FROM THE LOG · JANUARY 21–FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Four Singapore Turns in Fourteen Days
91,298 miles. Eighteen sectors. A repeated route at the heart of the pursuit.
Across the Pacific, then back again
In my March 2024 Hemispheres answers, I described four back-to-back Singapore turns from Newark via San Francisco. The flights began with positioning from Denver on January 21 and ended back in Denver on February 3.
The flight log reconciles the sequence to 91,298 miles. The eight Pacific crossings were on Boeing 787-9s. Eight transcontinental sectors and two Denver positioning flights completed the itinerary.
The distance
Why it mattered
The pursuit was built from individual flights, but repetition gave it its shape. Here, the same connection and the same Pacific route formed a two-week rhythm: cross, return, and turn around again.
There were people within that pattern, too. In the contemporaneous interview, I recalled meeting members of the flying community in Singapore around the Coldplay concert.
From the record
The 91,298-mile total includes the positioning flights to and from Denver. It is the distance of this recorded sequence, rather than only the four Singapore round trips.
The first-person account comes from my March 2024 unpublished interview responses; the sector counts and distances come from the flight log.