It’s the last day of the year, so it’s always fun to look back on your travels, right? Here’s my summary, and you can see it was kind of a boring year compared to some previous ones. How’d you do?
Miles: 34,202 (23,452 last year)
Segments: 26 (34)
New Aircraft: Embraer 170
New Airlines: Republic (operating as Frontier), Shuttle America (operating as United)
New Airports: Auckland
Most Common Aircraft: A320/A319 (6 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Frontier
Most Common Airport: LAX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Long Beach-Denver (3 times)
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In the first year where I actually flew a lot
Miles: 94,284 (last year: 38,992)
Segments: 150 (last year: 38)
New Aircraft: A319, B734, B738, B744, E175, E145, DC94, DC95, MD90
New Airlines: Freedom, Chautauqua, Shuttle America, SkyWest, Alaska, Compass
New Airports: 32 (Furthest from home was HKG)
Most Common Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-88 (31)
Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines (100)
Most Common Airport: Atlanta (32)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DAY-ATL (36)
Miles: 90,720
Segments: 85
New Aircraft: A321
New Airline: Frontier
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: B757
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: ATL
Most Common Non-Directional Route: WAS-ATL
Miles: 57,288 (last year: 33,087)
Segments: 34 (last year: 20)
New Aircraft: none (although I flew a DC-9 twice, and the time before was at least 10 years ago)
New Airlines: Cathay Pacific, Air Asia
New Airports: RGN, LHR
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 757 (6)
Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines (19)
Most Common Airport: Pittsburgh (13)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PIT-MSP and MSP-SEA (5 each)
Miles: 37,524
Segments: 14
New Aircraft: Airbus 380
New Airlines: Qantas
New Airports: AKL, ASP, AYQ, CNS, SYD
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737
Most Common Airline: Qantas, Southwest (5)
Most Common Airport: IAD
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IAD-MDW
Miles: 158391
Segments: 62
New Aircraft: Q400
New Airports: MEX, ZCL, PUW, ABQ, MSY, KIX, HNL, BOM
Most Common Aircraft: 757, 738
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: LAX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-DTW, LAX-SLC
Huh, and I thought I had my first year with a lot. Actually, I had a fair amount last year but this was the first year I was able to concentrate on an airline and get some status out of it.
Miles: 54920
Segments: 55
New Airport: SLC, PDX
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ 700
Home Airport: SAT
Most Common Other: LAX
Most Common Airline: Even split UA, CO, US (COFF)
And starting off the year finding out that UA cut my early AM SAT-LAX flight (boo) in favor of CO routes through IAH. And starting with two trips SAT-SFO and SAT-LAX-SFO-SAT.
Here’s mine:
Miles: 20,871 (13,129 last year)
Segments: 16 (14)
New Aircraft: Embraer 170 & 190
New Airlines: China Airlines
New Airports: Anchorage, Providence
Most Common Aircraft: Canadair CRJ
Most Common Airline: Delta and China Airlines
Most Common Airport: BUF
Most Common Non-Directional Route: JFK-BUF/BUF-JFK (2x each)
My miles went down after my job changed, and I am afraid I am a ‘one-year wonder’ with my status…
Last year miles: 38,909
This year miles: 21,025
Segments: 25
New Airlines: none
Most Common Airline: Air Canada / Air Canada Jazz
New Aircraft: none
Common Aircraft: A320 Family (A319 7 times)
Common Airports: YYZ, YYC
Common route: YYZ-YUL
Longest Route: YYC-YHZ (2334 mi)
Shortest Route: YVR-YYJ (39 mi)
New Airports: YYJ (Victoria), YEG (Edmonton), YXE (Saskatoon), YQR (Regina)
Hey Cranky, this was a really cool idea!
Miles: 58,011
Segments: 36
New Aircraft: B737-800, B717, ATR-72 (I try to avoid turboprops/RJs like the plague but had no choice on one route this year)
New Airlines: Hawaiian Airlines
New Airports: AMA, HNL, LGA, KOA, GOI (Goa, India)
Most Common Aircraft: MD80
Most Common Airline: AA
Most Common Airport: DFW
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Tie between DFW-ORD-DFW and DEL-HYD-DEL
Oops, forgot that I also flew US and hit CLT for the first time this year.
