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Which Airlines Fly Really 'Round The World'  
User currently offlineMucflyer From Germany, joined May 2004, 53 posts, RR: 0
Posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 5557 times:

which Airlines offers actually scheduled 'Worldrounder'. I mean real 'round the globe' flights with the same metal.
No connections with different aircrafts and no flights that no longer exists please...
Thanks for some infos.

Lufthansa Cargo i.e. offers 3-weekly westbound flights:
The first part for LH8400 FRA-ORD-HNL-AKL-MEL (same on all 3 flights).
The second part for LH8401 (still the same aircraft) depends.
One Routing is MEL-BKK-PEN-SHJ-FRA, the other one is MEL-KUL-BKK-SHJ-FRA and the last one is MEL-BKK-DEL-FRA.

regards


'riding the radials...'
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User currently offlineSwissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5167 posts, RR: 25
Reply 1, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5493 times:

Singapore Airlines with their SIN-FRA-JFK // EWR-SIN flights ...

If not mistaken, it is the only scheduled airline doing something like a "real round the world" flight ...


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User currently offlineFlySSC From Lebanon, joined Aug 2003, 5346 posts, RR: 52
Reply 2, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5469 times:

AF was used to fly "around the world" routes :

CDG-LAX-PPT-NRT-CDG

CDG-NRT-NOU-PPT-LAX-CDG.

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It was discointinued just a few years ago when PPT-NRT was taken over by Air Thahiti Nui, and NRT-NOU by AirCalin.


UTA in the 80's had also an "around the world" route, operated with a DC-10 :


CDG-BAH-SIN-CGK-SYD-NOU-PPT-SFO-CDG


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User currently offlineAseem From India, joined Feb 2005, 2034 posts, RR: 6
Reply 3, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5441 times:

How about AC's HKG-YYZ, YYZ-DEL non-stop flights..
rgds
Aseem


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User currently offlineFeroze From India, joined Dec 2004, 755 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5433 times:
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UA, pre-11.9.01, had a round the world flight.

US points varied but latterly the routing was LAX-IAD-LHR-DEL-HKG-LAX and vv. Flight numbers were UA001 and UA002


Regards,

Feroze

User currently offlineFlySSC From Lebanon, joined Aug 2003, 5346 posts, RR: 52
Reply 5, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5438 times:

Aseem,

HKG-YYZ-DEL doesn't make a "round the world" tour... or maybe I missed something !  Nuts

User currently offlineAirgeek12 From , joined today!, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5353 times:

This is a very interesting thread.

The only one I know of is Singapore's SIN-JFK route, which isn't even all the way around the world, but pretty darn close.

[Edited 2005-02-22 14:19:57]

User currently offlineHOONS90 From Canada, joined Aug 2001, 1855 posts, RR: 49
Reply 7, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 5318 times:
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Quoting Airgeek12 (reply 6):
The only one I know of is Singapore's SIN-JFK route, which isn't even all the way around the world, but pretty darn close.


Incorrect. It's SIN-EWR.


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User currently offlineFlying Belgian From Belgium, joined Jun 2001, 1787 posts, RR: 10
Reply 8, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 5119 times:
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I remember the famous United 1:

LHR-DEL-HKG-ORD-LHR.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

FB.


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User currently offlineAeroWesty From United States, joined Oct 2004, 15527 posts, RR: 63
Reply 9, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 5058 times:

Quoting FlySSC (reply 2):
CDG-BAH-SIN-CGK-SYD-NOU-PPT-SFO-CDG


I *wish* it had been SFO, but UTA's port of entry in the U.S. was LAX. A little UTA memorabilia:

http://www.airchive.com/Memorabilia/Various/*UTAad.jpg

Cheers.  Smile


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User currently offlineTimz From United States, joined Sep 1999, 4823 posts, RR: 3
Reply 10, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4971 times:

Actual RTW flights, with no change of plane, have been pretty rare, and I assume there hasn't been one since United's. (Passenger flights, anyway.)

I'm guessing AF and UTA didn't fly all the way round with one plane, but I'll check. When do you think it was?

User currently offlineJakob77 From United Kingdom (England), joined Sep 2004, 208 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4945 times:

Sticking to the original poster's conditions, SQ's SIN-EWR and SIN-FRA-JFK flights can't be considered a RTW flight. SIN-EWR and SIN-FRA-JFK are operated with different equipments and they don't even meet at the same airport.

User currently offlineN1120A From France, joined Dec 2003, 22630 posts, RR: 78
Reply 12, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4898 times:

>I remember the famous United 1:

LHR-DEL-HKG-ORD-LHR. <

UA 1/2 transited LAX and IAD in the US, not ORD. LHR-DEL-HKG-LAX-IAD-LHR and LHR-IAD-LAX-HKG-DEL-LHR


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User currently offlineTimz From United States, joined Sep 1999, 4823 posts, RR: 3
Reply 13, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4866 times:

The stops are correct for UA above, but LAX was the endpoint, not LHR.

User currently offlineFlySSC From Lebanon, joined Aug 2003, 5346 posts, RR: 52
Reply 14, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4838 times:

Aerowesty,

UTA DID flew CDG-SFO-CDG, and SFO-PPT-SFO for a while.
Then there was an agreement with AF : UTA was serving SFO from CDG and added flights on LAX-PPT, in connection with the AF's flight coming from Paris.

User currently offlineN1120A From France, joined Dec 2003, 22630 posts, RR: 78
Reply 15, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4823 times:

>The stops are correct for UA above, but LAX was the endpoint, not LHR.<

This is true, as LAX was and is a 747 base


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User currently offlineFeroze From India, joined Dec 2004, 755 posts, RR: 1
Reply 16, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4811 times:
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Quoting Feroze (reply 4):
US points varied but latterly the routing was LAX-IAD-LHR-DEL-HKG-LAX and vv. Flight numbers were UA001 and UA002


Quoting N1120A (reply 12):
>I remember the famous United 1:

LHR-DEL-HKG-ORD-LHR. <

UA 1/2 transited LAX and IAD in the US, not ORD. LHR-DEL-HKG-LAX-IAD-LHR and LHR-IAD-LAX-HKG-DEL-LHR


Quoting N1120A (reply 12):
The stops are correct for UA above, but LAX was the endpoint, not LHR.


As I pointed out in reply 4!

Regards,

Feroze

User currently offlineAeroWesty From United States, joined Oct 2004, 15527 posts, RR: 63
Reply 17, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4803 times:

Quoting FlySSC (reply 14):
UTA DID flew CDG-SFO-CDG


Well blow me down, that one passed me by completely then. When did UTA serve SFO?


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User currently offlineGigneil From United States, joined Nov 2002, 13403 posts, RR: 79
Reply 18, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4797 times:

The point, of course, is that there presently is no RTW flight.

CX is planning one, as soon as they get their LHR-JFK underway.

N

User currently offlineMNeo From Bulgaria, joined Mar 2004, 704 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 4799 times:

IF/when CX gets the JFK-LHR route it will be the only airline to fly around the world HKG-JFK-LHR-HKG


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