Most Wacky Itinerary

KaiGywer · Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:16 am

Just wondering what your weirdest itinerary has been. I am going to visit my family outside of PAH, and instead of flying MSP-MEM-PAH with NW, I'll do the whole thing on XJ.

This means:
MSP-ASE
ASE-MEM
MEM-PAH
and back,
PAH-MEM
MEM-STL
STL-MSP

Going to Aspen on my way from MSP to MEM, must be one of the longest detours you can make on the XJ routes Big grin

KaiGywer · Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:18 am

And also, this summer, I might do this on CO:

MSP-IAH
IAH-EWR
EWR-OSL

I wanna try the 777, so instead of going straight MSP-EWR in an ERJ or 735, I'll go through IAH and get a 777 on the IAH-EWR leg.

asuflyer05 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:25 am

1.) EWR-IAD-PIT-PHX
2.) PHX-PIT-BWI-LGA
3.) LGA-DCA-PIT-PHX

9 segments and a bunch of US Airways miles.

KaiGywer · Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:36 am

Asuflyer05, what were your final destinations? EWR and PHX?

KLM11 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:42 am

Im not sure if this gets the record for layovers, but for duration I think it gets first place! Smile

CLD-LAX (35 MIN, UA, EMB-120)
LAX-SIN (18 1/2 HRS, SQ, A340-500)
SIN-MLE (3 1/2 HRS, SQ, B772)
Round Trip

Time = 22 HRS, 35 MIN + 4 HR layover in LAX, 2 HR in SIN

Grand Total Time = 28 Hours, 35 Minites one way.

airbear · Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:02 am

Last year, on a QF FF reward freebie from DRW to ADL, the web site threw up this routing: DRW-CNS-ASP-ADL leaving DRW at 0610 arr. ADL 1500 or so, if I remember correctly. All different flt. nos. & a/c. Had enough time in CNS to grab a taxi and have a real breakfast on the Esplanande, on a beautiful morning.

Not a quick trip, but also not a bad way to spend most of a day, either! And, through all this my bag turned up in ADL when I did.

N312RC · Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:17 am

DTW-BHM-ATL-SRQ-ATL-BHM-DTW on Mesaba/Northwest/Delta

CX777 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:17 am

Recent trip to India:

KJFK-EDDF-WSSS-VABB

Rount trip was $120 extra than going thru Europe, but I got to spend 1 great sunny day doing what I really enjoy Smile/happy/getting dizzy

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flyingnanook · Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:19 am

A few years ago from FAI-MDW

FAI-ANC-SEA-PDX Alaska
PDX-DEN-MDW Frontier
It took something like 18 hours.

I was supposed to fly the same route back skipping ANC but due to flight delays it went like:

MDW-MSP-PDX Northwest (shoulda been Frontier via DEN)
PDX-SEA-FAI Alaska
That took about 26 hours.

The wacky thing was that this was the summer that AS started its nonstop between ORD and ANC and I could have flown with them.

CMK10 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:02 pm

I think I got you all beat. PHX-ORD-MCI-DFW-SNA-JFK on AA. I left PHX at 7:35 AM and arrived at NYC / Kennedy at 5:11 AM. East to go south to go south west to go west to go east. None of you went within 740 miles of your target airport, then ended up over 2400 from it crossing over your origin in the process!

asuflyer05 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:11 pm

KaiGywer,

#1 was heading back to Phoenix. #2 & 3 are part of a round trip to LGA.

Matt

HPCMHPHX · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:17 pm

NW CMH-DTW-TPA-DTW-CMH
NW CMH-DTW-MCO-DTW-CMH
Before CMH-MEM on NW

DL MCO-CVG-CMH with a 3 hour delay in CVG.

WN DAL-MSY-IND-MDW-CMH. This was to be my return trip after training in Dallas, this was actually set up by management.

Cactus739 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:18 pm

I've done a couple....

MCI-ORD-SFO-LAX-PHX on American
PHX-SEA-PDX-ANC-FAI on Alaska
FAI-ANC-PDX-SEA-LAX-LAS-PHX on Alaska/America West

RareBear · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:39 pm

My most memorable:

JAX-DAB-ORL-LAL-TPA-PIE-SRQ-PMY-PBI-FLL-MIA-EYW

National Airlines CV-440

Made the round trip in one long day.

usa4624 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:46 pm

All I wanted to do was get from SLC to AUS, and this is how America West routed me: SLC-PHX-ELP-IAH-AUS

That was a long day!

