It’s the end of the year, so let’s see how we all did. My total mileage was up thanks to the Japan trip in May. It was good to get back into some international flying with a couple of trips, but the ANA 787 and Singapore A380 on that Japan trip was a clear highlight. I’m also glad to have finally tried the 787, and both variants at that. Here are the stats.
Miles: 37,816 (32,199 last year)
Segments: 31 (33 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-8, 787-9
New Airlines: ANA, Singapore
New Airports: Tokyo/Narita, Lihu’e
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: American/US Airways (11 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (10 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Los Angeles – San Francisco (4 segments)
So far, next year isn’t looking to be a big one, but it’s far too early to know for sure. (The big family trip for next year won’t involve an airplane at all.)
How did your year shape up? And how is next year looking?
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BIS Miles: 124,941 (10% fewer than last year)
Flights: 147 (133 domestic, 9 intercontinental, 5 other)
Most Common Airline: Delta (62 legs)
Most Common Aircraft: B737-700
New Cities: GIG, LIS, DBV
New Airlines: VX, OU, TP
Miles: 12,040 (11,598 last year)
Segments: 11 (9 last year)
New Aircraft: A321, EMB-175, A320 Winglets
New Airlines: Condor (New PVD-FRA service), Lufthansa, Alitalia, Alitalia Cityliner
New Airports: Frankfurt, Milan-Linate
Most Common Airline: N/A
Most Common Airport: Rome-Fiumicino
Most Common Route: N/A
Miles: 69.424 (+12,532)
Segments: 62 (-45)
Time Spent: 168h 4m (+20h 48m)
New Aircraft: 777-300ER, 747-8, A380, 787-8, E-175
New Airlines: Lufthansa
New Airports: Frankfurt, Pensacola, Birmingham
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 (16 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (36 segments)
Most Common Airport: Dallas Love Field (27 segments)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DAL – HOU (4 segments)
In Miles 50,719
Earth Circumnavigation 2.04 x
Distance to the Moon 0.212 x
Distance to the Sun 0.0005 x
Hours 103:58
Days 4.3
Weeks 0.6
Months 0.14
Years 0.012
All 33
Domestic 29
This includes my first private jet flight. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1697421-flying-jetsuite-sfo-las.html
38,000 miles and so far 59 segments.
And I thought I did hard flying.
All on United primarily to my home in San Diego, a trip to MSY and MCO and 3 trips to LAS
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Miles: 153,054
Segments: 110
New Aircraft: 787-8
New Airlines: Qatar
Most Common Aircraft: B767 (15 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (39 segments)
Most Common Airport: LHR
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LHR EWR
Miles: 32,322
Segments: 38
New Aircraft: 787-8, Brittan-Norman Islander, Saab 2000
New Airlines: Aer Arann Islands, Wow Air, Air Baltic, Alitalia, Vueling, Malmo Aviation, JetBlue, Braathans Regional, GoJet
New Airports: Cancun, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Connemara, Inis Mor, Dallas Love, Provincetown, Keflavik, Riga, Rome FCO, Palermo, Rome CIA, Gothenburg, Umea, Stockholm BMA
Common Aircraft: A320 (x7)
Common Airline: WestJet (x6)
Common Airport: Halifax (x7)
Common Route: YHZ-YYZ (x2)
Longest Flight: YHZ-GLA (2631 mi)
Shortest Flight: NNR-IOR (12 mi)
Miles: 32,289
Segments: 38
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: BNA, MEM, CHA, BUF, LFT, LIR
Most Common Aircraft: 737 & CRJ-900 tied
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: RDU & DCA tied
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSP – ATL
Miles: 94,893
Segments: 58
New Aircraft: B717, E175, E190
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Charleston
Most Common Aircraft: B737 all variants (16 segments), B757-200 ps configuration (15)
Most Common Airline: United/UX (50 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (20 take-off/arrival)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-JFK (5 flights)
Miles: 173,838
Segments: 133
New Aircraft: E175
New Airlines: SA, XZ (SA Express), EK
New Airports: COS, DTW, YUL, JNB, HDS, CPT, DXB
Most Common Aircraft: B737
Most Common Airline: American/US Airways (64 Segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-DFW
Miles: 66,866 (63,134 last year)
Segments: 97 (77 last year)
New Aircraft: B712,B739ER
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: DCA
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ9
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: SLC
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SLC-ABQ
Miles: 42,681
Segments: 18
New Aircraft: E175, A388
New Airlines: U2, FR, RV, CP, AB
New Airports: DFW, LGW, OPO
Most Common Aircraft: A320
Most Common Airline: BA
Most Common Airport: LAX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-LHR
Above includes the two flights I’ve got scheduled for the 31st.
