Ok I was recently on Orbitiz looking up airline tickets from Atlanta to Tokyo. Well the cheapest ones were about 995 bucks. That was expected.
However on a closer inspection I see that it says the flight is only 12 hours and non-stop. NON-STOP?! Yea right? Maybe if I chartered a B-52. Not only that but I also found what type of plane it was supposed to be on. They named a McDonald Dougles design that was retired from all airlines about 3 years ago. WTF? Is there no accurate, non-BS travel sits?
Riiiiiight
-
GatoNanashi
- Regular Member
- Posts: 177
- Joined: Wed May 08, 2002 8:55 pm
- Location: Where I woke up this morning..
I've been on several flights that have been 12+ hours or more...the longest non-stop flight I was on was 16 hours...
------
“The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
-
b_underdog
- Member
- Posts: 35
- Joined: Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:29 am
- Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
I did a search also on Orbitz and came up with Delta non-stop in an MD-11. If that's the plane you are talking about, they have not been retired. In fact they are going to be flown for probably 20 more years. The MD-11 was first built in 1986, so it's not very old at all, although they stopped production in 2001. FedEx uses MD-11's (along with the almost identical MD-10 and DC-10) for its primary aircraft. About 30 or 40 fly in a day here in Indianapolis. And an MD-11 DOES have the range to fly from Atlanta to Tokyo non-stop.
