2019 Flying Summary

Dec 31, 2019

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It’s the last day of the year, so that means it’s time to look at the year in flying.

Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz.

Miles: 33,378 (19,406 last year)
Segments: 36 (17 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: FlyBe, Loganair
New Airports: Edinburgh, Islay, Hilo
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 and 717 (6 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Hawaiian (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (5 departures/6 arrivals) (Long Beach was 5/4)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Las Vegas – Long Beach (4 segments)

It’s hard to see it on the map, but there was a whole lot of flying up and down the west coast. Of course, there was my Hawaiian adventure and my trip to Europe, and that made for what Ii’d consider to be a pretty decent year.

How’d you do?

Brett

69 responses to “2019 Flying Summary”

David

Dec 31, 2019 at 4:05 am

Highlight of the year – flying to and from Aero airport in Denmark

Miles: 110,277 (108,083 last year)
Segments: 154 (169 last year)
New Aircraft: Cessna 172 Skyhawk, Cessna Citation Sovereign, Dornier 328 Jet, Yakovlev 40
New Airlines: Alsie Express, Air Horizont, Air Leap, AirTanker, BH Air, Braathens Regional Airways, Braathens Regional Aviation, Bulgarian Air Charter, Canaryfly, Condor, Corendon Airlines Europe, Corendon Dutch Airlines, Etihad Airways, EuroAtlantic Airways, FLN Frisia Luftverkehr, FlyBosnia, Freebird Airlines, Georgian Airways, Go2Sky, Great Dane Airlines, Hahn Air, HiFly Malta, Just Us Air, Lumiwings, MHS Aviation, MyWay Airlines, Nouvelair Tunisie, Novair, Nyxair, Privilege Style, Royal Air Maroc Express, Ryanair UK, SmartLynx Estonia, Starling Air, SUN-AIR, Sunwing, Thomas Cook Airlines Balearics, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia, Thomas Cook Aviation, Transaviabaltika
New Airports: Aalborg, Aero, Banja Luka, Billund, Bornholm, Bouarfa, Bourgas, Burgos, Carlisle, Comiso, Dole, Jonkoping, Kharkiv, Kuressare, La Palma, Lemnos, Logrono, Mannheim, Mytilene, Nador, Odense, Pajala, Pantelleria, Parnu, Piestany, Region de Murcia, Ronneby, Ruhnu, Sonderborg, Svendborg, Tbilisi, Torsby, Turku, Uzhhorod, Zaragoza
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800 (49 flights)
Most Common Airline: Ryanair (32 segments)
Most Common Airport: London Stansted (17 departures/16 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: London Stansted – Oslo (4 times)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=STN-CMF%2CGNB-LTNSTN-ILD%2CZAZ-STNLTN-HRK-VIE-LHRSTN-DLE%2CLYS-LGWLTN-VRN%2CBLQ-TIA-LGWSTN-FRA%2CMHG-TXL-STNLGW-CPH%2CRNB-ARN-KSD%2CTYF-HFS-ARN-LGWLGW-SPC-TFN%2CTFS-BHXLGW-RVN-LGWLGW-CGN%2CDUS-LUX-LGWSTN-BLL-LCYSTN-OSL-TOS-LGWLTN-ACE-LGWLTN-DEB%2CUDJ-LWO-WAW-LHRSTN-VGO%2CSCQ-STNLTN-ALC%2CRMU-STNLGW-EDI%2CDND-STNLHR-ARN-TLL%2CEPU-EERU-URE-TLL-LGWSTN-BVE%2CCDG-LGWSEN-BES-ORY%2CCDG-LTNSTN-BGY%2CMXP-STNSTN-OSL-CDG-LTNLHR-CPH%2CJKG-RHO-LGWLTN-KEF-LGWSTN-TLS%2CRDZ-STNSTN-BLL%2CODE-RNN-CPH%2CEKST-EKAE-EKST%2CCPH-STNLTN-BTS%2CPZY-AYT-SXF-STNSTN-OSL-RHO-DUS-LCYLGW-MAD-STNLTN-CTA%2CCIY-STNLTN-ATH-LXS-LGWLTN-BUD%2CUDJ-IEV-LTNLGW-VRN%2CBLQ-PNL-TPS-AMS-LGWCAX-SENLGW-ARN-OSL-STNLGW-DUS-BOJ-LGWMAN-PMI-CGN-STNSTN-AAR%2CAAL-EDILTN-CDG-HER-LGWSTN-PGF%2CBCN-PMI-HAM-PMI-BCN%2CRJL-MAD%2CRGS-BCN-LTNLHR-ARN-TKU-LTNLTN-ATH-MJT-VIE%2CBTS-STNNWI-MAH-BCN%2CCCF-STNLTN-BEG-BNX-BEG-LHRLTN-SJJ-BUD-LGWSTN-BLL%2CSGD-LPLLGW-TBS-TLV-LTNLGW-PJA-LGWSTN-GOT-BMA-MMX%2CCPH-STNLGW-CDG%2CORY-NDR%2CUAR-CMN-LIS-LTN&MS=wls&DU=mi