I need to track mine better like y’all:
Miles: 68,428
Legs: 72
Home: SYR
Airline: CO, UA. (Star Alliance) – 2 w/ Delta
Aircraft: ERJ 145 – Q200 close 2nd
New: B777
Most Frequent route: SYR – BHX (4 x’s)
Only domestic travel.
Miles: 221,360 (115124)
Segments: 144 (101)
Home: SFO
Airline: UAL
New Airline: CO
New Airport: MEM
New Aircraft: 737-900
Most Common Aircraft: 757/320
Most Common Non-directional Route: SFO – DEN
Miles: 54,634
Segments: 60
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Malaysia Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, AirAsia
New Airports: TPE, KUL, DPS, JOG, AUS
Most common aircraft: CRJ-200 (11 flights, UGH!)
Most common airline: Delta
Most common airport: DCA
Most common route: ATL-DCA (4 times)
Longest flight (distance): LAX-TPE (6,794 miles)
Shortest flight (distance): BDL-JFK (106 miles)
I don’t know if anyone’s interested, but here’s mine!
Miles 37,894 (35095)
Segments 28 (30)
New Aircraft Dash 8 Q400, Mad Dogs
New Airlines AA AB AS BE
New Airports PAP JFK MIA SOU DFW LAS SEA STL
Most Common Aircraft Airbus A321 (6 flights)
Most Common Airline LH
Most Common Airport FRA-HAM (10 flights)
This is the first year since 1988 that I have not flown a single mile! Would have flown a few times in December if it hadn’t been for the snow that manages to cripple the UK with slightest dusting! Will make up for it next year!
Miles 36,110
Segments: 35
New Aircraft: A318 (F9)
New Airlines: None
New Airports: KOA, OGG, OMA, PSG, WRG
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800
Most Common Airline AS
Most Common Airport: SEA
Miles: 15,645 (29,449 last year)
Segments: 17 (26 last year)
New Aircraft: E190
New Airlines: none
New Airports: RSW
Most Common Aircraft: 737
Most Common Airline: CO (41% by segments, 43% by miles)
Most Common Airport: EWR
Forgot route – I was all over the map this year, only had one route flown more than once; EWR-MCO, twice.
And I guess technically I had a new airline – first time I flew on Colgan. But I track by “marketing” airline, not lift providers.
Unemployment killed off my travel this year…actually, I’ve been down every year since 2006 (50,864 miles, 49 segments), although I was above 40k in ’07 and ’08.
Miles: 162,538
Segments: 183
New Aircraft: 747
New Airlines: JetBlue, Hawaiian, British Airways
New Airports: LIH, HNL, AUS, ABQ, PIB, SRQ, DAB, FLL, CPH
Most Common Regional Aircraft: CRJ200
Most Common Mainline Aircraft: MD80
Most Common Airline: Delta (27.3% of flying)
Most Common Airport: DCA
Most Common Route: DCA-DFW
Miles: ~63,673 including award flights (52,145 last year)
Segments: 27 (? last year)
New Aircraft: A340
New Airlines: Air France, Hawaiian Air
New Airports: CDG, KOA, MCO, MCI
Most Common Aircraft: A319/320 or E175 I believe they are just about equal
Most Common Airline: UA
Most Common Airport: DEN
Most Common Non-Directional Routing: DEN-YYZ (9 times!)
Maybe you should have all included how many times your flight was delayed, cancelled (one -L- or two?). I guess next year you’ll need to include how many times you were felt up by a TSA agent…..LOL
Miles: ~75,000
Segments: ~50
New Aircraft: 717
New Airlines: Air Tran, China Southern
New Airports: OKC,OMA,HKG,MAA,HSL
Most Common Aircraft: 737
Most Common Airline: either AS or DL
Most Common Airport: TYS
Most Common Non-Directional Route: TYS-ATL or FAI-ANC
Wow mine is nothing compared to everyone else. Mine is just vacations not for work!!