Miles: 68,501
Segments: 37
New Aircraft: B747-8i
New Airlines: none
New Airports: DFW
Most Common Aircraft: B737 (17)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (17)
Most Common Airport: OAK (18)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: OAK-SEA (12)
Also just realized that I never got a middle seat this year, which is probably a first for me.
Miles: 288,995 (285,417 last year)
Segments: 169 (189 last year)
New Aircraft: ATR42, Q400, Bellanca CH-300
New Airlines: Aegean, Alaska, Allegiant, Bulgaria Air, Egypt Air, Etihad
New Airports: ABQ, AKL, ATH, AUH, BAH, BNA, BON, BSB, BZN, CAI, DAY, EDI, FRA, GCM, GRU, JAC, KWI, LIH, MCI, MKK, OSL, PDX, PSP, PVR, SJD, SOF, YEG
Most Common Aircraft: A320 family (34 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (44 segments)
Most Common Airport: IND (37 departures/34 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IND-LAX (10 segments), IND-PHX (10 segments), HNL-LAX (10 segments)
2015, the year miles flown went one way, award miles another, like 35,000 miles flown; award miles earned: 12!
Whatever, Happy New Year to everyone!
Miles: 122,997 (87,621 last year)
Segments: 78 (99 last year)
New Aircraft: B777-300, B717
New Airlines: Cathay Pacific, WestJet
New Airports: AUA, BDL, BGH, BGR, COS, EZE, HKG, LHR, OGG, SJU, YQX (Gander), YYZ
Most Common Aircraft: B737 (27 flights)
Most Common Airline: American/US Airways (62 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (28 departures/29 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DFW-DEN (4 segments)
Miles: 15619 (last year: 11156)
Segments: 5 (lowest since 2002)
New Aircraft: A380
New Airlines: none
New Airports: Chicago (ORD)
Most Common Aircraft: none (1 segment each type)
Most Common Airline: British Airways (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: LHR (2 arrivals, 2 departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LHR–TLV (2 segments)
Miles: 57,642 (46,255 last year)
Lifetime Airmiles: 2,426,821
Trips to Europe: 123
Segments: 20 (15 last year)
New Aircraft: E-175
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: NCL
Most Common Aircraft: 763
Most Common Airline: UA
Most Common Airport: ORD, AMS
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-AMS
Here we go…
Miles: 52,421 (55,063 last year)
Segments: 38 (33 last year)
New Aircraft: Sadly, None!
New Airlines: Virgin America & WestJet
New Airports: PBI (West Palm Beach), MIA (Miami), LIS (Lisbon)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 (10 Segments)
Most Common Airline: American Airlines (18 segments) – Includes US Airways
Most Common Airport: LAX (9 departures/9 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Burbank – Oakland (8 segments)
Happy New Year, Cranky.
Nice round up, newly subscribed to your blog. Making for some good reading!
I only had one flight to Amsterdam and back from Glasgow, UK.
Next year though, got a trip to Australia Via Dubia booked, and pencilled in a trip to New York which i still need to book! So fair chunk of mileage there I guess!
Have a good new year :)
Miles: 50,917(48,000 last year)
Segments: 30
New aircraft: 737-800
New airline: none
New airports: ITM
Most common aircraft: A321 (10 segments)
Most common airport: PHX (19 segments)
Most common non-directional route: PHX-SNA (10 segments)
So here are my stats, what looks like it is not the lowest, but still below average for most:
Total Miles: 23418
Total Flights: 16
Longest Flight: Seattle to Frankfurt – 5109 miles
Shortest Flight: Seattle to Spokane – 224 Miles
New Airports: 5 – Frankfurt, Newark, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Spokane
New Airlines: Condor
New Aircraft: Boeing 787-9, Boeing 747-8i
Most Flown Airline: TIED! United – 6, Alaska Airlines – 6
Most Flown Aircraft: Boeing 737 (all variants) – 6
I’m just very happy that airplanes will still exist next year since they were saved with the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. I had planned on living in a cave next year when society collapsed because the whiny grovellers at Boeing didn’t get its way.
