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[M1chl]

Check in, but don’t fly? Airlines launch ‘flights to nowhere’

Airlines are selling trips that start and end at the same airport, to satisfy wanderlust during the pandemic.

www.marketwatch.com

All the fuss of air travel without actually going anywhere?

Airlines are hoping that the peculiar concept has some appeal for passengers desperate to satisfy their wanderlust while grappling with coronavirus limitations.

They’re called “no-destination” flights, an idea that comes as airlines entertain ways to boost cash flow amid a severe slump in passenger demand caused by the pandemic.

Singapore Airlines, for example, is considering launching a “flight to nowhere” from Changi Airport, starting in October. Basically, the passengers will board the plane, fly around for a few hours, and come back — a quirky round-trip that could also include staycations at the city’s hotels and limousine ferry rides, according to a report in the Straits Times.

Taiwanese airlines such as STARLUX, EVA, China Airlines, and Tigerair have already operated several.

ANA operated one with its A380 last month.

$780

What a disaster, not sure how many people are Aviation nuts to do this.

 

[jufonuk]

Fly into oblivion

 

[Cunth]

pay extra for woman with baby sitting next to you

 

[M1chl]

pay extra for woman with baby sitting next to you

Such an enhanced experience. Also bored with Flight sim, etc...

 

[Compsiox]

Sounds fucking awful. My god.

They've gotta try though I understand.

The only people who do this will be the ones who just hope it never lands.

 

[Stouffers]

Make the plane a convertible. It’ll be like a fun little ride.. until you hit 30,000 foots.

 

[M1chl]

Make the plane a convertible. It’ll be like a fun little ride.. until you hit 30,000 foots.

That's a real photo by the way.

 

[nush]

Awesome I'm IN!

 

[Husky]

Wow, I can't imagine there are people who would actually crave this. Wonder what exactly they're trying to experience on the flight.

 

[nush]

Wow, I can't imagine there are people who would actually crave this. Wonder what exactly they're trying to experience on the flight.

Imagine if you've never experienced flying, maybe you're a kid. The actual flying experience is pretty interesting even if there is no destination. If it was cheap enough sure.

 

[Stouffers]

Imagine if you've never experienced flying, maybe you're a kid. The actual flying experience is pretty interesting even if there is no destination. If it was cheap enough sure.

Why are you imagining he’s a kid?

 

[nush]

Why are you imagining he’s a kid?

He?

 

[Husky]

Imagine if you've never experienced flying, maybe you're a kid. The actual flying experience is pretty interesting even if there is no destination. If it was cheap enough sure.

when i was a kid i scared of flying
these are from my first flight, which turned out to not be very scary
i took a window seat so i could shoot video of the takeoff

i made em bluer cuz i liked it

 

[Catphish]

They should just do what I do...

Play Flight Simulator 2020, take off from your home airport, pick a destination, and fly there. When you arrive, strap on the VR headset, and Google Earth your way around town. Bonus if YouTube has walkaround videos of the town you just landed in.

Nerd as fuck, but fun

 

[OneBigPuss]

when i was a kid i scared of flying
these are from my first flight, which turned out to not be very scary
i took a window seat so i could shoot video of the takeoff

i made em bluer cuz i liked it

I see some flat textures in the first pic.

 

[Burger]

Yeah fuck this planet. Fuck it to death.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Does this include TSA groping?

 

[Thaedolus]

The flying part is the worst part of travel tho....what is wrong with people?

 

[Goro Majima]

Yeah I’m not a fan of flying so this sounds terrible to me. I especially hate the rocket ship feeling of takeoff but I’m usually fine when the plane levels out.

If I’m going to go through all that then I better be going somewhere fun or having to travel for work.

 

[nush]

Yeah I’m not a fan of flying so this sounds terrible to me. I especially hate the rocket ship feeling of takeoff but I’m usually fine when the plane levels out.

If I’m going to go through all that then I better be going somewhere fun or having to travel for work.

Me: Experienced long haul flyer encountering heavy turbulence.

 

[GAMETA]

Can Airbus pilots fly smaller planes?

Maybe they could offer local tourism flights, but I'm not sure the costs would meet demand to make it viable...

 

[HellforLeather]

Thank god someone thought of this! I was getting anxious without having toddlers screaming in my ear or having a big fatty insist on not putting the armrest down for...obvious reasons.

You get all the worst parts of a vacation and you end up right back in the same shit hole you were trying to leave! Where do I sign up!?

 

[ExpandKong]

I think the only people who like flying enough to actually consider this probably have their own planes that they fly themselves.

like who the fuck

 

[DESTROYA]

Well there goes the green new deal.

