24 hours and 30 minutes

24 hours and 50 minutes took us from the hotel to home in Berlin door-to-door. The flights were smoot, but nevertheless intresting. From Fukuoka to Haneda there are over 70 flights daily. JAL is using a 767 wide-body jet for this short flight. Our flight from Haneda to Helsinki was an interesting one. Since the Russian aerospace is closed for EU airlines we went the polar route. We took off at 10pm, total darkness. We flew east - north-east and used the tight corridor between Russia and Alaska, so it became daylight very fast. Then crossing the North Pole and flying south resulted in a night again.

After a couple of hours ot was daylight again (since we travelled east and north) went over the north pole and approached Scandinavia from the north landing in Helsinki after 12 hours and 30 mintues. FinnAir presented us with the following "diploma":

Nice marketing move.
Based on these calculations we were apx. 165.68 km from the North Pole.