If I wasn’t so loyal to Southwest, I’d purposely fly non-Boeing planes so I could take advantage of foreign tax slaves subsidizing my high-flying lifestyle.
Happy New Year (except to James McNerny)!
Miles: 30,966 (32,237 last year)
Segments: 17 (23 last year)
New Aircraft: E175
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: BRU, FRA
Most Common Aircraft: B752, B763, B772, MD88, A319 (2 flights each)
Most Common Airline: United (10 segments)
Most Common Airport: DSM (4 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DSM-ORD (3 segments)
Miles: 33,899 (23,983 in 2014)
Segments: 30
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: DCA, ALB, BTV
Most Common Aircraft: 319 (7 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (17 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (6 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX–DEN; LAX-HNL (3 segments each)
Longest Segment: BOS-LAX (2606)
Shortest Segment: HNL-LIH (102)
Miles: 141,272 (131,115 last year)
Segments: 69
New Aircraft: 787-8, 787-9, Dash 7
New Airlines: Kenya Airways, Virgin Australia, Turkish Airlines, AirKenya, Vueling, Air New Zealand, Jetstar Asia, Pegasus
New Airports: NAN, AKL, CHC, ZQN, BCN, IST, ATH, NBO
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (9 segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta (29 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (23 movements)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SFO-AMS (5 segments)
Longest Flight: 7,502m (SYD-LAX)
Shortest Flight 114m (NBO-Mara)
Miles: 29,827 (46,035 last year)
Segments: 34 (31 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: IST, MDZ, GYN, THE, PMW
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 195 (12 Flights)
Most Common Airline: Azul (20 segments)
Most Common Airport: CNF (11 departures / 11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-GRU (6 segments)
Took my shortest comercial flight ever: MDZ-SCL 121 Miles over the Andes…
Happy new year full of flights!
Miles: 25,722
Segments: 20
New Aircraft: 787-8, A318, 737-600, A340-300, DHC-8-400
New Airlines: Envoy* AZAL, Ukraine Intl, Air France, TAP, SAS, Finnair, Horizon
New Airports: DAL, AUS, MCI, MDW, CMH, GYD, EVN, KBP, VIE, LIS, ARN, HEL, PDX
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 & 787-8 (3 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest Airlines (5 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW & LAX (4 segments)
New Countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, Austria, Portugal, Sweeden, Finland
New Northernmost: HEL
New Westernmost: PDX
Miles: 5,826 mi (per Great Circle Mapper)
Segments: 7
New Aircraft: MD-82 (At least I’ven’t flown on an MD-82 since I started this log in 2006, might’ve flown one of them back in the US Air days long ago.)
New Airlines: OO (Skywest. Flown as Alaska Skywest)
New Airports: PDX (Although I spent almost no time there.)
Most Common Aircraft: Tie: 737-823 with Q400/DHC-8-402
Most Common Airline: AA (Three segments)
Most Common Airport: SEA (Two arrivals, Two Departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: n/a
Shortest Scheduled layover: -1 minutes. (Yes, negative 1 minute.)
Oops missed a new airport, so a correction:
New Airports: DFW (Thought it was the morning after a redeye.) PDX (Although, I spent almost no time there.)
And one more tweak:
“Shortest Scheduled layover: -1 minutes. (Yes, negative 1 minute.)”
Replace with
“Shortest layover per schedule: -1 minutes. (Yes, negative 1 minute.)”
So the whole thing revised would look like this:
Miles: 5,826 mi (per Great Circle Mapper)
Segments: 7
New Aircraft: MD-82 (At least I’ven’t flown on an MD-82 since I started this log in 2006, might’ve flown one of them back in the US Air days long ago.)
New Airlines: OO (Skywest. Flown as Alaska Skywest)
New Airports: DFW (Thought it was the morning after a redeye.) PDX (Although, I spent almost no time there.)