Miles:16,330 (13,076 last year)
Segments: 15
New Aircraft: Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-500
New Airlines: Airtran
New Airports: Madison (MSN)
Common Aircraft: A320 4 flights
Most Common Airline: Delta/USAirways Tied
Most Common Airport: ORD/PHX tied
Most Common Non-Directional Route: All the same 1 time each
Delayed 2 times 1 ORD-PHX snow storm night before plane needed to be deiced delayed 30 minutes and arrived early. 1 time ORD-EWR weather on east coast delayed 45 minutes
Felt up by TSA agent twice once at Madison and once at Sarasota/Bradenton
Miles: 15843
Segments: 24
New Aircraft: a318 (f9), dc940 (dl)
New Airlines: UA (as far as I can remember it’s new)
New Airports: DTW
Most Common Aircraft: crj-200
Most Common Airline: Skywest dba UA and DL
Most Common Airport: pdx
Most Common Non-Directional Route: cos-den
Miles: 153,695 DL & another 15K or so on other airlines
Segments: 72 DL & 12 on other
New Aircraft: I confess I do not know anything about the planes
New Airlines: Southwest
New Airports:LIS
Most Common Aircraft: Do not know
Most Common Airport: ATL
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ATL-ORD
Decelerated this year, largely thanks to getting married and having more excuses to stay at home. Also no travel for work.
Miles: 30,231 (44,297 last year)
Segments: 11 (18)
New Aircraft: None (sniff!)
New Airlines: OS
New Airports: MXP, VIE
Most Common Aircraft: 777 (3 flights)
Most Common Airline: 4-way tie between UA, US, NH and DL (2x each), but had one UX flight which would pull the consolidated UA brand group slightly ahead
Most Common Airport: NRT
Most Common Non-Directional Route: NRT-SPN – only pairing flown twice this year
marriage is a good thing….congrats and enjoy
I think I need to comment here less, and fly more.
I managed to have a really slow travel year. I spent most of my “vacations” hosting friends and family from other towns, something I’m not going to do for a while.
Miles: 1,356
Segments: 2
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None :-(
Most Common Aircraft: 737-400, although hit the jackpot and rode both the Salmon-Thirty-Salmon and the Spirit of Alaska Statehood planes.
Most Common Airline: Alaska Airlines
Most Common Airport: Tie between SEA and OAK
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SEA-OAK
I’m throwing in my Amtrak trips for the fun of it:
Miles: 1,356
Segments: 4
New Equipment: Talgo trainset
New Carrier: None, but I rubbed elbows with Via-Rail in Vancouver
New Stations: Vancouver, British Columbia
Most Common Equipment: Talgo trainset
Most Common Carrier: Amtrak
Most Common Station: SEA/VAC (Tie)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SEA-VAC
Most Common Source of Amtrak Points: Zipcar, with 1,981 points.
Heck. I dont record my train travel….i should of course..anyone else record it?
Amtrak: NYC-PHL-WAS-RIC/YVR-SEA-PDX
Great Southern: MEL-ADL
Countrylink: Mel-ABX-Yass/CBR-SYD/Wollongong-SYD
TranzRail: WLG-AKL/BHE-CHC
Vline: Geelong-MEL (and back -twice)/MEL-SHT (find that location!)/BXG-MEL
Miles 30,714
segments 14 or 16 dont rember
New Airlines Us Scarways I mean Airways dont ask
New Aircraft Boeing 757 with the plug door not the over wing one
New Airports KPHX PHX
Most Common Aircraft 757-200
Most Common Airline United
Most Common Airport ABQ,OGG
Most Common Trip OGG Thank you Family for living there
and Happy new year to the people who got statice with airlines
and happy new year in gen
US Scarways or Scareways.,..either one is a great descriptor!
Well, being 15, I don’t yer have the opportunity to fly a whole lot, but here’s this year.
Segments: 8 in 2 months
New airlines: American Eagle, Alaska, United (my first non-southwest flights were this year)
New airports: STL, RDU, BNA, DSM (this is my home airport but isn’t currently served by southwest, just airtran. Usually drive to MCI.)
Most common aircraft: 737-700 tied with 737-300 (2 segments each)
Most common airline: Southwest, 4 segments
Most common airports: DSM, MCI, RDU, SEA each involving 2 segments
New aircraft: ERJ-145, 737-900, 757-200, A319
This march: adding MSP, MIA, SDQ, first time with mainline American Airlines, adding new a/c 737-800, 767-300
Great idea, Cranky! It was a pretty interesting travel year for me.
