What commercial flight route has the biggest number of stops/layovers?

Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by olegkikin on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:41AM (#12845602)

I once flew from Hawaii to the middle of Russia, booked last moment due to an emergency.

5 different flights to get there, 4 to return.

45 hours to get there, 36 hours to get back.

Crying babies next to me on 3 of the flights.

Worst flying experience ever.

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by cdubzzz on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:04AM (#12845784)

Not flying, but my worst travel experience ever was a 30 hour bus ride from Ouagadougou to Cape Coast. It's normally a bit shorter, but our bus was held up by highway robbers, who took all of my money.

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:55AM (#12846115)

Topper :) Though I would guess many developing world travel experiences are bad, while we are talking about first world problems here.

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by lisper on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:23AM (#12846503)

If you're including non-flight travel, I don't think you can beat Pitcairn Island in terms of sheer PITA-factor to get there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7MWxADnko

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by cdubzzz on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:54AM (#12846899)

Haha, I was originally going to comment about how you can always find a topper online. But in my case I get the story (no one was physically harmed, at least, and the police got there quickly). I'll take that over op's 81 hours of airline travel.

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by beachstartup on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:03AM (#12845777)

well, at least your life sounds much more exciting than mine.

curious, how much does an emergency ticket like that cost?

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by andrewaylett on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:18PM (#12847235)

The cheapest one-way ticket from HNL to CEK (Chelyabinsk) tomorrow costs $2100. Getting there as quickly as possible (so leaving today and taking only 35h to get there) costs $3k.

Source: your favourite meta-search. And since I work for one, I won't link any :).

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by olegkikin on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:14PM (#12847925)

It was around $3-4K, in the summer, and it was from Kauai.

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Re:What commercial flight route has the biggest number of st... by guard-of-terra on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:35AM (#12845983)

He's probably just a Russian who got disturbed on his vacation, you might be overestimating the excitement.

If we're sharing, my longest one to date is:

Cuzco - Lima (long layover, we got to visit Museo Larco and eat pizza) - Panama - Dominicana (technical stop, but we had to disembark) - Frankfurt - Moscow.

It was pretty painless, I only regret missing one lunch by being asleep.

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