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Shane

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:00 am

Miles: 91,591
Segments: 32
New Aircraft: A350
New Airlines: Korean, Cathay Pacific
New Airports: Beijing PEK Incheon, Hong Kong
Most Common Aircraft: 777-300
Most Common Airline:United (18 segments)
Most Common Airport: Washington National, Washington Dulles, Newark, Tel Aviv
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Newark – Tel Aviv (6 segments)

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Ted

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:03 am

Miles: 35,545
Flights: 46

Both records for me. Hoping to do better in 2020.

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A

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:20 am

Not a milestone year for me and next year will be likely less as I’m changing jobs so I can spend more time with my daughters. Hopefully I’ll get an opportunity to spend some of those skymiles on a nice international trip.

Miles: 26,614
Segments: 18
New Aircraft: A220
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-900 (Ugh)
Most Common Airline: Delta (all flights)
Most Common Airport: IAH
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BNA-DTW

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AH

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:44 am

Miles: 40,389
Segments: 61
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: New Haven, Hilton Head, Gainesville, Toronto
Most Common Aircraft: MD-88 (probably the last time that happens!)
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: ATL
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ATL-IND

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terminalwander

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:55 am

Miles: 27,686 (55,221 last year)
Segments: 55 (54 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: Caspar, WY
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-700 (12)
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: Dulles (13 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DCA-ORD

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Davey

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:58 am

Miles: 116,000
Segments: 100
New Aircraft None
New Airlines None
Most Common Aircraft 737-800/900
Most Common Airline United
Most Common Airports ORD/MCO
Best Trip ORD-CDG-MCO
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MCO-ORD

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Carl

Dec 31, 2019 at 6:02 am

Miles: 64,480 (60,523 last year)
Segments: 62 (54 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A220-100
New Airlines: None
New Airports: HOU,MEX,STL
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (16 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (52 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (22 A and D)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX to HOU (4 segments)

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James Burke

Dec 31, 2019 at 6:22 am

Miles: 8,742 (12,574 last year)
Segments: 13 (16 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: Swoop, Exploits Valley Air Service
New Airports: Gander
Most Common Aircraft: Q400 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: Air Canada & Express (6 segments)
Most Common Airport: Halifax
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Halifax – Toronto – 6 segments
Shortest flight: YYT-YQX 124 miles
Longest flight: YHZ-YHM 823 miles

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Henning

Dec 31, 2019 at 6:23 am

Miles: 28,211 (26,041 last year)
Segments: 22 (18 last year)
New Aircraft: 737-700 ^^, A380, E190
New Airlines: EasyJet Europe, KLM, KLM Cityhopper, Scoot, IndiGo, Austrian, Air Serbia, SunExpress, BA Cityflier
New Airports: Milan MXP, Amsterdam AMS, Porto OPO, Cebu CEB, Bangalore BLR, Goa GOI, Belgrade BEG, New Istanbul IST, Vienna VIE, Izmir ADB, London City LCY
Most Common Aircraft: A320 and A321 (4 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Turkish (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: Frankfurt FRA (6 departures/5 arrivals)

https://my.flightradar24.com/HenningN/2019

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Brian

Dec 31, 2019 at 6:36 am

Miles: 6,486 (20,454 last year)
Segments: 8 (12 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Salt Lake City
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (2 segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta/United (4 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Des Moines (2 departures/2 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: None

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Hov

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:00 am

Miles: not enough for status this year
New Aircraft: CRJ-550, 787-9
New Airlines: Frontier, Air China, Juneyao
New Airports: PEK, CKG, PVG, RSW
Most Common Airline: American
Most Common Airport: GRR

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Neil

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:00 am

Miles: 114,210 (61.465 last year)
Segments: 121 (51 last year)
New Aircraft: Embraer 190
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Edinburgh (EDI), Columbus (CMH), Louisville (SDF), Raleigh (RDU), Constable Point (CNP), Cordova (CDV), Yakutat (YAK), Jacksonville (JAX), Quebec City (YQB), Long Beach (LGB), Montgomery (MGM), Omaha (OMA)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900ER
Most Common Airline: Alaska (74 segments)
Most Common Airport: Seattle
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Denver-Seattle, Seattle-Juneau (32 segments/each)

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Jeremy Anderson

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:05 am

In Miles 35,669
All 9
Domestic 1
Intercontinental 6
Other flights 2

What a weird year. Only 1 domestic flight, 2 trips to Europe and one to China. My first time in international business class.

