Topic of the Week: 2011 Flying Summary

Miscellaneous

The year is just about done for, so it’s time to look at how much flying we all did. My two trips across the pond helped to offset the lack of flying toward the end of the year. What did your year look like?

Miles: 38,310 (34,202 last year)
Segments: 26 (26)
New Aircraft: Bombardier Q400
New Airlines: Allegiant, Spirit
New Airports: Kelowna (BC), London/City, Shannon
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (7 flights)
Most Common Airline: US Airways/JetBlue (5 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Long Beach (6 dep/3 arr)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Long Beach – Phoenix (3)

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70 comments on “Topic of the Week: 2011 Flying Summary

    1. That means that you flew it either way. So I didn’t fly Long Beach – Phoenix 3 times, but instead I flew it twice and Phoenix – Long Beach once. But since I’m calling it a non-directional route, I combine them into one.

  1. Miles: 16,965 (20,937 last year)
    Segments: 21 (26)
    New Aircraft: none
    New Airlines: Horizon, Alaska
    New Airports: Kelowna, Spokane, Seattle
    Most Common Aircraft: tie – 5 each Q400 and 737(all varients)
    Most Common Airline: Air Canada (7 segments (mainline))
    Most Common Airport: Calgary – 5 Dep, 4 Arr
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Toronto – Halifax (3) (2x YTZ, 1x YYZ)
    Longest Flight – YUL-YYC 1867 mi
    Shortest Flight – GEG-SEA 223 mi

  2. YYZ-YHZ(A320)YHZ-YYZ (767)(ACA)
    SYR-JFK(A320)JFK-MCO(A320)MCO-SYR(A320)(JBU)
    YGK-YYZ(DH8)(JZA)YYZ-YYC(A320)YYC-YYZ(A321)(ACA)YYZ-YGK(DH8)(JZA)
    SYR-JFK(E190)JFK-FLL(A320)FLL-JFK(A320)JFK-SYR(A320) (JBU)
    YGK-YYZ(DH8)(JZA)YYZ-YLW(E190)(ACA)YLW-YVR(DH8)(JZA)YVR-YYZ(A321)(ACA) YYZ-YGK(DH8)(JZA)
    YOW-YHZ(E190)(ACA)YHZ-YOW(737) (WJA)
    YYZ-LHR(777)(ACA)LHR-GVA(RJ85)(SWR)GVA-LHR(A319)(SWR)LHR-YYZ(767)(ACA)
    YTZ-YHZ(Q400)YHZ-YTZ(Q400)(POE)

  3. Miles: 80907
    Segments: 23
    New Aircraft: Airbus 340-500
    New Airlines: Air Asia; Asiana; Bangkok Airways; Silkair; Singapore;
    New Airports: Casablanca; Singapore Changi; Yangon, Myanmar; Seoul; Phuket; Krabi, Thailand
    Most Common Aircraft: A319/320 (7 flights) (same as Cranky!)
    Most Common Airline: Air France (7 segments)
    Most Common Airport: JFK
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: New York – Paris

  4. Miles: 126,815
    Segments: 71
    New Aircraft: Airbus 340-500 330-300/200 767-300/300ER Embraer 120 turboprop
    New Airlines: Airasia , Thai airways
    New Airports: Bangkok [Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Intl], TH
    Minneapolis [Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl/Wold-Chamberlain], MN, US
    Boston [General Edward Lawrence Logan Intl], MA, US
    Reno [Reno/Tahoe Intl], NV, US
    New York [John F Kennedy Intl], NY, US
    Zürich [Zürich-Kloten], CH
    Atlanta [Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta Intl], GA, US
    Elko [Elko Regional], NV, US
    Seattle [Seattle-Tacoma Intl], WA, US
    Detroit (Romulus) [Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport], MI, US
    Washington [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport], DC, US
    Kuala Lumpur (Sepang) [Intl], Selangor, MY