SHUPirate1 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:54 pm

I remember one time looking up LGA-IAH information on Expedia, and they came up with the following ingenious routing for me on US Airways (well, they advertised it as US Airways):

LGA-DCA-MSY-DFW-IAH-DFW-MSY-DCA-LGA

(note: MSY-DFW-IAH-DFW-MSY operated by Delta Connection/Atlantic Southeast Airlines)

Needless to say, I instead waited another month, and saved 60 bucks by instead flying LGA-ORD-IAH-ORD-LGA on United, and also got two more free tickets, tickets to be used on two more trips with identical itineraries...certainly worth the wait (both for waiting to book travel, and for waiting 8 hours one way, 6 hours the other in ORD)

mfricke · Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:21 pm

I love flying wacky itinerarys. My best was last spring break, when I flew from Phoenix to Houston. I got this routing on Expedia:

NW PHX-DTW
NW DTW-BHM
NW BHM-MEM
CO MEM-IAH

Return:
NW IAH-DTW
NW DTW-IND
NW IND-MSP
NW MSP-PHX

flyingnanook · Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:14 pm

I just remembered I was helping a friend find flights from the DC area to RDU and this is what Expedia yielded:

BWI-PHL-IAD-RDU

That cost $209 roundtrip while just the last flight IAD-RDU was $350 round trip. Now that is something I just don't understand. Why would adding on two extra flights cost less than just the one flight?

mymiles2go · Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:47 pm

SEA-NRT-BKK-HKT-BKK-SIN-MLE-Little Atoll-MLE-SIN-HKG-NRT-SEA

Some of my other interesting ones are: SEA-DEN-SAT-ORD-MKE-ORD-JAX-IAD-LAX-SEA, over a couple of weeks.

LHcapt2007 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:59 pm

General aviation in a 152 - ACT(waco,TX)-SEP(stephenville,TX)-ABI(abilene,TX)-LBB(lubbock,TX)-AMA(amarillo,TX) and back direct AMA-ACT!! due to extremely strong westerly winds aloft, needed plenty of fuel to spare.

Airlines: soon a Southwest flight DAL(dallas)-AMA(amarillo)-ABQ(albuquerque sunport)-PHX(pheonix sky harbor) then the same route back! Stops always mean a lot of time at the airport AND in the air!

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TransIsland · Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:59 pm

I was using the Sabre booking system to get a flight from TXL to FRA (270 miles), and when it listed the search results, there were a lot of flights within the normal price range, and then there was one that was a couple of thousand dollars. Curiosity got the better of me and I looked at the details, to go from TXL to FRA I would have gone TXL-LHR-BKK-SYD-SIN-FRA ... 21,508 miles!! Wow!

Needless to say, I did not book this itinerary.

bohica · Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:16 pm

This used to be in Apollo:

SMF-CEC

It had a connection in SFO. However the connecting flight went through SMF!!!

The routing was SMF-SFO-SMF-ACV-CEC. Big grin

paulc · Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:36 pm

Southampton (SOU) to Rome (FCO)

SOU - EDI Flybe
EDI - FRA LH
FRA - MUC LH
MUC - FCO LH

JGPH1A · Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:55 pm

For Thanksgiving weekend in 1998, I did in 4 days...

LGW AA-RDU / GSO US- PIT US-BOS US-PHL US-GSO US / RDU AA - LGW

To get back to NCE from PLH last April, I did

PLH-Roscoff (ferry), Roscoff-Morlaix (bus), Morlaix-Brest (TGV), BES-NTE (DB CR7), NTE-CFE (YS EM2), CFE-NCE (YS S20).

I once visited KIM for the weekend as follows

JNB-DUR-PLZ-CPT-KIM then KIM-BFN-JNB.

Guest · Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:47 pm

A couple years back

SAN-LAX-ATL-CLT-IND-LAS-CMH-DCA-PHX-SAN

On DL, US, TZ, HP

keno · Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:00 pm

This only involved 1 flight but combined with other modes of transportation, it was my worst and most tiring journey ever :-

ITH-NYC Shortline bus, 5 hours
NYC-BOS Peter Pan bus, 3 hours
BOS-LHR British Airways, 6.5 hours
LHR-SOU British Railway, 1.5 hours
SOU-ACI Channel Islands Ferry, 3 hours

Not including waiting time at bus stations, airports, rail station & ferry port. The whole journey took more than 24 hours.