Most Common Aircraft: Tie: 737-823 with Q400/DHC-8-402
Most Common Airline: AA (Three segments)
Most Common Airport: SEA (Two arrivals, Two Departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: n/a
Shortest layover per schedule: -1 minutes. (Yes, negative 1 minute.)
Miles: 32,906
Segments: 20
New Aircraft: A380, E-190
New Airlines: Silk Air
New Airports: BKK, PNH
Most Common Aircraft: B737 (12 flights)
Most Common Airline: Virgin Australia (8 flights)
Most Common Airport: MEL
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MEL-SYD (3 segments)
Miles: 13,977
Segments: 11
New Aircraft: 737-800, A330-300
New Airports: CRP, MSP, SJC, MIA
Most Common Airline: US/AA (all)
Most Common Airport: PHX (10 of 11 flights)
Miles: 154,500 (135, 000 last year)
Segments: 110 (98 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-9
New Airlines: ANA, Vietnam Airlines, Air India, China Eastern Airlines, Swissair
New Airports: HND, PTY, HAN, SGN, PVG, PEK, XIY
Most Common Aircraft: b737 (42 flights)
Most Common Airline: United Airlines (82 segments)
Most Common Airport: BIL (12 departures/12 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Den – IAH (10 segments)
About the same for next year.
Love the diaries…. Is there an app that I can get to keep track of my flights??
I use and love jet lovers.com
http://openflights.org/
Miles: 128,391
Segments: 124
New Aircraft: Dreamliner (787-8), E170/E175
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: SMF, SAT, RNO, YVR, FLL, LIT, OAK, SNA.
Most Common Aircraft: 737
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: ORD
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-SFO
Miles: 161,379 (164,790 last year)
Segments: 209 (182 last year)
New Aircraft: Boeing 767-200ER, Embraer E-190, Airbus A340-300, ATR 72-500, Boeing 737-300, Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain, Cessna 208 Caravan, Airbus A310-300, Embraer E-195, Airbus A318-100
New Airlines: Japan Airlines, Tyrolean Airways, Air Berlin, Estonian Air, CSA Czech Airlines, Air Tahiti Nui, Finnair, Flybe Nordic, Southwest Airlines, Makani Kai Air, SATA Internacional, Air Europa, SATA Air Açores, Air France
New Airports: DSM, YYZ, DUS, HAM, VIE, PRG, CPH, TLL, HEL, CDG, YVR, FAR, DAB, ELP, HOU, LUP, MKK, PVD, SRQ, MAD, LIS, TER, HOR, PDL
Most Common Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-88 and MD-90 (32 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines (123 segments)
Most Common Airport: DAY, ATL (43 departures/43 arrivals each)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DAY-ATL (48 segments)
Guess you could also add:
Longest Flight: DTW-NGO, 6,544 mi
Shortest Flight: LUP-MKK, 9 mi
# of Airports: 63
# of Airlines: 26
# of Aircraft Types: 33
Ah you were in Dayton a lot. My condolences. That’s an efficientish airport but the windows suck for spotting.
Also it’s Dayton. I have a long an not always bright history with that are.
Miles: 26,105 (25,467 last year)
Segments: 20 (16 last year)
New Aircraft: 747-8, A330-300
New Airlines: Korean Air, Shanghai
New Airports: ORD, MSP, IAH, SAT, ICN, PVG, SHA, WNZ
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-700/A320/A330-300 (3 segments each)
Most Common Airline: American/US Airways (8 segments)
Most Common Airport: CLT (5 departures/5 arrivals) All connections to/from EWR
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Newark – Charlotte (5 segments)
Miles: 63,755
Segments: 38
New Aircraft: A319, 787-800, A380-800, Saab 2000
New Airlines: Etihad Regional, Air Berlin, CSA, Skymark, Spirit
New Airports: PRG, TXL, OTP, UKB
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (12 segments)
Most Common Airline: American (18 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (19 departures/arrivals)
Most Common Route: DFW-LAX (3 segments)
Other Tidbits: I was on the inaugural flight of American’s 787 (DFW-ORD, May 7th) and the final flight of US Airways (SFO-PHL on the night of October 16th).