    Most Common Aircraft: unknown
    Most Common Airline: Delta airlines
    Most Common Airport: SLC (Home)

    http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=NRT-BKKPDX-NRTSLC-PDXMSP-SLCBOS-MSPMSP-BOSSLC-MSPLAS-SLCSLC-LASSFO-SLCSLC-OAKRNO-SLCSLC-RNOJFK-SLCZRH-JFKATL-ZRHSLC-ATLLAS-SLCSLC-LASEKO-SLCSLC-EKOLAS-SLCSLC-LASNRT-MSPMSP-SLCBKK-NRTNRT-BKKSLC-NRTSFO-SLCSLC-SFONRT-SLCBKK-NRTNRT-BKKSEA-NRTSLC-SEAMSP-SLCSEA-MSPSLC-SEANRT-SFOSFO-SLCBKK-NRTNRT-BKKDTW-NRTSLC-DTWSLC-PHXATL-SLCDCA-ATLJFK-DCALAS-JFKSLC-LASLAS-SLCSLC-LASNRT-LAXLAX-SLCSIN-NRTSFO-LAXSLC-SFOLAS-SLCLAS-SLCSLC-LASRNO-SLCSLC-RNObkk-nrtnrt-mspmsp-sfosfo-slclax-bkkbkk-pnhpnh-kulkul-sin&PM=b%3Adisc7%2B%22%25U%2212&MS=wls&DU=mi

  5. I’m totally thrilled to see so many others who are as obsessive about documenting every flight flown as I am.
    Miles: 104,265
    Segments: 26
    New Aircraft: A380
    New Airlines: Canadian North, Air Greenland, Air New Zealand, LAN
    New Airports: Auckland, New Zealand; Christchurch, New Zealand; Hanga Roa, Easter Island; Iqaluit, Nunauvt; Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador; Kangerlussuaq, Greenland; Papeete, Tahiti; Santiago, Chile; St. John’s, Newfoundland
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 (8 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Air Canada (14 segments)
    Most Common Airport: YUL
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Montréal – Paris

  6. Miles: 33,158 (20,871 last year)
    Segments: 17
    New aircraft: none (all repeats)
    New airlines: Air Philippines, Cebu Pacific Air
    New Airports: Toronto, Santiago de Chile, Roxas City, Iloilo, Mexico City
    Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 767 (5 flights)
    Most Common Airline: United Airlines (4 flights)
    Most Common Airport: A 5-way tie between Buffalo, Chicago-O’Hare, Tokyo-Narita, New York-JFK, and Manila (4 flights each)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: BUF-ORD-NRT-MNL (just one round-trip; all my other flights were just done once)

  7. Forget airplanes, I still want to know where the flying cars we were to have by now are and how come we aren’t flying to the moon on vacation yet :-)

    Happy New Year’s everyone

  8. Miles: 39,561
    Segments: 35
    New Aircraft: Bombardier Q400
    New Airlines: Horizon
    New Airports: Montreal (YUL), Portland (PDX)
    Most Common Aircraft: 737
    Most Common Airline: Delta/Alaska (23 segments total)
    Most Common Airport: Seattle (SEA)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: SEA-STL

  9. Miles: 114,632 (72,470 last year)
    Segments: 71 (54)
    New Aircraft: None
    New Airlines: Cathay Pacific, ANA
    New Airports: Tokyo (NRT), Hong Kong (HKG), Manila (MNL)
    Most Common Aircraft: 737 (500/700/800/900)
    Most Common Airline: Continental
    Most Common Airport: Salt Lake City (SLC)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Salt Lake City – Houston

  10. I’m not as obsessive with recording flights, but its still fun stuff (particularly when I go to India)

    Approx 14 segments – 4 DL, 2 WN, 4 UA, 2 AA, 2 US
    New types: E175, 735
    New airports: IAH, BUR, DFW (stayed on plane though)

    Have a great new year everyone!

