kerry Airport
Australia:
Sydney Airport
Perth Airport
Belgium:
Brussels Airport
Charleroi Airport
Bulgaria:
Sofia Airport
Canada:
Vancouver Airport
Calgary Airport
Pearson Airport - Toronto
Croatia:
Dubrovnik Airport
Cyprus:
Larnaca Airport
Paphos Airport
Czech Republic:
Václav Havel Airport - Prague
Denmark:
Kastrup Airport - Copenhagen
Estonia:
Lennart Meri Airport - Tallinn
France:
Charles De Gaulle - Paris
Lyon - Saint Exupéry Airport
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport
Germany:
Schönefeld Airport - Berlin
Munich Airport
Hamburg Airport
Greece:
Athens International Airport (Eleftherios Venizelos)
Santorini Airport
Holland:
Schiphol Airport - Amsterdam
Hungary:
Ferenc Liszt Airport - Budapest
Iceland:
Keflavík Airport
Israel:
Ben Gurion Airport
Italy:
Leonardo da Vinci Airport - Rome
Galileo Galilei Airport - Pisa
Guglielmo Marconi Airport - Bologna
Malpensa Airport - Milan
Latvia:
Riga Airport
Lithuania:
Vilnius Airport
Malta:
Malta Airport
Norway:
Moss Airport - Rygge
Poland:
Modlin Airport - Warsaw
John Paul II Airport - Krakow
Portugal:
Humberto Delgado Airport - Lisbon
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport - Porto
Romania:
Henri Coandă Airport - Bucharest
Singapore:
Changi Airport
Slovakia:
Bratislava Airport
Slovenia:
Jože Pučnik Airport - Ljubljana
Spain:
Barajas Airport - Madrid
El Prat Airport - Barcelona
Almería Airport
Sweden:
Skavsta Airport
Switzerland:
Zurich Airport
Thailand:
Don Mueang Airport
United Kingdom:
Heathrow Airport
Stanstead Airport
Gatwick Airport
Manchester Airport
Edinburgh Airport
Cardiff Airport
USA:
Ted Stevens Airport - Anchorage
George Bush Airport - Houston
Seattle-Tacoma Airport - Seattle
McCarran Airport - Las Vegas
O'Hare Airport - Chicago
Logan Airport - Boston
John F. Kennedy Airport - New York
Newark Liberty Airport - New Jersey
San Francisco International Airport
Didn't fly to or from there but I have used the bathroom at Burlington Airport in Vermont :pac:0 -
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I see that we shared a few Airport's Manic ( Kandahar is a sight to behold, if you want to see the US Airforce in all it's splendor ), were you military or Humanitarian, like me? ( or is it a case of after telling me, you would have to kill me??? ) as another poster has said earlier on?
Oh, I viewed Kandahar as a Canadian facility. Complete with hockey rink and Tim Horton's.
This was the security checkpoint back in late 2009 or so.
Note that I am equipped with everything the Army felt I needed to enjoy my stay in Afghanistan. Note also that there is a display of prohibited items in the back on the wall, mainly knives. I had to put my knife in checked baggage, whilst the rifle, sidearm, and some 400 rounds of ammunition went through the x-ray machine.
I asked the RAF MP if he realised how stupid this was. He said yes, but he didn't make the rules.0 -
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Manic Moran wrote: »Oh, I viewed Kandahar as a Canadian facility. Complete with hockey rink and Tim Horton's.
This was the security checkpoint back in late 2009 or so.
Note that I am equipped with everything the Army felt I needed to enjoy my stay in Afghanistan. Note also that there is a display of prohibited items in the back on the wall, mainly knives. I had to put my knife in checked baggage, whilst the rifle, sidearm, and some 400 rounds of ammunition went through the x-ray machine.
I asked the RAF MP if he realised how stupid this was. He said yes, but he didn't make the rules.
I was there in 2001-2002 ( I can really pick'em !! ) and back again in 2009-10. We would have been routed through the "Civilian" part out to the "Visitors" area, well away from the main building's.Custom and Passport control's were pretty much perfunctionary....they were very used to us. When leaving the Country, did you fly KAD-KAB-DUBOI, and then onward's? The Tim Horton's I well remember...enjoyed their stuff in other Country's,,,but the Hockey...you mean Ice-Hockey...( what other kind, I can hear you say ) in the heat of KAD???? WOW. Plus that was some amount of kit to be carrying in the Afghan heat.....:) I just found some pics from that time too.0 -
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