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Some of you may remember back on ASO I started a thread up about crazy airfares after getting bargain flights in biz class with Iberia to South Africa.

Well during the revolution round these parts this weekend i took said flights to South Africa - departing sunday evening, arriving back this morning - having flown all the way from London for one night and one meeting in South Africa before flying back.

In a carbon footprint worthy of a politician, myself and my boss had our meeting and it lasted all of 10 minutes

Despite how it might sound, it actually went very well. But my calculations it is around 18,000 kms from LHR to JNB and back via MAD. Thats over 10,000 miles.

So that means around 1,000 miles flown per minute of meeting held (by both of us).

I think I deserve a round of applause for such a wasteful flight in the true traditions of aviation enthusiastery


(And anyone ever done similar?)

cornish wrote:Some of you may remember back on ASO I started a thread up about crazy airfares after getting bargain flights in biz class with Iberia to South Africa.

Well during the revolution round these parts this weekend i took said flights to South Africa - departing sunday evening, arriving back this morning - having flown all the way from London for one night and one meeting in South Africa before flying back.

In a carbon footprint worthy of a politician, myself and my boss had our meeting and it lasted all of 10 minutes

Despite how it might sound, it actually went very well. But my calculations it is around 18,000 kms from LHR to JNB and back via MAD. Thats over 10,000 miles.

So that means around 1,000 miles flown per minute of meeting held (by both of us).

I think I deserve a round of applause for such a wasteful flight in the true traditions of aviation enthusiastery


(And anyone ever done similar?)

I flew MIA-JFK-ZRH-BSL-ZRH-JFK-MIA for a 25 minute meeting...

miamiair wrote:
I flew MIA-JFK-ZRH-BSL-ZRH-JFK-MIA for a 25 minute meeting...

Excellent !!

Medals and Commendations all round I feel

I take my hat off to you, Cornish for making Plymspotter look like a complete amateur in the unneccesary air miles stakes. We must use your achievements as both a yardstick and an inspiration as we seek to create a combined site footprint of epic proportions. I hereby propose a name change to Co2nish

JLAmber wrote: I hereby propose a name change to Co2nish

I LIKE it !

Nice work, man.

I did a day trip to Barbados from MAN once, to deliver some documents - though I got to stay a night due to the flight timings

mhodgson wrote:I did a day trip to Barbados from MAN once, to deliver some documents - though I got to stay a night due to the flight timings

Jesus, such a hard life you live

cornish wrote:(And anyone ever done similar?)

Not the same distance, but the same "silliness".

I was lecturing at a conference in San Luis Obispo, CA in 1999 . . . I had been there M-T-W and planned to stay thru Thu and leave Fri morning for SAN where I was to attend another conference. Boss called on Thursday afternoon, said you have to be back in DC tomorrow morning for an 8am meeting I asked if we could VTC the thing, but he said nope, need to have you here Eyes On. Well, shit, I said. I have to be in SAN Friday night. He said, you better start flying then.

I called US Airways, got booked out of SFO that evening, took a UA puddle jumper from San Luis Obispo to SFO, flew to Baltimore (only flight I could get to the DC area that night), grabbed a rental car at BWI (my Personal Vehicle was in my parking spot at the Pentagon), drove to the blasted meeting - got stopped by DCPD for making a U-Turn at Anacostia too*** - went on to the meeting, for 35 minutes. Managed a quick trip over to my apartment in Crystal City to SSSC, then back to BWI to turn in the car and fly to SAN. Got to SAN about 1900 that night.

Cost the gov't a bunch of $$ for that little foray back to DC though.

*** I played ignorant. I knew there was a NO U-Turn Sign there, as I had previously ignored same a hundred times. There is NO off ramp from I-395 onto the I-95(South) in Anacostia, so everyone gets off North bound and does a U-Turn. Anyone who's been thru there knows what I'm talking about. I played ignorant, told the cop I was in a rental, and not from the area. produced my Alaska Operator's License, and he said "WOW, you really AREN'T from here are you". I got a stern warning and off I went.

I once had to burn 2500 pounds of fuel off an airplane to get it under the maximum jacking weight. I did this becasue it was faster (and more fun) than getting the de-fuel people out to the hangar in the middle of the night.

Engine break-in runs and oil consumption runs always consume a lot of fuel when you just have to sit there for 30 minutes with the engines at a high power setting.