  11. Miles: 37,300
    Segments: 35
    New Aircraft: 767-400
    New Airlines: Vueling, Continental, Virgin America
    New Airports: MAD, IAH, BCN, CDG, RDM
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 (7 segments)
    Most Common Airline: Skywest (11 segments)
    Most Common Airport: COS
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: cos-den (4)

  12. Miles: 22,410 (18,050 last year)
    Segments: 23 (14)
    New Aircraft: Q400, Cessna Caravan, E190, BAC 1-11, MD-90
    New Airlines: Horizon, Alaska, Pacific Wings, Mokulele, Air Wisconsin
    New Airports: San Jose, Orange County, Philadelphia, Dallas-Love
    Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-200 (4 flights)
    Most Common Airline: US Airways (6 segments)
    Most Common Airport: Sacramento (7 dep/6 arr)

  13. In Miles 12,157
    In Kilometer 19,564
    Earth Circumnavigation 0.49 x
    Distance to the Moon 0.051 x
    Distance to the Sun 0.0001 x

    Hours 29:51
    Days 1.2
    Weeks 0.2
    Months 0.04
    Years 0.003

    All 16
    Domestic 16
    Intra-Continental 0
    Intercontinental 0
    Other flights 0

    Longest Flight (distance): 1,852 mi, 4:01 h, San Francisco (International) – Chicago (Midway), 09-23-2011
    Longest Flight (duration): 4:01 h, 1,852 mi, San Francisco (International) – Chicago (Midway), 09-23-2011
    Shortest Flight (distance): 228 mi, 0:34 h, Chicago (Midway) – Detroit (Metropolitan Wayne County), 09-23-2011
    Shortest Flight (duration): 0:34 h, 228 mi, Chicago (Midway) – Detroit (Metropolitan Wayne County), 09-23-2011
    Fastest Flight: 492 mi/h, 1,641 mi, 3:20 h, Oakland (International) – Houston (William P. Hobby), 01-23-2011
    Slowest Flight: 263 mi/h, 372 mi, 1:25 h, San Francisco (International) – Santa Ana (John Wayne), 02-17-2011
    Average Flight: 760 mi, 1:52 h

    http://my.flightmemory.com/TheYeti

  14. Miles: 44,778
    Segments: 25
    New Aircraft: Air New Zealand 777-300; Air New Zealand Q300; Hawaiian A330-200
    New Airlines: Air New Zealand, Continental
    New Airports: DTW (Detroit); AKL (Auckland, NZ); ROT (Rotorua, NZ); WLG (Wellington, NZ)
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 (9)
    Most Common Airline: United (10 segments)
    Most Common Airport: LAX (7 departures, 7 arrivals)
    Longest Flight – LAX-AKL, 6,504 miles
    Shortest Flight – HNL-OGG, 100 miles

  15. Miles: 30,304
    Segments: 16
    New Aircraft: Embraer E-170
    New Airlines: easyJet, Republic
    New Airports: Geneva (GVA), Nantes, France (NTE), San Jose, CA (SJC), Rome (FCO)
    Most Common Aircraft: A319, B738 (4 flights each)
    Most Common Airline: United (not including Continental) (8 segments)
    Most Common Airport: Washington Dulles (IAD) (3 dep/2 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: 5 way tie

  16. Miles: 79,596 (36,110 last year)
    Segments: 53 (35)
    New Aircraft: A380, CRJ-900, EMB-175, A321
    New Airlines: Hawaiian, Qantas, Airtran
    New Airports: OGG, HNL, KOA, IND, CLT, PHL, ILM, SYD, DCA, YYC, BLI
    Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (13 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Alaska (21 segments)
    Most Common Airport: SEA (16 dep/15 arr)

  17. Miles: 52,359
    Segments: 46
    New Aircraft: CRJ-200, A320 (?)
    New Airlines: Lufthansa
    New Airports: FRA, MAD, YYZ, ABQ, SMF
    Most Common Aircraft: ???
    Most Common Airline: Continental (40 segments)
    Most Common Airport: IAH (22 dep/21 arr)

  18. Miles: 7149
    Segments: 12
    New Aircraft: 737-700
    New Airline: Pinnacle
    New Airport: DTW
    Most Common Airlines: AirTran (4), Southwest (4), Delta (3), Pinnacle (1)
    Most Common Aircraft: 717-200
    Most Common Airport: STL (3 Departures, 3 Arrivals) Tie With ATL
    Routings: STL-DTW-RIC-ATL-STL, STL-ATL-DCA-ATL-STL, STL-DEN-LAS-LAX-STL (STL-DEN-LAS direct, no change of planes)
    Best Flight: WN: LAX-STL, smooth as silk, 25 minutes early on arrival
    Worst Flight: Pinnacle DTW-RIC. No fault of the airline however, I traded my window seat so two sisters who hadn’t seen each other for a few years could sit next to each other, ended up sitting in an aisle next to some stuck-up woman wearing WAY too much nasty perfume.

