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First flight:  Belfast City - London Stansted.

Last Flight: Birmingham - Dublin.

Shortest Flight: Dublin - Shannon.

Longest Flight : London Heathrow - Bangkok.

Favourite Airport : London Gatwick (south terminal)

Least favourite Airport: Belfast International.

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First flight:   Invicta Airways from Manston Airport Kent to Ostend (1967 on G-AHOY)

Last Flight:   Air China 06 January 2020 Shanghai to Gatwick

Shortest Flight    Manila to Clark (Angeles) (Seair) (About 20 mins)

Longest Flight :  Vancouver to Hong Kong (Singapore Airlines) (About 14 hours)

Favourite Airport   Koh Samui

Least favourite Airport   Delhi Airport

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First flight:  Ringway to las Palmas, Gran Canaria

Last Flight: Fuerteventura to Bristol

Shortest Flight Cardiff to Edinburgh

Longest Flight :London to Bangkok

Favourite Airport :Hamad International 

Least favourite Airport: Mumbai

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First flight :- Manchester to Palma Majorca 1980

Last flight :- Copenhagen to Manchester

Shortest flight:- either Halmstad to Bromma Stockholm or Don Mueang to Hat Yai. 

Longest flight :- Copenhagen to Bangkok, 9.5 hours!!!

Favourite Airport :- none.

Least favourite Airport :- Heathrow 

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First flight: Gatwick to Malaga

Last Flight: Bucharest - Heathrow

Shortest Flight: Flew in a microlite once Pattaya to near Sattahip apart from that Holguin to Havana

Longest Flight: London LHR to Phnom Penh

Favourite Airport: Toronto or Istanbul great lounges for stop overs

Least favourite: Delhi horrible place

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First flight:  No idea.

Last Flight: Dubai to Bangkok. 18/3/20

Shortest Flight: Edinburgh to Glasgow.  Holiday charter that went on to Spain somewhere.

Longest Flight: Sydney to Dubai.

Favourite Airport:  Glasgow.  Solely for the Emirates Lounge.

Least favourite:  Tunisia somewhere.  Just a frame with a canvas roof.  Not even a baggage conveyor.

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First flight:  Stüde - Stüde (Glider), first five (5) flights

Last Flight:  HKG - AMS (HAN - HKG - AMS)

Shortest Flight: Stüde - Stüde

Longest Flight: HKG - AMS

Favourite Airport: AMS (Schiphol)

Least favourite Airport: CdG

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First flight:  Southampton to guernsey

Last Flight:  Dubai to gatwick

Shortest Flight: either Southampton to Guernsey,  or Manchester to lhr

Longest Flight : bkk to lhr

Favourite Airport   atutaki, cook islands. Or rarotonga, cook islands.

Least favourite Airport. Mumbai, or Los Angeles 

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First flight...Uk to Germany

Last flight...Muscat London

Shortest flight... Don Muang Udon Thani

Longest flight....Malaysian from KL to Heathrow with huge head winds 14.45 hours chock to chock

Favourite airport....Skiathos Greece

Least favourite airport....Tashkent when using Uzbekistan airways. Even 26 years later can recall vividly the craters in the concourses all roped off lol

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First flight     Montreal- Fort Lauderdale 

Last flight      Montreal - Calgary

Shortest flight      Toronto - Montreal

Longest flight       Chicago - Tokyo 12.5 hours on Japan Airlines

Favourite airport   Tokyo Narita

Least favourite     Toronto.....bloody zoo and it is always seems I’m in a rush there, hence I avoid it now

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First flight: Gatwick to Jersey in a Dakota,circa 1958

Last flight: Bucharest to Luton,Wizz Air,earlier this year

Shortest flight: In a glider at RAF Bovingdon late 1960's,the winch cable snapped & we came down with a bump

Longest flight: Heathrow-Manila,BA

Favourite airport: Heathrow on my way to Bangkok

Least favourite: Charles de Gaulle,although it's probably changed since I spent ages there in 1986 awaiting a connection

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14 minutes ago, coxyhog said:

First flight: Gatwick to Jersey in a Dakota,circa 1958

Last flight: Bucharest to Luton,Wizz Air,earlier this year

Shortest flight: In a glider at RAF Bovingdon late 1960's,the winch cable snapped & we came down with a bump