This year was most definitely an outlier, thanks to a couple of unscheduled international trips due to unusually cheap airfares. 15-20k is typical in my new life and I’ll most likely revert to that next year, if not less.
Miles: 59,016
Segments: 46
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: Too many to list
Most Common Aircraft: B738 (20)
Most Common Airline: AA (21)
Most Common Airport(s): YUL (9); DFW (8)
Most Common Route: YUL-DFW (4); DFW-YUL (4)
Longest Route: LAX-BNE (7,174)
Shortest Route: FLL-BIM (61)
Miles: 28350 (new high for me).
Segments: 17.
New Aircraft: None.
New Airlines: ANA (Business & First), Air China, Juneyao, Korean Air, China Eastern.
New Airports: Tokyo/Narita, Beijing, Shanghai/Hongqiao, Seoul/Incheon, San Diego, Denver.
Most Common Aircraft: B777-300ER (4), B737-700 (4).
Most Common Airline: Air Canada, Southwest (4 segments each).
Most Common Airport: DTW (4 departures/2 arrivals), PVG (3 departures/3 arrivals).
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Shanghai-Detroit (4 segments), Detroit-San Diego (4 segments).
Miles: 73,456
Segments: 53
New Aircraft: Ilyushin Il-96
New Airlines: Aeroflot, Estonian, Norwegian, Saudia Arabian, Tarom
New Airports: Basel, Berlin/Schonefeld, Bordeaux, Bucharest, Cedar City (UT) [lol], Dammam, Dubai, Hamburg Kuwait, Madrid, Milan/Malpensa, Moscow/Sheremetyevo, Oslo, Prague, Tallinn
Most Common Aircraft: A320
Most Common Airline: KLM (16)
Most Common Airport(s): AMS
Most Common Route: AMS-YYZ
Longest Route: ORD-OGG
Shortest Route: KWI-DMM
Miles: 45,924
Segments: 68
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: YQF, LRD, BDL, SGF
Most Common Aircraft: B-737-700
Most Common Airline: Southwest (I achieved A-List Status!)
Most Common Route: 3-way tie DAL-LAX; LAS-LAX; MDW-MCI
Longest Flight: BDL-LAS
Shortest Flight: ORD-MKE
Also Most Common Airport: LAX
Miles: 7831
Segments: 12
STL-DTW, DTW-BTV, BTV-ORD, ORD-STL (twice), STL-IAD, IAD-RIC, RIC-ORD, STL-TPA, TPA-SJU, SJU-ATL, ATL-STL.
New Aircraft: DH8-200
New Airports: BTV, SJU
New Airlines: CommutAir
Historic Significance: I was 1 of the 100 million+ passengers that flew through ATL, the first airport to achieve the 100 million passenger threshold.
Miles: 22,830 ( a new Low)
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: B6
New Airports: MSY
Most Common Aircraft: 319
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Route: TPA-DCA
Longest Flight: IAD-DEN
Shortest Flight: DAL-MSY
Miles: 86,546 (32,505 last year)
Segments: 39 (28 last year)
New Aircraft: 777-300ER
New Airlines: Cathay Pacific, AA
New Airports: Hong Kong, Vancouver
Most Common Aircraft: E190 (15 flights)
Most Common Airline: American/US Airways (14 segments)
Most Common Airport: BOS (33 flights)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BOS-LGA (15 segments)
2016 should be about the same
Miles: 759,000 (more or less) Segments: 116 New Aircraft: none New Airlines: Porter New Airports: Sao Paulo (both), Billy Bishop Toronto, Rotterdam, Monterrey MX Most Common Aircraft: 320 Most Common Airline: United 102 Segments Most Common Airport: SFO 69 arrivals or departures Most Common Non-Directional Route: SFO-LHR 16 segments
Sorry typo: 259,000 miles.
davidrosen – Still a ton of miles, but I had to do a double take when I saw that originally.