  19. It’s amazing what a new position will do to one’s flying. However I already have almost 50% of my 2011 miles booked for just Jan/Feb of 2012. Now we’ll see if it drops off or not.

    Miles: 21,884 (63,373 last year)
    Segments: 15 (27)
    New Aircraft: MD-11 (Tail PH-KCG; I actually took an unnecessary trip to fly this model aircraft!)
    New Airlines: KLM
    New Airports: Greensboro (GSO)
    Most Common Aircraft: A320
    Most Common Airline: Delta
    Most Common Airport: DEN (5 dep/5 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-SFO (4)

  20. Miles: 54,215
    Segments: 65
    New Aircraft: None
    New Airlines: None
    New Airports: MAD, PBI, SJC, DEN, FAY, FLO
    Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-200 (Unfortunately)
    Most Common Airline: USAirways and Express (33)
    Most Common Airport: DCA
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DCA-Knoxville (4)

    Stats conveniently compiled for me at: http://goo.gl/WjiJk

  21. Miles: 148,496 (108,178 last year)
    Segments: 90 (64)
    New Aircraft: A380, 777-300
    New Airlines: AirTran, Batavia, AeroMexico, Thai, JetBlue, Garuda, AirAsia, Finnish
    New Airports: SIN, PEK, BKK, CGK, JOG, MES, BTH, NRT, HKG, HEL, CDG, CPH, YYZ, YOW, KRK, GVA,
    Most Common Aircraft: A319 (13 flights)
    Most Common Airline: United (40 segments)
    Most Common Airport: ORD (19 dep+arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DCA-ORD (7)

  22. Number of flights 93
    Flown distance 202,037 km
    125,540 miles
    Flight time 13d 2h 0min

    AIRBUS A320-200 26

    AIRBUS A330-300 22

    AVRO RJ100 AVROLINER 17

    AIRBUS A319-100 15

    Other aircraft types 4
    BOEING 737-800 3

    BOEING 747-400 2

    AIRBUS A321 1

    BOEING 737-300 1

    BOEING 737-500 1

    Swiss 80
    Lufthansa 6
    Brussels Airlines 3
    United and United Express 2
    Jet Airways 1
    Austrian Airlines 1

    Airports Number
    Zurich (ZRH) 42
    Brussels – Airport (BRU) 15
    New York – JFK International, NY (JFK) 11
    Amsterdam – Schiphol (AMS) 10
    Frankfurt/Main International (FRA) 4
    Vienna International (VIE) 4
    Denver – International, CO (DEN) 2
    Boise, ID (BOI) 1
    Genève – Geneva-Cointrin Airport (GVA) 1
    London Heathrow (LHR) 1

  23. Miles: 75,976
    Segments: 46
    New Aircraft: Airbus A330
    New Airlines: None
    New Airports: Albany (ALB), Austin (AUS)
    Most Common Aircraft: A320
    Most Common Airline: US Airways/jetBlue Airways
    Most Common Airport: LGB (Home Airport) (17 dep/14 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: LGB-PHX (10)

  24. This non rev king barely flew, a couple short hops to SAN and OAK a RT to BWI, one trip to OGG and one to LIH.

    But, I did fill in my Boeing card by getting on a 707 (KC-135R) PHX-ABQ-Andrews AFB R/T.

    I miss the days of getting the rare birds on my list, L1011, 747SP, Tu134, Tu135, IL 62M, Fokker F50, F70, F28, F100, MD-11,DC-3. Had a chance at a YS-11, but the airline was so dodgy I flew Lao Aviation instead..

    Only tough ones now for me are DC 4,6,7,8, 747-100 -SR, Yak 40

    1. Seems the only way to get the rare birds anymore is to fly those dodgy airlines in other countries. I guess it’s all a risk reward question, huh?

      1. Phuket Airlines was so bad that the Laotian Airline looked better. They also had several 747-100’s as well, but, it was a miracle there was no crash.

