World Record RTW award flight

El Ingeniero

Level 2 Member
Want to go around the world in world record time, on miles/points:
  • route west to east
  • no more than 4 legs
  • total distance 22,859 miles or longer
  • begins and ends at the same airport
  • route stays within 5 degrees of the antipodes
  • less than 52 hours, 34 minutes total time, from wheels leaving the ground to wheels touching down
Precise wording of the rules:
A circumnavigation crossing the equator must be made. It is not necessary to visit the exact antipodal points, but airports nearest them. For this record an allowance of 5° is permitted, so if the co-ordinates north and south are the same, the east plus that west equals 180°, then that north might be, for example, 45° and that south anything between 40° and 50°. Alternatively that north might be 51° and that south 53°, in which case that west plus that east can equal between 177° and 183°. Being in a plane which lands at the airport but not having to changes would not be acceptable.

Route for current best time was PVG-AKL-EZE-AMS-PVG. No longer possible to replicate as PVG-AKL-EZE gives you a very long stopover in AKL, and Air New Zealand has the only non-stops. PVG and EZE are nearly antipodes, great circle route for EZE-LHR goes very close to the antipode for AKL just off the Iberian peninsula.

*antipodal means exact opposite points on the planet
 
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bayguy

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Check One Mile at a time blog, Lucky wanted to do similar itinerary and commenters gave really good suggestions(with actual flights etc).
 

projectx

Level 2 Member
Not trying to be a jerk here so please don't take this the wrong way... why? Just to say you did it? Definitely not my cup of tea but if it's something to check off your bucket list, good luck!
 

El Ingeniero

Level 2 Member
Not trying to be a jerk here so please don't take this the wrong way... why? Just to say you did it? Definitely not my cup of tea but if it's something to check off your bucket list, good luck!
To claim a spot in the record books. Something interesting to do. A trip to look forward to.
 
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