Miles: 21,502
Segments: 13
New Aircraft: 777-300ER, 717-200
New Airlines: Emirates, FlyDubai, IndiGo
New Airports: O’hare, Dubai, Kathmandu, Delhi
Most Common Airport: SDF
Miles: 29,827 (46,035 last year)
Segments: 34 (31 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: IST, MDZ, GYN, PMW, THE,
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 195 (12 flights)
Most Common Airline: Azul (20 segments)
Most Common Airport: CNF (11 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-GRU (6 segments)
Took my shortest flight ever: MDZ-SCL 121 Miles over the Andes
Miles: 103,017 (110,749 last year)
Segments: 88 (126 last year)
New Aircraft: 767-400, 787-8, ERJ 140, Fokker 70, Fokker 100, Q300
New Airlines: Austrian, Etihad, JetBlue, LOT
New Airports: AUH, AUS, BQN, BUD, CPH, MCO, MSQ, MXP, SJU, VIE, VNO, WAW, YUL
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ200 (14 flights) – yikes!
Most Common Airline: United/United Express (42 segments)
Most Common Airport: LGA (28 combined departures & arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LGARIC (17 segments)
Just while I’m looking at this, does anyone know what the medians for these numbers look like for a pilot or FA? I’m sure it varies significantly for regional jet, narrowbody jet, and widebody jet. It’d be interesting to know, and perhaps something the companies would be willing to tell us?
Miles: 88,510
Segments: 70
New Aircraft: B717, missed out on A350 with an equipment change
New Airlines: Singapore, Silk, Qatar, Emirates, Cathay
New Airports: Adelaide, Port Macquarie, Newcastle, Brisbane, Cairns, Perth, Hong Kong, Doha, Dubai, Budapest, Chengdu
Most Common Aircraft: B738 (43 Sectors)
Most Common Airline: Qantas (48 Sectors)
Most Common Airport: MEL (47 times)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MEL-SYD (36 Sectors)
Conclusion: Moving to Australia has changed my flying patterns
A bit less than last year. Got my first ride on a 787, though it ended up being delayed and I only made the connection from it thanks to Global Entry. Also completed my collection of the E-Jet family with the E-190 (if you include the older models I haven’t been on the EMB-110 and ERJ-135). Also managed to collect all the new airlines on a single trip. Finally, and this is mostly for Cranky, I got my first flight out of Long Beach since 1999 this week; the last time was on WinAir!
Miles: 36,292 (68,502 last year)
Segments: 22 (32 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-8, E-190
New Airlines: Compass, KLM, KLM Cityhopper, SAS, Widerøe
New Airports: Houston-Intercontinental, Oslo, Tromsø, Bodø, Bergen
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700, E-175 (tie – 4 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Compass, Delta (tie – 4 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (4 departures/5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Diego-Los Angeles (4 segments)
Longest Flight: Los Angeles-Amsterdam (5571 miles)
Shortest Flight: San Diego-Los Angeles (109 miles)
Only completed my flying last night, so that’s why it’s late –
Miles: 117,475 BIS (130.945 last year)
Segments: 53 (54 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-9
New Airlines: Indigo
New Airports: Savannah, Pune
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (13 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (40 segments)
Most Common Airport: PDX (11 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-SFO (12 segments)
Miles: 38160
Segments: 28
New Aircraft: Dornier Do 228
New Airlines: STP Airways, Wizzair, Swiss, TAP Portugal
New Airports: Sao Tome, Principe, New Doha airport, Beirut, Dublin, Skopje, Gdansk, Vilnius, Dortmund, Zurich
Most Common Aircraft: probably B737
Most Common Airline: Wizzair
Most Common Airport: Munich
Most Common Non-Directional Route: every flight was unique…
Miles: 290,111 (v. 235,147 last year)
Segments: 172 (v. 174 last year)
New Aircraft: 787
New Airlines: Aer Lingus, LAN Chile, Virgin Atlantic
New Airports: AKL, BRU, DUB
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737
Most Common Airline: American
Most Common Airport: ORD
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-DCA (37 segments)
And, if you’re wondering how LAN Chile was a new airline while there are no new airports in South America, it’s because I flew them on fifth freedom segments SYD-AKL.
