{"id":1916,"date":"2024-01-20T04:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:58:43","slug":"long_haul_travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/long_haul_travel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old School Solution to Long-Haul Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love to travel, but I hate sitting on aeroplanes. It’s time to act more like a traveller and less like a tourist…<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_column_text css=””]This video demonstrates the advantages of breaking up a long journey by air. It looks at two options for travelling between New Zealand and India.<\/p>\n

The obvious solution would be to go to one of the usual websites (Google Flights or Skyscanner) and take their best recommendation. That would mean a cost of $677 and a journey time of almost 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The solution is to break up the journey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
From<\/th>To<\/th>Flight Time<\/th>Cost<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Auckland<\/td>Sydney<\/td>3 hr 35 min<\/td>$91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sydney<\/td>Bangkok<\/td>9 hr 50 min<\/td>$232<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bangkok<\/td>Kolkata<\/td>2 hr 30 min<\/td>$121<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td>$444<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

This not only saves $233 on flights, but more importantly provides an opportunity to break up the journey and avoid jet lag.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row thb_full_width=”true” box_shadow=”small-shadow” css=”.vc_custom_1582283169681{background-color: #f4efe8 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/T2NETmz8UXs” css=”” el_id=”video”][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1581113256709{background-color: #dddddd !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text animation=”animation left-to-right”]Go to YouTube if you would like to comment on this video:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″]\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/strong>https:\/\/youtu.be\/T2NETmz8UXs<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1581113499829{background-color: #dddddd !important;}”][vc_column_inner][vc_separator color=”orange” border_width=”2″ css_animation=”fadeIn”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner content_placement=”bottom” css=”.vc_custom_1581113191777{background-color: #dddddd !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text animation=”animation left-to-right”]Or, if you want to keep updated, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text animation=”animation right-to-left”]\"youtube<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] I love to travel, but I hate sitting on aeroplanes. It’s time to act more like a traveller and less like a tourist… [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_column_text css=””]This video demonstrates the advantages of breaking up a long journey by air. It looks at two options for travelling between New Zealand and India. The obvious solution…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sundry-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldschool.travel\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}