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Tommy

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:08 am

Miles: 51,265 (33,029 last year)
Segments: 74 (44 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: Porter
New Airports: Evansville (EVV), Grand Rapids (GRR), Toronto-Billy Bishop (YTZ)
Most Common Aircraft: E-175 (13 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (34 segments)
Most Common Airport: Omaha (OMA) (27 departures/27 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Omaha (OMA) – Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) (16 segments)

Highlight of year: Flying on final AA MD-80 departure OMA-DFW.

https://my.flightradar24.com/gtown044/2019

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SubwayNut

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:11 am

Miles: 26,837 (last year 17,500)
Segments: 29 segments (last year 17)
New Aircraft Type: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: OMA
Most Common Aircraft Type: 737 various types at 10
Most Common Airline: Tie Delta and United (both 9 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD (4 arrivals, 5 departures, 3 connections to and from the SBN to ORD flight, otherwise took the train to and from home in South Bend)
Most Common Non-Directional Routing: 4 (SBN to SYR), although 6 flights total evenly split to LAX from ORD or MDW

Fun Facts:

I exclusively traveled domestically on Basic Economy tickets (except 3 Southwest segments, and one each on Spirit and Frontier) and never purchased any seat assignments. All but 3 segments were flown with my partner and we sat together on every flight only having to switch seats with people twice once on board.

Most Comfortable Flights: United’s still 3-3-3 777, the E175 flights, and on Southwest using the customer of size policy giving us a full row to ourselves.

Least Comfortable Flight: United’s 757 and the CRJ flights.

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CrankyDavid

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:23 am

Map: https://bit.ly/35cUHmF

Miles: 32,943 (45,651 last year)
Segments: 33 (32 last year)
New Aircraft: Jetstream 32
New Airlines: Eagle Air, Sun Country
New Airports: EYW, ANU, PDX, SAV, HFN, RKV
Most Common Aircraft Type: 737-800 (10)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (10)
Most Common Airport: BNA (10 departures/10 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BNA-LAS (4 times)

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greg.schriefer

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:27 am

Your Travel Stats 2019 Total Trips 26 150 Days 123 655 Distance 48,253 mi 431,821 mi Cities 19 105 Countries 1 10

I use Tripit to keep people informed of my travel plans and they have this summary.
I enjoy your emails.

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Paul

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:28 am

Miles: 306,658 – 283,251 for business, 23,407 for pleasure (235,375 last year)
Segments: 91 – 28Y, 1PE, 63J (73 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: Austrian, Xiamen
New Airports: Samui, Xiamen, Sanya, Barcelona, Paris (CDG), IST New, Saltzberg, Krakow
Most Common Airline: Singapore Airlines (I know, lucky me – 37 segments)
Most Common Airport: Singapore (27 departures/28 arrivals)

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Tim Dunn

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:35 am

total segments
75
total mileage
94,901 (-5% compared to 2018)

4 cities Europe/ Mediterranean
4 cities Asia
5 cities S. America
20 US cities
1 Canadian city
14 airlines

New aircraft: A220, A330-900

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1. Tim Dunn
  
  Jan 2, 2020 at 4:56 pm
  
  A321NEO was also a new aircraft for me.
  
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CrankyHarry

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:51 am

Map: https://bit.ly/2QzIaEn

Miles: 58,813 (85,777 last year)
Segments: 60 (47 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A350-900, A350-1000, A330-900
New Airlines: Malawian Airlines, Air Tanzania, TAP Air Portugal
New Airports: BNA, BLZ, JNB, LLW, VFA, LVI, CPT, LIS, SAF
Most Common Aircraft Type: 737-800 (11)
Most Common Airline: American (24)
Most Common Airport: RDU (8 departures/9 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DAR-IRI (4 times)

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Doug

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:54 am

Miles: 42,218
Segments: 36
New Aircraft: A380
New Airlines: H2, QF, AR, F9, G4, NK
New Airports: BRC, AEP, MEL
Most Common Aircraft: A321
Most Common Airline: AA
Most Common Airport: AUS
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AUS-DFW

