Longest plane journey you have been on (airplanes, airports, international flights)
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LA to Sydney, Australia. My father took me and my 3 sisters there for 3 weeks when we were 15-20. First class on frequent flyer miles. I think it was worth it, but would love to experience Australia as an adult again.
Shanghai to Tokyo, 2.5 hours, with a 12 hour layover
Tokyo to Atlanta, 12 hrs. 30 minutes.
God, that was a long trip. The layover was our chance to quickly visit Tokyo for a day after spending two months in Shanghai -- in retrospect, it really wiped us out. Still fun, though. :-) I'd do the Atlanta--Shanghai trip again in a flash, would probably skip the Tokyo layover the next time, though.
My husband had a 22 hour flight to New Delhi from Atlanta, with a change of planes in Amsterdam. Said it was a miserable flight.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Tokyo, Japan, (via Seattle, Washington) on Northwest Airlines to visit friends who were working there. Their company had given them an apartment that had a guest room with its own bath and they were happy to have visitors from home, so they encouraged me to stay for two weeks. Best vacation I every had. I could never have afforded a trip to Japan without them hosting me in their home. I will be forever grateful for the experience.
Surprisingly decent on a Dreamliner. Although if the planes could leave LAX about six hours earlier it would work better for people coming from places outside of LA. They would land at midnight rather than 6 am, and leaving at about 4pm would give them the chance to take off, get settled, feed you, clean up and turn the lights out around 8pm (which would be as late as 11 for the east coasters). Then you could watch a movie, go to sleep and wake up with only a few hours to go. They way they do it now it's 2am LA time (5am east coast) at the very best before they turn the lights out, so your body wakes you up after only a few hours, then you have to sit there hungry with the windows closed for another ten hours until you arrive.
Touching down and changing planes doesn't count, sorry.
Been to southwest Asia and the middle east a few times. Very long flights.
Was it worth it to go there just to get shot at? Nah. Would I do it again. Sure.
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