Longest flight: Heathrow-Manila,BA

Favourite airport: Heathrow on my way to Bangkok

Least favourite: Charles de Gaulle,although it's probably changed since I spent ages there in 1986 awaiting a connection

Your LHR MNL flight was via HKG, if that counts as the longest flight I might just have to update my answers as I was assuming a non stop flight lol

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11 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

Your LHR MNL flight was via HKG, if that counts as the longest flight I might just have to update my answers as I was assuming a non stop flight lol

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My longest flight was from London to Manilla on Philippine air, I think they are probably the only airline to do it direct.

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3 hours ago, Horizondave said:

Your LHR MNL flight was via HKG, if that counts as the longest flight I might just have to update my answers as I was assuming a non stop flight lol

Possibly,I can't remember as it was in 1985.If so my longest would be LHR - BKK.

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First flight:  Bournemouth - Jersey

Last Flight:  Bangkok - Heathrow

Shortest Flight  Guernsey -Jersey

Longest Flight : Bangkok - Heathrow

Favourite Airport   Udon (arrivals)

Least favourite  Udon (departures)

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First flight:  Manchester to Munich skiing as a kid

Last Flight:  Dublin to east mid

Shortest Flight : Me learning to fly doing circuits practising landing, 5 mins max flight

Longest Flight : Lon to Singapore, 13 hours

Favourite Airport   Any in the Uk when going on holiday

Least favourite Airport : Any in the Uk when returning from holiday

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On 4/6/2020 at 2:59 PM, dcfc2007 said:

First flight:   Baltimore to Montego Bay, Jamaica

Last Flight:  Incheon, S. Korea to BKK

Shortest Flight: Baltimore to Philadelphia

Longest Flight : JFK to BKK (non-stop) 17 1/2 hours!!!

Favourite Airport: Atlanta  

Least favourite Airport: Houston

Can anyone top 17 1/2 hours direct? Thai Airways did away with that flight in Summer 2008.

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11 minutes ago, Steelers4Life said:

Can anyone top 17 1/2 hours direct? Thai Airways did away with that flight in Summer 2008.

No ... but just as I was about to land at Heathrow flying from Thailand , the airport shut ( because of snow ) ... had to divert to Bonn in Germany .... eventually Heathrow reopened and I arrived three days later ....

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31 minutes ago, Stillearly said:

No ... but just as I was about to land at Heathrow flying from Thailand , the airport shut ( because of snow ) ... had to divert to Bonn in Germany .... eventually Heathrow reopened and I arrived three days later ....

^^^ That's brutal! I had a stopover at Helsinki airport years ago for 23 hours. The Finnair ticket I bought was dirt cheap. I thought 23 hours can't be that bad. Couldn't get a hotel at the airport. Some drivers and cabs outside but it was too far to take me to hotels in the area. I didn't want to wake up in East Bum F**k  Finland worrying about missing my departure. So the 23 hours felt like 23 days. I finally crashed in a sweet lounge type chair and slept ok. 

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1 minute ago, Steelers4Life said:

^^^ That's brutal! I had a stopover at Helsinki airport years ago for 23 hours. The Finnair ticket I bought was dirt cheap. I thought 23 hours can't be that bad. Couldn't get a hotel at the airport. Some drivers and cabs outside but it was too far to take me to hotels in the area. I didn't want to wake up in East Bum F**k  Finland worrying about missing my departure. So the 23 hours felt like 23 days. I finally crashed in a sweet lounge type chair and slept ok. 

Only the Europeans were allowed through immigration the first night , anyone else , including the EVA crew , had to sleep in the airport ... also we could only take our hand luggage ... I had no jacket or any other clothes .. it wasn't fun ..  🙂 

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On 4/7/2020 at 1:59 AM, dcfc2007 said:

First flight:  San Francisco To Los Angeles

Last Flight:  Pattaya to Udon Tahni

Shortest Flight  Bangkok to Siam Reap

Longest Flight : Thai air nonstop Los Angeles to Bangkok 

Favourite Airport  Tie Hong Kong  and Inchon   

Least favourite Airport  Tie LAX  (Los Angeles) and NAIA Manila. 

 

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