Flying to no where - people are crazy

[TheButcher]

Flying to no where, that's it people have really lost their friggin minds.

The whole point of not flying is to :
1. Not go into crowded airports
2. Not get into airplanes where the air is recirculated and there might be coronavirus carriers.

Why fly:
You fly to go on vacation, a business trip or whatever you want to do at your destination. Not to go around in the sky and come back to the same place lol.

Read it https://news.yahoo.com/flight-goes-nowh ... 12608.html

"In August, Nadzri Harif, a DJ at Kristal FM radio station in Brunei, set foot in an airport for the first time in six months. The experience, he said, was exhilarating. Sure, moving through Brunei International Airport was different, with masks, glass dividers and social-distancing protocols in place, but nothing could beat the anticipation of getting on a plane again.

His destination: nowhere.

Harif is one of thousands of people in Brunei, Taiwan, Japan and Australia who have started booking flights that start and end in the same place. Some airlines call these “scenic flights”; others are more direct, calling them “flights to nowhere.”

“I didn’t realize how much I’d missed traveling — missed flying — until the moment the captain’s voice came on the speaker with the welcome and safety announcement,” said Harif of his 85-minute experience on Royal Brunei Airlines. On its flight to nowhere, which the airline calls the “dine and fly” program, Royal Brunei serves local cuisine to passengers while flying over the country.

At a time when most people are stuck at home and unable to travel, and the global airline industry has been decimated by the pandemic, flights that take off and return to the airport a few hours later allow airlines to keep staff working. The practice also satisfies that itch to travel — even if it’s just being on a plane again. Although most people may think of flying as a means to an end, existing solely to get them from one place to the next, some say that it is an exciting part of the travel experience. For those people, flights to nowhere are the salve for a year in which just about all travel has been canceled and people have been fearful of airlines not enforcing social distancing and mask-wearing rules.

Royal Brunei has run five of these flights since mid-August, and since Brunei has had very few cases of the coronavirus, the airline is not requiring passengers to wear masks, but staff members are. Earlier in the month, the Taiwanese airline EVA Air filled all 309 seats on its Hello Kitty-themed A330 Dream jet for Father’s Day in Taiwan, and Japan’s All Nippon Airways had a Hawaiian-resort-themed, 90-minute-flight with 300 people on board.

On Thursday, Qantas announced a flight to nowhere over Australia. That flight sold out in 10 minutes."

[viking]

Waste of money imho

[bestfreeporn]

It has to be a popular event if so many airlines are jumping into the game, so people get their flying fetish out the way and airlines make some dough seems fair. Nothing wrong is there?

[gspotman]

A new way to kill time in during the pandemic , people want to get out and do things they used to do before the Coronavirus.

[ispdn]

Have money to burn and nothing better to do with your time is what it is

[Timdaman]

Have you ever been sky jumping, that would be a nice way to send an afternoon.

[shoopa]

Have you ever been sky jumping, that would be a nice way to send an afternoon.

No what is the fun in maybe dying if your chute dos not deploy.

[TheButcher]

Have you ever been sky jumping, that would be a nice way to send an afternoon.

No what is the fun in maybe dying if your chute dos not deploy.

You said it Shoopa.

[Emil]

I have more pressing issues this year than flying around for no reason

[Austin]

You know what will be a real trip if you re going to go up and come back ,sex on a plane!

[TheButcher]

You know what will be a real trip if you re going to go up and come back ,sex on a plane!

Nothing new, there is the "Mile High Club" for years

[wetnwild]

sex in a plane at 30,000 feet sounds exciting

[AussieSpeedoGuy]

Hey guys,

I wonder if people are using Frequent Flyer miles that are about to expire or refunds that are about to expire.

Dave

[monsta]

No harm in that some people are real crazy and go kill others, so not seeing any wrong here