 

[MilkLizard]

As someone who actually works for an airline...this is fucking stupid. Like flying is the cool part about a vacation? JFC

 

[TheMan]

Sounds like a terrific waste of resources

 

[Aggressive Carrot]

Flights to nowhere you say? I hear purgatory is nice this time of year.

 

[FemdomFilmFan]

I don't fly to fucking fly! Nothing's more mind-numbingly boring than fucking flying! I fly to get somewhere!

 

[12Goblins]

Maybe I'd do a flight to random location if it was cheaper or something...but wtf is this? Flying is a terrible experience in coach..

 

[lock2k]

Do they have a turbulance DLC?

 

[navii]

Airlines would have to pay me. Lol, airlines think I fly with them because I enjoy their shitty service? Hahaha

 

[Shadowplay1979]

Or heres a crazy idea.....open up fucking international travel already. Its been half a year already...test before and after you get on the flights. You cant keep millions of peoples lives on hold or from seeing relatives.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Assembling to get those fly perk points lol

 

[Cleared_Hot]

As someone who flies once or twice a month cross country (sometimes international) for work, I can't think of a less desirable thing to waste money on.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Something Something global warming

 

[Kittehkraken]

A luxury flight to nowhere at Mach 2 - 60,000ft would be fun. Sadly, no such thing exists anymore.

 

[DeepEnigma]

That's code for the camps.

 

[lock2k]

A luxury flight to nowhere at Mach 2 - 60,000ft would be fun. Sadly, no such thing exists anymore.

Is that the Concorde?

 

[Kittehkraken]

Is that the Concorde?

Yup

 

[Mr Nash]

Sounds like a clever ploy to steal people's souls. Can't fool me, airline industry!

 

[DESTROYA]

Or we can all just do this and make believe we are flying without all the soul sucking truth about actually flying to a destination

This guy was ahead of the times

 

[BigBooper]

Do they include a return flight in the staycation package?

I'd enjoy pitching in with other passengers just to see them light a pit of jet fuel on fire.

 

[FemdomFilmFan]

Or we can all just do this and make believe we are flying without all the soul sucking truth about actually flying to a destination

This guy was ahead of the times

Or we can do this,




This seems much more fun.

 

[DESTROYA]

Or we can do this,




This seems much more fun.

I remember this show ! Yeah then you can fly around taking dumps on people freshly washed cars and heads

 

[Mobilemofo]

I'd rather play a game of aviation pop off. Where one passenger is armed with a nurf gun and shoots several passengers into unciousness.. Hmm..gonna think this through. The winner gets a fuckin Ford focus..

 

[bender]

 

[Happosai]

That's a real photo by the way.

I'm an aviation nut...yet I prefer co-piloting if it's just to run a few holding patterns.

The incident above was Aloha Airlines flight 243. Explosive decompression to the front aft passenger door after some square paneling cracked away. It was age related. Boeing and the NTSB discovered that the pictured plane was one of Boeing 's first 737s sold for regional Hawaiian flights. It was meant to have been retired years before this incident but was overnighted (I'm just rattling this off from memory). Only one died, a female flight attendant. The floor between the cargo and passengers nearly split and the pilots basically landed this manually. Awesome pilots but crap job of Boeing not retiring the plane decades before.

 

[M1chl]

I'm an aviation nut...yet I prefer co-piloting if it's just to run a few holding patterns.

The incident above was Aloha Airlines flight 243. Explosive decompression to the front aft passenger door after some square paneling cracked away. It was age related. Boeing and the NTSB discovered that the pictured plane was one of Boeing 's first 737s sold for regional Hawaiian flights. It was meant to have been retired years before this incident but was overnighted (I'm just rattling this off from memory). Only one died, a female flight attendant. The floor between the cargo and passengers nearly split and the pilots basically landed this manually. Awesome pilots but crap job of Boeing not retiring the plane decades before.

Another fan of Air Crash Investigation, I watched it few times on plane. Great shit, especially with Stephen Bogaert as narrator : )

Anyway I am having PPL licence myself, however I kind of lost track few years back about Aviation. Alcohol is shit.

 

[Punished Miku]

A luxury flight to nowhere at Mach 2 - 60,000ft would be fun. Sadly, no such thing exists anymore.

Yeah, there are actually ways to make flying itself a commercial product. I mean, flying through the air is still pretty remarkable. People still want window seats. People take helicopter rides to look around and then land where they started.

 

[Reptars Revenge]

Lol well if somebody needs one more mile to get in the grandmaster club before it expires