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CP

Dec 31, 2019 at 8:49 am

Miles: 189,290 (194,169 last year)
Segments: 161 (174 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: TAP Air Portugal
New Airports: Basel, Switzerland (BSL); Paris-Orly, France (ORY); Toledo, Ohio (TOL)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800
Most Common Airline: American (88 segments)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Chicago (ORD)-Orlando (MCO) (25 segments)
New Routes: BSL-LHR, CPH-AMS, DFW-PVR, LAX-SMF, LIS-ORY, LHR-IAH, MCO-LAX, MCO-MIA, MSP-SMF, ORD-LIS, ORD-TOL, PDX-LHR, PVR-ORD, SEA-MCO, SJC-SEA, SLC-SJC, SLC-SMF, SMF-ORD, SMF-PDX, SMF-SFO

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dfw88

Dec 31, 2019 at 8:49 am

Miles: 104,455 (135,438 last year)
Segments: 90 (100 last year)
New Aircraft: Britten-Norman Islander, Avro RJ85
New Airlines: Aer Lingus, BA, Alitalia, Aer Arann Islands (!)
New Airports: 24 (ASE, BHM, BTR, DAY, DBV, DRO, GRK, GRR, IOR, KEF, LCY, LGW, LHR, MAF, MOB, MTJ, MVD, NNR, OMA, ONT, RNO, SNA, SNN, VCE)
Most Common Aircraft Type: 737-800 (29)
Most Common Airline: American (83)
Most Common Airport: DFW (69 departures+arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DFW-IAH (6 times)

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al9000

Dec 31, 2019 at 8:51 am

Miles: 30,221 (42,510 in 2018)
Segments: 26
New Aircraft: ATR-42, CRJ550
New Airlines: ‘Ohana by Hawaiian
New Airports: JHM, MSN
Most Common Aircraft: E175 (7 segments)
Most Common Airline: American (13 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (6 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-HNL (4 segments)
Longest Segment: HNL-LAX (2,621 miles)
Shortest Segment: HNL-MKK (66 miles)

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southbay flier

Dec 31, 2019 at 9:16 am

Miles: 91,788
Segments: 59
New Aircraft: A220-100, A350-900
New Airlines: GA, VA
New Airports: GJT, MSY, SYD, ADL, MEL
Most Common Aircraft: E175
Most Common Airline: DL (51 segments)
Most Common Airport: SJC
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SJC-SEA

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Eliyahu

Dec 31, 2019 at 9:30 am

Miles: 64,840
Segments: 46
New Aircraft: A380, Twin Otter, Cessna 208 Caravan
New Airlines: Harbour Air, Westjet
New Airports: CXH, YVR, YWH, MSY, DEN, SMF, MEX, FAT
Most Common Aircraft: Not tracked
Most Common Airline: Southwest (21 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (12 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: OAK-BUR (9 segments)
Longest Segment: JFK-TLV, 5,671 miles
Shortest Segment: YWH-CHX, 62 miles

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Thomasp168

Dec 31, 2019 at 9:42 am

Ok, here goes it: [Image] Map: my.flightradar24.com 163 segments 145,000 miles 43 airports. New: HKG, ICN, BKK, SYD, ANC, CBR, GSP, RDU Most common route: MSP-MKE Aircraft: 26 different types, new: 787, A330, A350, ATR72, Q-400. Most common-CRJ900 Airlines: Delta-154, Virgin Australia-2, KAL-2, Hong Kong Air-4, Westjet-2

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gbrant

Dec 31, 2019 at 9:42 am

Flying is usually a great experience, and the employees are normally helpful.
I fly AA, this year 130 segments, 89,000 miles, spending $15k. Exec Platinum since 2000. Have 1,998,000 miles.
You do a great job.
Thanks.

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Johnny Jet

Dec 31, 2019 at 10:21 am

Nice to see you traveling more! I traveled less in 2019 (94,000). Just wrote about it in my newsletter… https://mailchi.mp/johnnyjet/an-important-reminder-the-best-stories-of-the-decade-new-years-eve

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LT_DT

Dec 31, 2019 at 10:38 am

Miles: 61,612 (44,835 last year)
Segments: 47
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: Jetstar
New Airports: none
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (multiple variants)
Most Common Airline: United (all but three segments)
Most Common Airport: IAH
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IAH-DC (combo of IAD and DCA)

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USBusinessTraveller

Dec 31, 2019 at 10:41 am

Miles: 152,354 (109,098 last year)
Segments: 83 (159 last year)
New Aircraft: 737-MAX8, 737-MAX9, A350-900
New Airlines: Spicejet, Alliance Air (Air India), AeroMexico, Brussels Airlines
New Airports: Norfolk VA (ORF), Tiruchirappalli India (TRZ), Monterrey MX (MTY), Queretaro MX (QRO), Santago de Chile (SCL)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900 (15)
Most Common Airline: United (74 segments)
Most Common Airport: Portland (17 departures/17 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-SFO (9 segments)

https://bit.ly/2FbFS9f

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1. USBusinessTraveller
  
  Dec 31, 2019 at 10:42 am
  
  Sorry that should be 83 segments compared to 59 last year.
  
