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1. where was the longest flight you have ever been on? how long? Longest was from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles when I was nine years old - about 14 hours.
2. where was the shortest flight you've ever been on? how long? Shortest flight was from Burbank to Sacramento, an hour.
3. where was your first flight to and how old were you? I remember flying back to see my grandmother in New York on a 747 when I was only six years old.
4. what was your most recent flight? Coming home from seeing my father in Florida three years ago.
5. what was your scariest flight? The one from Rio to L.A., because the pilot decided to fly through a thunderstorm! Stuff was flying!
1. where was the longest flight you have ever been on? how long?
Longest was from Atlanta to Honolulu, about 8.5 hours takeoff to touchdown.
2. where was the shortest flight you've ever been on? how long?
Probably Philadelphia to Baltimore. 25 minutes in the air (connecting that I was put on at the last second).
3. where was your first flight to and how old were you?
1.5 years old to Huntsville AL for my cousins wedding
4. what was your most recent flight?
Coming back from DC yesterday to Boston after getting vaccinated.
5. what was your scariest flight?
Many of the DC-Burlington VT flights I did as a kid. small plane with a lot of turbulence.
1. where was the longest flight you have ever been on? how long?
Newark to Delhi, India- I think about 12 hours. Newark to Rio was similar. I've been in transit close to 24 hours many times but that involved connections.
2. where was the shortest flight you've ever been on? how long?
Ah, bragging rights. Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkneys, 1 minute, world's shortest scheduled airline flight. I have the certificate to prove it.
3. where was your first flight to and how old were you?
Columbus, Ohio to Akron-Canton. I was 16.
4. what was your most recent flight?
Getting out of Bolivia in March, 2020 after a tour was cut short. That was exciting- La Paz to Santa Cruz (big planes couldn't take off from La Paz because the altitude required too long of a takeoff roll, connections were out because countries were closing their borders), Santa Cruz to Miami to Houston to MCI. In transit 20 hours.
5. what was your scariest flight?
None, really, but a few really very bad delays. One of the worst was waiting in ORD for a flight to London at about 9 PM, delayed, delayed, delayed.. and cancelled around 1 AM. Took another 2 hours to get my bag back and the shuttle for the hotel they put us in never showed up even though I called repeatedly, Checked into the Hilton across the street and got a "day rate" it was so late, and a late checkout. Bless them. Took the same flight number a day late.
Longest flight: Washington-Dulles to Seoul-Incheon, nonstop in both directions. About 14 hours each way.
Shortest flight: Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach, approximately 20 minutes or so. Time spent taxiing on the ground was probably longer than the flight itself.
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Originally Posted by athena53
Ah, bragging rights. Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkneys, 1 minute, world's shortest scheduled airline flight. I have the certificate to prove it.
You have noidea how jealous I am!
First flight: Age 10, flying from Fort Lauderdale to Washington (with a stop in West Palm Beach).
Most recent flight: last October, Tampa to Baltimore.
Scariest flight: I've never been scared on a plane. Probably the flight that would have scared people the most was a flight that left West Palm Beach at the crazy early hour of 3:00 a.m. We made an intermediate stop in Jacksonville and then continued toward Atlanta. Along the way, we flew into an ice storm. That plane was bounced around so badly, I think nearly everyone got airsick, except for me. Delta Flight 490, February 1982. I'll never forget it.
Ok, I'll play! Nice to get away from the 'Rona for a bit!
1. where was the longest flight you have ever been on? how long?
Detroit to Tokyo, about 13 hours.
2. where was the shortest flight you've ever been on? how long?
"Private" planes, just minutes, but commercial - San Juan to Punta Cana...about 20 minutes.
3. where was your first flight to and how old were you?
10-ish, Ohio to Orlando...I think.
4. what was your most recent flight?
2 months ago, Dallas to PIT
5. what was your scariest flight?
On way home from Brazil, Sept. 29, 2006 - mid air collision between two other planes, sometime before I took off, 154 people died. We unknowingly flew over the wreckage "down there somewhere" and did not learn of the accident until we landed. Obviously not scary at the time - we did not know. But that's when I learned that Air Traffic Control is a ... missing feature ... of Rain Forest Flying. Things may be different now...or not...
1. where was the longest flight you have ever been on? how long?
Johannesburg to New York JFK, 16 hours
2. where was the shortest flight you've ever been on? how long?
San Francisco to Stockton, CA, maybe 25 minutes in the air on a DC-9. Plane was packed. Flight attendants had time to pass out a piece of red, white, and blue salt water taffy to everyone. All passengers got off in Stockton except for three of us who continued on to Twin Falls and a few other Idaho destinations. I remember we three remaining pax were served soup in real bowls, and then the FA bagged up the bowls in plastic bags so we could take them with us.
3. where was your first flight to and how old were you? 13 or so. San Francisco to Salt Lake City
4. what was your most recent flight? November 2019, JFK to San Jose, CA
5. what was your scariest flight? Short hop on from Reno to San Jose, CA on the now-gone AirCal. SEVERE turbulence coming over the Sierra Nevada.
1. where was the longest flight you have ever been on? how long?
2. where was the shortest flight you've ever been on? how long?
3. where was your first flight to and how old were you?
4. what was your most recent flight
5. what was your scariest flight?
I'm not sure why I have all of these questions. Just curious
1. Los Angeles, CA to Sydney, Australia. (Don't ask me how long. It was long.)
2. Salt Lake City, UT to Boise Idaho. (Less than an hour)
3. Salt Lake City, UT to San Francisco, CA. I was around ten years old.
4. Just got back from Honolulu, HI
5. San Juan, PR to Atlanta, GA. The plane had a fire in an engine and had to divert to Miami, FL.
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