Miles: 227,522
Segments: 121
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: Frontier (F9)
Most Common Airline: American Airlines (AA)
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800
Most Common Airport: BOS (Boston Logan)
Most Common Route: BOS-LAX
Miles: 64,028 (41,729 last year)
Segments: 56
New Aircraft: E170/175, 787-9
New Airlines: Lufthansa
New Airports: Oklahoma City, Nashville, Munich, Frankfurt, Nice
Most Common Aircraft: 737
Most Common Airline: United (All but 7 segments)
Most Common Airport: IAH
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Houston – DC
Busiest year of flying ever – virtually entirely short haul; gotta reduce for next year. Still going for my target of flying to or from all airports in Europe (except Russia and Belarus) with commercial passenger service. Have decided to widen the scope to riding every passenger airline that flies within Europe as well.
CF – if you’re wondering what happened to America West’s HP airline code, I flew on it this year in the form of a very small Swedish carrier called AmapolaFlyg
Miles: 80,833 (33,670 last year)
Segments: 127 (76 last year)
New Aircraft: A310, Avro RJ 100, Beechcraft King Air B200, B717, CRJ-200, CRJ-1000, Cessna 208 Amphibian, Dash 6 Seaplane, Emb-120, Emb-145, Jetstream 41, MD-82
New Airlines: Adria, Air Berlin, Air Italy, Air Nostrum, AirExplore, Amapola Flyg, Arkefly, Bergen Air, Blue1, BMI Regional, Carpatair, Cimber, Cinnamon Air, European Coastal Airlines, Finnair, Flybe Nordic, Garuda Indonesia, Iberia Express, Jet2, Jetairfly, Meridiana, Miami Air Intl, MIAT Mongolian, Norwegian Air Intl, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Skytaxi, Sri Lankan, Swiftair, Swiss, Swiss European, Thomas Cook Air, Trade Air, Tyrolean, VLM, Wideroe, Wizzair Ukraine
New Airports: Alesund, Badajoz, Beauvais, Bentota, Bergen, Beziers, Bristol, Bucharest-Otopeni, Castellon, Chateauroux, Colombo, Constanta, Haugesund, Jelsa, Kalmar, Kandy, Karlstad, Kosice, Kristianstad, Leon, Liege, Lugano, Lviv, Mahon, Maribor, Milan-Linate, Norrkoping, Notodden, Ohrid, Orebro, Poprad-Tatry, Prague, Rabat, Rijeka, Rodez, Rostock, Rzeszow, Salamanca, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tangiers, Tetouan, Turin, Venice-Treviso, Vigo
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737 (48 flights)
Most Common Airline: Ryanair (33 flights)
Most Common Airport: London-Stansted (28 flights)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: London-Luton to Copenhagen (4 flights)
David – I had no idea HP was back in circulation again. Fokker 50, huh?
Pretty cool.
Miles: 47,580 (46,617 last year)
Segments: 29 (36 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-9, A380-800
New Airlines: Etihad, Korean, Cathay Pacific, Copa, British Airways
New Airports: Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Panama City, Hong Kong, Penaang, Seoul
Most Common Aircraft: Sadly, CRJ200
Most Common Airline: American/US Airways (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: DCA (4 departures, 3 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Nashville-DCA (4 segments)
2015
Miles: 61,874
Segments: 132
New aircraft: C-208B; (missed out on 787 due to late inbound flight)
New Airlines: Sea Port Airlines
New Airports: FAY, HOT, ELD, PWM, SRQ, MLB
Most common a/c: A319
Most common airline: US (87)
Most common airport: CLT (72)
Most common non-directional route: MEM-CLT (19)
109 segments in F (83%)
Miles: 77,569 (26,498 last year)
Kilometers: 124,835 (42,645 last year)
Segments: 55 (30 last year)
New Aircraft: B747-400, SSJ100, B737-700, B777-200ER
New Airlines: American Airlines, British Airways, Japan Airlines, SAS + operating airlines: HiFly (5K), Cityjet (WX), Jet time (JTF)
New Airports: 11 – TLS, MUC, LHR, MIA, JFK, LGA, DFW, SFO, LAX, GCN, NRT
Most Common Aircraft: Dash8-Q400 (11 flights)
Most Common Airline: Finnair (25 segments)
Most Common Airport: Helsinki: 43 (22 departures/21 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Helsinki – Riga (20 segments: 11 HEL-RIX, 9 RIX-HEL)