SK901 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:41 pm

In 1995 I did

KRP - CPH on SK
CPH - AMS on DM
SPL - MSP on KL
MSP - LGA on NW

That was one long trip. Usually I go KRP-CPH-EWR it is a flight
time of about 9 hours plus the wait in CPH about 1 hour.

N276AASTT · Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:11 pm

Leave it to the military to plan my trip, and see what I got!

Atlanta-Charlotte USAirways

Charlotte-Chicago USAirways

Chicago-Sacramento United

All this when Delta has a non-stop Atlanta-Sacramento. Nuts

flyingdoctorwu · Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:30 pm

In January- I fly on NW this routing over a week
CHS-DTW-ORD
ORD-DTW-DEN
DEN-DTW-BOS
BOS-DTW-CHS

All for like $680
lots of time for NWA for sure!

Chris

js · Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:10 pm

Planned was YQR-YYC-SFO

Actual was as follows:

YQR-YYC, arrived late and missed my connection, rerouted through GEG
YYC-GEG, again arrived late, rerouted through DEN
GEG-DEN, again arrived late, rerouted through SJC
SJC-SFO, bus connection to SFO

The trip was originally scheduled for 5 1/2 hours and it wound up taking 19!

nwadc10 · Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:29 pm

In 1998 did this over a week:

BOS-ATL
ATL-LAX
LAX-SIN
SIN-MAA
MAA-BOM
BOM-AMS
AMS-BOS

Was a lot of fun going all around our lovely planet and my luggage always arrived with me Smile

ETStar · Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:41 am

Did this for xmas/new year of 2002/2003:

YYJ - YVR (AC) - YYC (WJ)- MSP (NW) - DCA/IAD (NW) - ADD (via EWR and FCO on Ethiopian)
ADD (via EWR and FCO on Ethiopian) - IAD - DTW (NW) - SEA (NW) - YVR (QX) - YYJ (AC)

Both ways, did not have any long layover at any of the cities... straight connections. My bags made it with me, all the way.

kjet12 · Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:50 am

HNL-SFO-EUG-PDX-ORD non-reving on United Airlines.

Kris

B747-437B · Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:54 am

Try ATL-LAX using a routing of ATL-STL-CMI-ORD-PIT-JFK-LHR-JFK-BOS-ORD-MKE-STL-SGF-DFW-SAN-LAX

flyTPA · Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:58 am

Back in 1995, I flew home to Florida after vacationing in Sicily.

My transatlantic flights were free on BA courtesy of USAir frequent flyer miles.

CTA-FCO IG D95
FCO-LHR BA 757
LHR-ORD BA 742
ORD-CLT US D9S
CLT-TPA US 733

caetravlr · Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:59 am

The best one I ever pulled was my vacation last summer using Star Alliance FF miles:

Before the bombing in Jakarta, I was going to go to Bali with the following routing:
CAE - IAD -UAX
IAD - FRA -LH
FRA - BKK - TG
BKK - DPS - TG - I think it might have been 30 something hours?

A couple of days later:
DPS - SIN -SQ

A couple of days later coming home:
SIN - MAN -SQ
MAN - IAD -BMI
IAD - CAE -UAX

What I actually ended up doing:
CAE - IAD -UAX
IAD - CDG -UAL
CDG - BKK -TG

A couple of days later:
BKK - SIN -SQ

And returning home:
SIN - CDG -SQ
CDG - ORD -UAL
ORD - CAE - UAX

I will never, ever CONNECT in CDG again. EVER. However, I will one day visit Paris.

Domestically, I was late booking a trip home from my client in PA over the holiday season a couple of years ago, and ended up flying from MDT - CAE via:
MDT - IAD - CVG - CAE, whereas it was usually just MDT - IAD - CAE. Orbitz found me that routing, which was all that was available at the time.

Some of you guys have me beat, but mine certainly seemed a lot more complicated while I was doing it!

DeltaMIA · Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:18 am

Expedia is notorious for throwing people around the country and in turn it may only save them a few dollars.
I have seen several routings out of Florida that use RDU as a connecting point on DL.
Some are sensible being the time of year or day of week it is as flights to the Northeast can be full at times, but I have seen these on more than one occasion.
FL city - ATL-RDU-BOS
FL city - ATL-RDU-LGA
FL city - ATL-RDU-LGA- final destination (ie MHT).
FL city - ATL-RDU-BOS- final destination (ie BTV).