Miles: 102,000
Segments: 67
New Aircraft: ATR 72, EMB 120, Cessna GC 208
New Airlines: Air China, Thai, Finnair, Czech Airlines, SAS, Go! Mokulele
New Airports: KOA, BWI, IAD, BUF, LGA, BKK, SIN, NRT, XIY, ARN, HEL, PRG (Pretty even spread between Domestic, Asia and Europe)
Most Common Aircraft: B757
Most Common Airline: United (sigh..)
Most Common Airport: PDX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-ORD (Oh how I hate ORD!)
BIS Miles: 173,735 (158,207 last year) – trending the wrong way!
Segments: 104 (80)
New Aircraft: Fokker 70, A332
New Airlines: Jet Airways, Turkish, KLM, Continental (!)
New Airports: YVR, CHS, BNA, IST, DEL, TPA, FAT, ICN, New HKG
Most Common Aircraft (by segments): B757 (20 flights)
Most Common Aircraft (by miles): B747 (40,310 miles in a 47)
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: SFO
Most Common Route (by segments): San Francisco – Seattle (18 flights)
Most Common Route (by miles): San Francisco – JFK
Miles: 62,019 (33,546 last year)
Segments: 19 (15)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Ryanair, Horizon
New Airports: Dublin (DUB), Flagstaff (FLG), Phuket (HKT)
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 777 (7 flights), A330 (6 flights)
Most Common Airline: Asiana (OZ – 6 times @ 33,000miles)
Most Common Airport: ICN
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ICN-LHR (5 times)
Longest flight: ICN – LAX (5,977)
Average flight: 3,264
Miles: 18,050 (21,485 last year)
Segments: 14 (16)
New Aircraft: Embraer 175, Boeing 777-200
New Airlines: Compass Airlines (for Delta Connection)
New Airports: Lexington, KY, Miami, Grand Cayman
Most Common Aircraft: 757 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: ATL & SMF
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Sacramento-Atlanta (4 times)
Miles: 7,758 (12,523 last year)
Segments: 6 (12 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A310
New Airlines: Sata Internacional
New Airports: Boston (I usually fly out of Providence), Ponta Delgada
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-700
Most Common Airline: Southwest Airlines (4)
Most Common Airport: Baltimore (4) Providence (4)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BWI-PVD (4)
How do you guys track this stuff? By hand or a website?
I track mine by hand in Excel, since I’m a bit of a control freak and excel addict. Although, I suspect that most people let their frequent flier program track this for them.
openflights.org
Here’s mine: http://openflights.org/user/robertol
I actually have an Access database. (Yeah, I know.) But I also have used Flight Memory in the past. Great stuff.
BTW, this has been a lot of fun seeing everyone’s travels this year.
I agree…fun and interesting…anyone totalling the miles up?
Love the idea Cranky (been tracking my miles too)
Miles: 49,367 Miles
Segments: 57
New Aircraft: B777-200
New Airlines: Virgin America (VX), Go! Mokulele (YV),
New Airports: LGB, SDF, ABQ,
Most Common Aircraft: Airbus A319, A320 (F9)
Most Common Airline: Frontier (F9)
Most Common Airport: DEN, SFO
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-SFO
**100% NRSB travel**
NRSB? Is that, National Radon Safety Board, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, New Republic Savings Bank, or Nottinghamshire Royal Society for the Blind?
Haha, no its “Non-Revenue Stand By”, but I like the many acronyms.
We have NRSA, Non-Revenue Space Available
Miles: 30,311
Segments: 34
New Aircraft: Boeing 763, 744
New Airlines: Republic (operating as Frontier), ASA
New Airports: PDX, DLH, OMA, ATL, DCA, BOS, BTV, SJU, YVR
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-200
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: DTW
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MBS-DTW and MBS-ORD
And check out flightmemory.com and openflights.org for ways to record flights.
