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An alternate version from the 1960s would show taking 3-5 days on a bus to take that 5 hour flight.
Plus, some of y'all ain't never taken a 16 hour flight with a refuel stop at hour 12 and it shows.
When I was in the US Air Force, I returned to the US on a flight they call the Milk Run. There were layovers in Aviano, Madrid, and th Azores Islands (that I can remember, at least). This was over 30 years ago, but if the Milk Run still exists, I would not recommend it.
"Milk run" is a generic term for routes with many stops, we have one here too :)
I think the furthest I've flown direct is 14 hrs and they didn't refuel. But normally I'm doing a layover/transfer somewhere so the 14 hrs is usually closer to 20 for total travel time
Yeeah, the 16er was to Joburg from the States. There's nowhere to refuel between Ghana and SA, so if was a standard stop both ways.