The World Tour (by Contrail)

Introduction

The Contrail World Tour is an ongoing Infinite Flight initiative with the goal of completing flights to every country in the world, organised by continent flying east to west.

Every leg is logged and tracked; total distance flown, countries visited, landings recorded, and Earth circumnavigations accumulated along the way. Each phase will be documented in this thread as the tour progresses.


Structure

The tour is divided into phases by continent, completed in the following order:

  1. Oceania
  2. Asia
  3. Africa
  4. Europe
  5. South America
  6. North America & the Caribbean

Rules & Standards

All legs completed as part of the Contrail World Tour adhere to the following standards:

  • Real-world routes only — every leg must follow a route operated by a real-world airline or reflect a realistic city pair
  • Expert Server only — all flights must be conducted on Infinite Flight’s Expert Server
  • Full flights only — every leg must be flown in its entirety from pushback to gate arrival; no pattern work or partial flights count
  • Every flight must be logged — all legs are recorded in Contrail; unlogged flights do not count toward tour totals
  • Every flight must be reported — a reply will be posted in this thread for every completed leg with route, landing data, and updated statistics
  • One flight per country minimum — at least one flight must depart from or arrive into each country to mark it as visited
Metric Running Total
Countries Visited 14 / 195
Total Distance 7061nm
Earth Circumnavigations 0.33x
Legs Completed 12

Updated each phase, route legs will be announced by phases, in the form of continents.


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Track it here!

Phase 1 Commences! Here’s the routes I’ll be embarking on. Please reply if you’d like to be pinged in any.

From DEP ICAO To ARR ICAO Route Airline Aircraft Status
Auckland NZAA Sydney YSSY New Zealand → Australia Qantas B737 Landed!
Sydney YSSY Port Moresby AYPY Australia → Papua New Guinea Air Niugini B737 Landed!
Port Moresby AYPY Honiara AGGH Papua New Guinea → Solomon Isl. Solomon Airlines B737 Landed!
Honiara AGGH Port Vila NVVV Solomon Islands → Vanuatu Air Vanuatu ATR 72 (Dash 8) On Ground!
Port Vila NVVV Nadi NFFN Vanuatu → Fiji Fiji Airways B737 Pending
Nadi NFFN Funafuti NGFU Fiji → Tuvalu Fiji Airways B737 Pending
Funafuti NGFU Tarawa NGTA Tuvalu → Kiribati Fiji Airways B737 Pending
Tarawa NGTA Nauru ANYN Kiribati → Nauru Nauru Airlines B737 Pending
Nauru ANYN Majuro PKMJ Nauru → Marshall Islands Nauru Airlines B737 Pending
Majuro PKMJ Pohnpei PTPN Marshall Islands → Micronesia United Airlines B737 Pending
Pohnpei PTPN Koror PTRO Micronesia → Palau Nauru Airlines B737 Pending
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Track my flight here!

Off of AP+, time to land our first flight of our 195 leg journey!


Logged :white_check_mark:

Spawning in for the next! Will post pictures once climb to Papua New Guinea has commenced.

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Some pictures of arrival at YSSY! (Departure replay corrupted)

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Logged :white_check_mark:

Next stop: Solomon Islands!

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3/195 Countries completed!

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Logged :white_check_mark:

Time to head to Vanuatu!

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Some clips from the approach to AYPY. Stunning.

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Ikr bro, the approach is beautiful… Good luck on your world tour!

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Landed at NVVV. Departure to Fiji!

Beautiful Landing at Fiji. Time to boot up for Tuvalu :rocket:

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Tuvalu Landed :white_check_mark:

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Welcome to kiribati! Now booting up for our few final stretches, starting with a western hop to Nauru!


Welcome to Nauru! Now in the air for the Marshall Islands, our Oceania tour is coming to a close!

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Phase 2 is out: Asia! You may see the progress here with phases separated by sheets.

2 In 1 log! Marshall Islands was beautiful: I will definitely go there again!
Now on the final leg to Palau with the GOAT @Juless!

30 minutes to complete our first continent! After, taking the Philippines A321 for a spin, again with the GOAT @Juless!

Landed at the philippines! Tomorrow, we will start a new month with a new continent: Asia!