Miles: 236,668
Segments: 97
New Aircraft: A380
New Airlines: Aeroflot, China Eastern, Open Skies
New Airports: Seychelles, Bremen
Most Common Aircraft: B767
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: JFK
Most Common Non-Directional Route: JFK – MAN
Miles: 43,000 (25,000 least year)
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Moscow (DME) (2x), BOS
Most Common Aircraft: A320
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: IAD, DEN
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IAD to DEN
The advantage (???????) of being in the Southern Hemisphere is that our travel distances mount up quickly.
Miles: 125,772
Kilometres: 202,410
Segments: 90
New Aircraft: None (although I had my second and third flights on the Airbus A380- My first had been with Singapore in December 2009, the second was with Qantas (pre grounding) and third Emirates (see my blog for details of the three experiences: http://mjtravlife.blogspot.com/2010/09/who-cares-what-they-fly-emirates-a380.html)
New Airlines: Lan and Emirates (both brilliant airlines)
New Airports: BHE (Blenheim, New Zealand), OOL (Coolangatta, Qld, Australia), RIC (Richmond, VA, USA), SJC (San Jose, CA, USA), TRG (Tauranga, New Zealand)
Most Common Aircraft: B737 (27 flights with 35.394 km/21 000 mi approx )
Aircraft with most miles: B747 (12 flights with 96.584 km/ 57 000 mi approx)
Most Common Airlines: Qantas, United, AirTran/Air New Zealand
Most Common Airports: SYD, MEL, AKL, LAX
Most Common Routes: SYD-MEL and MEL-SYD (11 times each)
Miles: 23696 (61256 in 2009)
Segments: 6 (30)
New Aircraft, Airlines: none
New Airport: NRT
Most Common Aircraft: 744 (2), 738 (2)
Most Common Airline: US (2), UA (2), AS (2)
Most Common Airport: LAX (5)
Most Common Non-directional Route: LAX-NRT (2), LAX-DCA (2)
Now my 2009 stats would have been more interesting, with 1 new aircraft (more if you count subtypes of 777), 2 new airlines, and 4 new airports. But that year was an outlier.
Miles: 249,853 (256,071 last year)
Segments: 132 (170)
New Aircraft: Cessna Caravan
New Airlines: Malev, Sounds Air
New Airports: ABJ, ACC, BZE, CUR, DAM, GCM, NAS, OTP, PCN, SJO, SOF, STT
Most Common Airline: Air NZ
Most Common Airport: AKL
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AKL-WLG
Miles: 29,647 (8,408 last year)
Segments: 19 (5)
New Aircraft: A319, A320, B738, CR7
New Airlines: Virgin Blue, Atlantic Southeast
New Airports: LAX, SYD, CNS, BNE, ORD, ATL
Most Common Aircraft: A320/B738 (3 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Delta/United (Tie)
Most Common Airport: SFO
Most Common Non-Directional Route: It’s a five-way tie, so I’ll leave you with DSM-ATL
Miles: 176,837
Segments: 86
New Aircraft: B777-300, A330, B717
New Airlines: TG, KB, CA, QK, LH, BA, MA, TK, EK, LA, KA, MX
New Airports: FRA, MSQ, ALA, IST, BUD, SKP, FRA, EZE, AEP, TUC, LPB, VVI, MIA, BKK, CGK, PNH, ULN, PEK, MID, MEX, PTY, CUN, YVR, DXB, NBO, PBH
Most Common Aircraft: B777 (all varient) and B757 (tied at 16 each)
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: JFK
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SFO-JFK (5)
Miles 56,750
Segments: 76
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
New Aircraft: CRJ-900 (DL Mesaba and Skywest), 737-900 AS SEA-FAI and return. A340-600 LH DEN-FRA
Most Common Airline:UA
Most Common Airport: COS and DEN (also most common route)
I’m going to do 36,000 miles next MONTH! (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Ayers Rock, LAX, AUS, Buenos Aires). I don’t want to know how many miles I flew last year!!!
How about asking how many times our bags were lost enroute? Last year was a record for me – FIVE times, including both ways on a trip to Budapest. But I got them all back eventually. Looking forward to seeing if they fixed the Qantas A-380 next month on the way back to LAX… With 400 pax on that plane, I’m glad I have Global Entry and can skip the queues!