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EHM-1242 Stef:
Good evening gentlemen,

Being one who normally tries to find the flights which no one has flown before (making me kind of a 'long hauler' automatically), how about some sort of VOC-tour?

'VOC', or 'Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie' was the name of the former dutch east indies company, back from our glory days (or as we reffer to it: our 'golden age') when nobody had ever even heard about, nor imagined, something like Brittania Rules the Waves... Better yet: we kicked their a..ses over and over again back then! Besides, the VOC being the world first official multinational!

So, back to the golden age and fly a more-or-less typical trading route of the VOC as a cargo flight! Envision something like:

leg 1. Amsterdam - Recife
leg 2. Recife - Cape Town
leg 3. Cape Town - Perth
leg 4. Perth - Surabaja
leg 5. Surabaja - Nagasaki
leg 6. Nagasaki - Singapore
leg 7. Singapore - Surabaja
leg 8. Surabaja - Cape Town
leg 9. Cape Town - Amsterdam

Didn't do much research, all by head, so still place for some refinements here. Also didn't check for leg feasabitilties. Above is just the rough track across the atlantic and indian ocean to and from, added to which are some former dutch colonies to visit (yes, Singapore was one of them as well once. Just for short time though. However, if we want to nag at EGLL being the largest hub... )

Idea perhaps??

Best regards,

Stef
EHM-1242

ps. another nowadays particularly infamous Dutch company from back then for obvious reasons was the Dutch West Indies Company, but i seriously doubt if anybody would want to 'burn their fingers' on suggesting couple of cargo flights from African west coast to the caribean... It's facts from history, but i don't want to be the one to suggest it!

EHM-1671 Ben:
Not bad, Stef. That's pretty intense flying right there but I'm sure there would be some crazy long-hauler (*cough* me ;D) out there willing to do it. I'm just wondering if it would be practical - so far, all of EuroHarmony's tours are short-legged; even the World Tour only has one long-haul. :s

EHM-1001 Robert:
Well, it does not need to be a tour. It could be simply a set of new flights, that simply not start/end at Schiphol like the normal flights. Although in this case, there would be no awards...only fun ;)

I do not know too much about the Dutch history and territories, but those long flights look very interesting. It would be good to know which airplane is capable for that route ;)

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