  25. Miles: 47,800 (28,000 last year)
    Segments: 21
    New Aircraft: n/a
    New Airlines: n/a
    New Airports: HKG, FAO
    Most Common Aircraft: A380, 772 (4 flights)
    Most Common Airline: UA/CO
    Most Common Airport: LHR

    Lots for me, anyway – zero domestic (on this tiny island).

  26. Miles: 143,701
    Segments: 89
    New Aircraft: None
    New Airlines: Hainan, Royal Jordanian, Oman Air
    New Airports: Baiyun (Guangzhou), Bismarck, Indianapolis, Muscat
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 (12 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Delta (21 segments)
    Most Common Airport: Seattle-Tacoma
    Most Common Non-Directional Route:
    Longest Flight: HKG-EWR 8,060 mi
    Shortest Flight: BAH-DOH 90 mi

  27. Miles: 24,727
    Segments: 43
    New Aircraft: ERJ 145, ERJ 170, ERJ 190, B757-200, MD-80, MD-90
    New Airlines: Frontier
    New Airports: BOS, CMH, SEA, MCI, MSP, YYC, SLC,
    Most Common Aircraft: 737
    Most Common Airline: Southwest (29)
    Most Common Airport: MCI (16)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DAL-AUS (8 Flights)

  28. Miles: 69,953
    Segments: 27
    New Aircraft: A380
    New Airlines: Bangkok Airways, Emirates, ANA
    New Airports: REP (Siem Reap), PEN (Penang)
    Most Common Aircraft: B777 (9 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Cathay Pacific, Delta (8 each)
    Most Common Airport: Bangkok
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: BKK-HKG, HKG-YVR, YVR-JFK, PIT-MSP, MSP-SEA (2 each!)
    Longest Flight: JFK-HKG 8,068 mi
    Shortest Flight: IAD-PIT 183 mi

  29. Miles: 175000 in 2011 (>1MM lifetime)
    Segments: 53
    New Airlines: Spicejet
    New Airports: PEK, NRT, HKG
    Most Common Aircraft: B777
    Most Common Airline: DL (157k MQM)
    Most Common Airport: CMH
    Longest Flight: DTW-HKG
    Shortest Flight: CMH-DTW

  30. I apologize to everyone who didn’t have their comments go live right away today. As you can imagine, my spam filter is working overtime since a lot of these comments with their aircraft types, airport codes, and city pairs look like spam. I’ve been clearing them periodically throughout the day, but if you see anything that didn’t make it, just email cf@crankyflier.com.

  31. Miles: 49,491 (30,261 last year)
    Segments: 48
    New Aircraft: Boeing 717, 777, ATR-72, Bombardier Q200
    New Airlines: Air New Zealand, AirTran, Allegiant, Continental, Sun Country
    New Airports: AKL, ANC, CHC, CLE, GEG, IAD, IAH, SAT, SFB, SLC, SMF, SYD, XNA, ZQN
    Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-200
    Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines (32 segments)
    Most Common Airport: DTW
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DTW-MBS

  32. My flying for last year was pretty pathetic.. Hopefully next year is more interesting.. (I’ll be getting on a Q400 for sure!)

    Miles: 1,342 (1,356 last year)
    Segments: 2 (2 last year)
    New Aircraft: None :-(
    New Airlines: None :-(
    New Airports: None :-(
    Most Common Aircraft: B737
    Most Common Airline: Alaska Airlines (2 segments)
    Most Common Airport: OAK and SEA tied (once each)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Oakland – Seattle

    I’ll also through my Train travel in, because I’m non-conformist like that:
    Miles: 1374 (628 last year)
    Segments: 2 (4 last year)
    New Train Lines: None :-(
    New Train Depots: Portland, OR
    Most Common train line: Amtrak (2 segments)
    Most Common Train Depot: PDX and SEA tied (once each)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Portland – Seattle

  33. Miles: 21,916
    Segments: 11 (obviously not much on this forum)
    New Aircraft: none
    New Airlines: none
    New Airports: none
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 & 757 @ 3 (flew every boring plane this year)
    Most Common Airline: United @ 5
    Most Common Airport: JFK & SEA @ 6
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: JFK-SEA @ 4
    Longest Flight: JFK-LAX, 2,468mi
    Shortest Flight: JFK->IAD, 227mi