THE BEST THOUGH is a routing to AVL that Expedia does.
FL city - ATL-RDU-CVG-AVL
I have even seen this one turn the trip into a layover in RDU and not break the fare, for instance arrive RDU at 11:30pm and depart for CVG at 6:00am.

As wacky as these are it is amazing that the passenger still chooses these options.

propatriamori · Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:28 am

Booked this as one itinerary on purpose (must be an airline enthusiast), all flights left and departed on the same day, last Saturday, 3/6/04.

MNL-HKG - CX 905 (wanted to see HKG airport, and visit Cathay's Pier and Wing Lounges)
HKG-TPE - CX 450 (Heard from an FA that the CX lounge had great beef noodles)
TPE-Narita - CX 450 (needed to connect to AA for some FF bonus miles)
Narita-DFW - AA 60 (first trip to Terminal C Admirals Club)
DFW-ELP - AA 1373 (headed home)

Total Flight Time: 26:45
Thank Goodness they were all in Business Class.

netdhaka · Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:29 am

In 2001, I flew the following route:

MSP-ORD
ORD-LHR
LHR-DOH
DOH-AUH
AUH-DAC

Return:

DAC-BAH
BAH-LHR
LHR-ORD
ORD-MSP

asuflyer05 · Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:35 am

I actually choose these wacky routings because I earn more miles and segments. If I didn't I would me a lowly regular Dividend Miles member. Where as now I am pacing to be silver by the end of July.

yegbey01 · Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:22 pm

I had a wild one:

BEY-DXB-LGW (EK) then took a bus from LGW to LHR-YUL-YOW-YYZ (AC)

yegbey01 · Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:26 pm

Free ticket on Air Canada: (booked it on line)

YEG-YYC-YXE-YWG-YYZ-YUL

kiwiair727tpa · Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:21 pm

Mine was on British Airways from TPA to ORD I traveled
TPA-LGW
LGW-ORD

I did this when I was in the military and I got my enlistment bonus and wanted to take the long way back to great mistakes (Great lakes ILL)

Steve In Tampa

Lan_Fanatic · Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:26 pm

I've had two:

Alitalia

SCL-EZE
EZE-FCO
FCO-LHR...returning flght was:

CDG-FCO
FCO-EZE
EZE-SCL
______________
KLM

SCL-EZE
EZE-AMS
AMS-LYS....and the return flight was:

CDG-AMS
AMS-GRU
GRU-EZE
EZE-SCL

irishpower · Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:10 pm

I was supposed to fly SFO-CDG once but the plane had mechanical problems so I had to fly SFO-LAX-SEA-LHR-CDG!!!!!

kevin752 · Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:21 pm

My most wacky itinerary was:
LAX-ORD United Airlines B747-200 UA952
ORD-DUS Supposed to be (LH431) Never made the flight
ORD-FRA United Airlines B747-400
FRA-ZAG Lufthansa B737-300
ZAG-SPU Croatia Airlines A319-111

fuffla · Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:44 pm

Thai Airways have given us the privilage of having this one:

SYD-MEL
MEL- Phuket
Phuket-BKK

Its not too bad, you's get a lot of miles but I don't mid the extra flying.

B757capt · Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:48 am

ORD-CVG-MDW-ATL-CUN

Flight in CVG got canceled to ATL and next flight was back in Chicago.

WHAT A MESS

sllevin · Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:24 pm

A couple of years ago I needed to get from SJC to BUR just one way. It was near-last minute, so Southwest wanted $107 with tax. Playing around (and I could leave the night before) I found an AA open-jaw fare:

SJC-ORD-BWI (5 hours in BWI) BWI-DFW-BUR for $212.

Obviously, if I couldn't have left the day before it wouldn't have worked, but it was a pretty good deal Smile

BWI has a 24 hour Burger King and some comfy couches right near it for hanging out that made it pretty decent.

Steve

RonE · Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:33 pm

My most wacky route was from SYD to YEG- I booked more or less at the last possible second so my itnerary was as follows:

SYD-AKL with AirNZ 747-200
AKL-NAN NZ 742
NAN-HNL NZ 742
HNL-LAX NZ 742
Overnight at LAX and then:
LAX-MSP NW DC-10
MSP-YEG DC-9

I departed Sydney on June 5th 1995 around 12:00 in the afternoon, arrived in Edmonton on June 6th at 11:00 at night. And it was actually TWO days, since we crossed the international dateline and went one day "backwards" so it was equivalent to arriving on June 7th.

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