Pals Visit 30 Cities in 31 Days on All-You-Can-Fly Passes

Pals Visit 30 Cities in 31 Days on All-You-Can-Fly Passes

BUFFALO, NY (AP) -- Two friends are back on the ground in Buffalo after squeezing all they could out of an airline's all-you-can-fly passes.

Clark Dever and Joe DiNardo took full advantage of JetBlue's $599 special, which allowed travelers to take as many flights as they wanted in a month.

The pair said they visited 30 cities in 31 days and estimated they traveled more than 50,000 miles before finally touching down at Buffalo Niagara International Airport early Friday morning.

Both said it was the trip of a lifetime. For Dever the highlight was proposing to his girlfriend, who had flown to Phoenix to spend some time with him during the trip.

The two documented their coast-to-coast travels on a Web site: www.twelvehoursinacity.com.

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I guess they love being inside airports.

How much time did they have per city to 'visit?'

Two, maybe three hours?

spent a little more time in each exploring the area.

Too much of their time for that 31 days was wasted in airports. However, I don't fault them for doing it. I'm sure it was still a blast. Lol, they are probably the only two people in history to have done such a thing.

For the US and maybe for Canada. And maybe someday in Europe - though it would have easier if I had done it forty years ago when I planned to.

But these days I do not plan trips that involve flying. The concept of dealing with the security just pisses me off reading about it - confronted with it in person, I would not be able to keep my temper!

and ended up getting tons of corporate sponsorship to help them finance this.

And why? Because it was kinda gimmicky.

I don't think I'd want to do it myself, because I wouldn't want to spend all that time in airports either. But they must have spent the whole time feeling like kings--getting limos sent to them at airports, being offered the use of luxury boxes, constantly being interviewed by TV and radio and magazines and newspapers.

Yet at the end, I'm not sure from reading their blog whether they did all that much. Did they learn that much about the people and the cities? Did they really do that much out-of-the-way stuff? Or was it mainly a fratboy's dream of hitting every cool sightseeing spot, good restaurant or hot bar/nightclub in every city?

It was also a very bicoastal trip--maybe because that's how JetBlue flies, I don't know-- with the exception of a very few cities like Chicago, they pretty much skipped the Midwest.

you'd save a lot of money by booking 8-9 hour flights and not getting a hotel room.

Maybe that's why they did it that way.