  34. Miles: 198,567 (162, 937 last year)
    Segments: 187 (184)
    New Aircraft: None
    New Airlines: Qantas
    New Airports: Sydney (SYD), Melbourne (MEL), Brisbane (BNE), Cairns (CNS), Fresno (FAT), Indianapolis (IND), Columbus (CMH), Tallahassee (TLH), Tyler (TYR), Akron/Canton (CHK)
    Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737 (39 flights)
    Most Common Airline: American (62 segments)
    Most Common Airport: DCA
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DCA-DFW & DCA-ORD (14)

  35. The one new thing was winning a flight on the Boeing 40C at the Airliners International show in Portland. I didn’t include this flight in the mileage statistic since it took off and landed at the same airport and I don’t know the actual number of miles we flew. If anyone is interested, I uploaded video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDw4DFu_fl8

    Miles: 19,104 (13,953 last year)
    Segments: 14 (9)
    New Aircraft: Boeing 40C
    New Airlines: Virgin America
    New Airports: Vancouver, Washington – Pearson Field (VUO)
    Most Common Aircraft: ERJ-140, 737-800, A320, 737-400 (2 segments each)
    Most Common Airline: United (3 segments, but only by including a former CO flight on November 30)
    Most Common Airport: San Diego (4 dep/4 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Diego – San Francisco (3)

  36. It was a lame year for me, unfortunately. I flew more but shorter distances as my flights to India were replaced by short hops like DFW-STL.

    Miles: 16,808
    Segments: 30
    New aircraft: None
    New airlines: None
    New airports: AUS, CLE, LIT
    Most common aircraft: MD80
    Most common airline: AA
    Most common airport: DFW (home airport); STL (most frequently visited)
    Most common route: DFW-STL
    Most bizarre routing: HOU-DAL-LIT and back. Why? I live in Dallas, but was in Houston on business when I had to fly to Little Rock. So I ended up hopping on a WN flight, resulting in being a connecting passenger in DAL, my home town.

  37. Miles: 154,636
    Segments: 151
    New Airlines: Alaska, US Air, Air India, LAN, JetStar
    New Airports (INTL): NRT, KIX, ICN, SIN, LIM, CUZ, CDG, KWI, DXB, AMD, HYD, MAA.
    Most Common Aircraft: CRJ (53)
    Most Common Airline: Delta (97)
    Most Common Airport: SLC (75)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Long Beach ? Phoenix (3)

  38. Miles: 104,097 (94,284 last year)
    Segments: 172 (150)
    New Aircraft: Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, Embraer 170, Boeing 767-400ER, Airbus A321-200, Boeing 757-300, Saab 340B
    New Airlines: Republic Airlines, US Airways, Air Wisconsin Airlines, ExpressJet, PSA Airlines (all in the month of February too)
    New Airports: JAC, SGU (week before it closed), ABQ, CMH, BZN, IAH, HDN, DAL, RDU, FLL, TLH, SNA, SAV, BHM, JAX, GRB, INL, BUF, CWA, RHI, OMA, ESC, IAD, HIB, AUS
    Most Common Aircraft: MD-88 (46 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines (102 segments each)
    Most Common Airport: Atlanta (34 RT, my home airport DAY had 32 dep)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: DAY-ATL (34)
    Longest Route: JFK-LAX
    Shortest Route: CWA-RHI (result of diversion)

  39. Miles: 86,968 (62,019 last year)
    Segments: 29 (19)
    New Aircraft: None
    New Airlines: SAS, FLybe
    New Airports: Houston (IAH), Bremen (BRE), Hamburg (Ham), Chambery (CMF), Ulsan, (USN)
    Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 777-200 (10 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Asiana (14 segments)
    Most Common Airports: Seoul (ICN) (7 dep/7 arr), LHR (6 dep/7 arr),
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: ICN – LHR (9)

  40. Miles: 170,828 (173,725 last year)
    Segments: 91 (104)
    New Aircraft: none
    New Airlines: TAM, Emirates
    New Airports: DTW, CLE, MSP, DXB, PSA, BLQ
    Most Common Aircraft: B757 (22 flights)
    Most Common Airline: United (49 segments)
    Most Common Airport: SFO (64 flights)
    Most Common Non-Directional Routes: SFO?SEA (17) / SFO-JFK/EWR (15)
    Longest Flight: FRA-LAX, 5,791mi

    http://openflights.org/user/robertol

    Shortest Flight: SFO-FAT, 157mi

  41. Hmm… I had one flight with an unscheduled fuel stop; does it count as one segment or two? The numbers in square brackets count it as two.

