rollingstar101 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 29 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1352 times:
I am looking to travel from ORD-PDX and take the longest route possible on United and still get there on the same day. I really want to do a PS flight but I know united doesn’t fly direct to JFK (Stuipd) , and I am willing to fly possibly Jet Blue to get there. Any other ideas?
PHLstudent From United States of America, joined May 2006, 498 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1305 times:
I don't know how expensive it would be, but you could do ORD-IAD-JFK-SFO/LAX-PDX
Otherwise for the longest route, I would look at ORD-IAD to SEA/LAX/SFO then to PDX
kgaiflyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 3648 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1237 times:
I assume "cost is no object" doesn't enter the equation.
I do these trips all the time, and I know you have to stay flexible to keep the cost down. For instance -- you may have to depart ORD before 6am and not arrive back until 6am the next day -- but that's technically still a one day trip.
Along those lines, P.S. service is rather expensive, and you may want to do that as part of a future trip.
Anyway, I found this trip on Orbitz -- *starting* Tuesday March 16th and *concluding* Wednesday March 17th -- which sounds reasonable in price given the number of segment and the number of Milage Plus miles it will pile up. Note that you hit all your points but not necessarily in the order you might have wanted.
By the way, you *did* want to arrive back at ORD . . . right?
Just remember your toothbrush; a change of undies, and a bottle of "tears" type eyedrops.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
$410 + $57 taxes & fees = $467 USD per person
Flight 1
Tue, Mar 16 United Airlines 635
Depart: 8:00am
Arrive: 10:37am Chicago, IL (ORD)
Seattle, WA (SEA)
1 stop Economy 4hr 37min Airbus A320 View seats
Change planes. Time between flights: 0hr 33min
United Airlines 6814
operated by UNITED EXPRESS/SKYWEST AIRLINES
Depart: 11:10am
Arrive: 11:58am Seattle, WA (SEA)
Portland, OR (PDX)
Flight 2
Tue, Mar 16 United Airlines 6074
operated by UNITED EXPRESS/SKYWEST AIRLINES
Depart: 4:34pm
Arrive: 6:22pm Portland, OR (PDX)
San Francisco, CA (SFO)
1 stop Economy 1hr 48min Canadair View seats
Change planes. Time between flights: 1hr 8min
United Airlines 931
Depart: 7:30pm
Arrive: 8:55pm San Francisco, CA (SFO)
Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Economy 1hr 25min Airbus A320 View seats
Total duration: 4hr 21min
Flight 3
Tue, Mar 16 United Airlines 126
Depart: 11:25pm
Arrive: 5:11am Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Chicago, IL (ORD)
1 stop Economy 3hr 46min Boeing 767 View seats
Change planes. Time between flights: 0hr 49min
United Airlines 922
Depart: 6:00am
Arrive: 8:49am Chicago, IL (ORD)
Washington, DC (IAD)
Economy 1hr 49min Airbus A320 View seats
Total duration: 6hr 24min
Flight 4
Wed, Mar 17 United Airlines 7027
operated by UNITED EXPRESS/ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST AIRLINES
Depart: 12:21pm
Arrive: 1:43pm Washington, DC (IAD)
New York, NY (LGA)
Non-stop Economy 1hr 22min Canadair View seats
Flight 5
Wed, Mar 17 United Airlines 685
Depart: 2:53pm
Arrive: 4:31pm New York, NY (LGA)
Chicago, IL (ORD)
Non-stop Economy 2hr 38min Airbus A320 View seats
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8771 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1227 times:
These are the valid routing rules for CHI-PDX on UA below (it's long, so I'll post my commentary first).
Anyway, WAS (IAD) or NYC (JFK) are not valid - you'd have to book two tickets - a one-way CHI-NYC, then a separate NYC-PDX to get the p.s. flight.
Sponsor Message: 
From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 29 posts, 
, and I am willing to fly possibly Jet Blue to get there. Any other ideas?
Printer friendly format 
