I got about five of those little bags of peanuts.
“ My longest flight was a nonstop from New York to Hawaii”
As a young E4 I flew from St Louis to Seoul Korea. We landed in Oakland and Anchorage and Tokyo to pick up and drop off passengers but never got off the plane. I’m not sure about total time but it felt like 2 days.
Made that run many times but from Houston to LA then to Sydney or Melbourne then on to Perth. No directs from Houston to at that time. Often went from East to West and then the other way just to see what gave the worse jet lag and to say I’d done it. Likewise went back through London going home just to say I’d been around the world.
The worst layover was to deplane in Seoul or Singapore. I was always exhausted when we got there. Seoul was not in good shape, threadbare in those days. I fell asleep one time and just about missed the plane. My good Old Timer knife fell out of a pocket and I didn’t have time to go back and get it.
You get acquainted with the flight crew, go up and down the stairs a few hundred times and wear on their patience while trying to keep your blood flowing, never understood how the other passengers could make it just sitting. Read two Clancy novels or Ludlum or something like that, draw and think about gardening or building something, peck on the computer a lot and pretend to get something done.
I just never did well being confined, ditto with school and work sitting still. I have to have zero distractions to focus. Sounds a little like AADD doesn’t it? I either multi-task or immerse in just one thing.
I did JFK-Johannesberg (18.5 hours) in 2000.
Certainly makes that West Coast hop seem easy.
They just started JFK-New Zealand, and JFK-Sydney is in the works.