    Miles: 33054 [33086]
    Segments: 14 [15]
    New Aircraft: Boeing 717
    New Airlines: Virgin America, AirTran, jetBlue, Mesa
    New Airports: West Palm Beach (PBI), Portland OR (PDX), Phoenix (PHX), Springfield-Branson (SGF)
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 (3 flights) [MD-80 (3)]
    Most Common Airline: AirTran, jetBlue, El Al, Allegiant (2 segments each) [Allegiant 3]
    Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (3 dep/4 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Los Angeles–Tel Aviv (2), Los Angeles–Springfield-Branson (2 [1])

  42. Miles: 26,318 (26,293 last year)
    Segments: 8 (9)
    New Aircraft: B757-300
    New Airlines: None
    New Airports: SFO
    Most Common Aircraft: B757-200 (3 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines (8 segments)
    Most Common Airport: ATL (3 dep/3 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: FRA ? ATL (3)

  43. Miles 170,000
    New Airlines LH, Asiana
    New Airports: Guangzou, Seoul, Springfiled MO, GVA, FRA
    Longest flight: HKG SFO
    Shortest flight Roanoke CLT

  44. Miles: 151,286
    Segments: 91
    New Aircraft: ATR-72
    New Airlines: ANA, Garuda Indonesia, Jetstar Pacific, Nok Air, Air Mandalay, Firefly, Swiss, Alaska
    New Airports: Jakarta (CGK), Hanoi (HAN), Danang (DAD), Saigon (SGN), Chiang Mai (CNX), Mae Hong Son (HGN), Yangon (RGN), Heho (HEH), Bagan (BPE), Hat Yai (HDY), Langkawi (LGK), Kuala Lumpur Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB), Kuala Lumpur International (KUL), Geneva (GVA), Rio de Janeiro Galeao (GIG)
    Most Common Aircraft: A320 (some data missing-at least 26 flights)
    Most Common Airline: United (55 segments)
    Most Common Airport: Chicago O’Hare (ORD) (31 dep/32 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Chicago – Seattle (108)

  45. Miles: 195,568
    Segments: 108
    New Aircraft: Do not know
    New Airlines: Kenya Airways, TAP
    New Airports: Bamako, Mali; Porto, Portugal and Dakar,Senegal
    Most Common Aircraft: Do not know
    Most Common Airline: Delta
    Most Common Airport: Atlanta
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Atlanta-Chicago

  46. Miles: 44,921 (30,967 last year)
    Segments: 26 (19 last year)
    New Aircraft: ATR72, Xian MA60
    New Airlines: Laos Airlines, Korean Air
    New Airports: Atlanta, Burbank, Sacramento, Washington National, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, Luang Prabang, Pakse, Phnom Penh, Seoul Incheon, Siem Reap, Vientiane
    Most Common Aircraft: B737 (9 flights)
    Most Common Airline: Delta (11 flights)
    Most Common Airport: JFK (4 dep/3 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Newark-Seattle (3)

  47. Only four comercial, and that was on the same trip. CO 752 to EWR, CO 762 to MAD… CO 752 to EWR, CO 753 to LAX.

    I also had a few hours of actual flying time in a Cessna.

  48. Miles: 57,906
    Segments: 27
    New Aircraft: E135, E170, A332, B763, B773, B733, B737
    New Airlines: Air New Zealand, American, Eva Air, Cathay Pacific, China Eastern, Qantas, Southwest
    New Airports: AKL, HKG, IAH, MDW, OSH, PEK, PVG, SHA, ZQN
    Most Common Aircraft: E145, A320, B772 (3 flights each)
    Most Common Airline: UA/CO (14 segments)
    Most Common Airport: Des Moines (4 dep/4 arr)
    Most Common Non-Directional Route: Des Moines ? Chicago (6)

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