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Ron

Dec 31, 2019 at 10:51 am

Miles: 25,704 (last year: 32,434)
Segments: 10 (12)
New Aircraft: E-175, 777-300
New Airlines: Swiss
New Airports: Zürich (ZRH)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800, 767-300, E-175, 777-300 (2 segments each)
Most Common Airline: American (3 segments)
Most Common Airport: SLC (2 departures, 2 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional route: LGB-SLC, SLC-LHR, LAX-DCA (2 segments each)

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Doug Swalen

Dec 31, 2019 at 10:58 am

I didn’t think I would be flying as much .since I had no big international long haul dive trips going this year but I actually did fly my second or third most ever in terms of distance…

Miles: 31,102 (34,374 last year)
Segments: 17 (18 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-9 (Upgraded to Biz!), A321Neo
New Airlines: AS
New Airports: YYZ
New Airport Hotels: TWA Hotel JFK (yes I’m bragging), H Hotel LAX (Crankyspotting)
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (8 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (8 segments), Air Canada (5 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (7 departures/7 arrivals) (YUL was 2/2)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SFO-LAX (4 segments)

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VIB720

Dec 31, 2019 at 11:37 am

What would Greta say?

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Ian L

Dec 31, 2019 at 11:40 am

Miles: 52,401 (27,273 last year)
Segments: 29 (22 last year)
New Aircraft: A330-200, A380
New Airlines: Air Serbia, Lufthansa
New Airports: IAD, BRU, PHX, MSP, JFK, BEG, MUC, SOF
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800/900/900ER (8 segments); add another 4 for -700
Most Common Airline: United (7 segments), Southwest (6 segments)
Most Common Airport: Austin (10 departures, 10 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Austin – Denver (5 segments)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=aus-iad-bru-iad-aus-mia-aus-phx-den-aus-msp-aus-den-aus-jfk-beg-jfk-aus-pdx-aus-den-aus-dca-aus-ord-muc-sof-muc-sfo-aus

Was my first time in an economy seat on a 777…and my first time on a business-class ticket on a 777 (last-minute paid upgrade to get out of 10-across on a newly-upgraded UA bird)…but not my first time on a 777. Back in 2017 AA mis-labelled a business class seat as Economy DFW-MIA, and I hopped right on that. Almost forgot about that flight when compiling this list. The other two 777 trips were in 3-3-3 economy so I stayed put there.

Was also my first time bus-boarding an aircraft (JFK-BEG), my first time deplaning by bus (SOF-MUC), and my first time using AUS’s South Terminal (DEN-AUS on Frontier).

Most memorable flight was absolutely the long MUC-SFO leg on the upper-deck Economy cabin of an A380. Glad I could make it onto both jumbo jets before each gets retired (I flew the 747 2x last year).

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ktenorman

Dec 31, 2019 at 11:55 am

Miles: 49,869 (45,960 last year)
Segments: 38 (43 last year)
New Aircraft: A318, A330-900neo, A330-300, 787-9
New Airlines: Delta, TAP Portugal, Air France, Vueling, Qantas
New Airports: SYD, MEL, CDG, ORY, AMS, FLR, LIS, BZN, BUR, ONT, OGG, LAS
Most Common Aircraft: 737NG (21 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (16 segments)
Most Common Airport: San Francisco (15) (Oakland was 14)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Oakland – Salt Lake City (3 segments)

An excellent year in travel! Cheers to 2020.

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ZKing

Dec 31, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Miles: 73,654
Segments: 33
New Aircraft: a350, 787-10
New Airlines: Ethiopian, ANA, Air Asia, Air Canada, Myanmar National Airlines
New Airports: Addis Ababa, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Yangon, Taunggyi, Toronto, Rochester, Blantyre, Narita
Most Common Aircraft: ERJ-175, 777-300 (6 flights each)
Most Common Airline: United (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: Newark (6 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Newark – Pittsburgh (6 segments)

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AKM

Dec 31, 2019 at 12:15 pm

Highlights for me this year were flying United’s Island Hopper route and taking my first A380 flight.

Miles: 65,934 (13,485 last year)
Segments: 43 (13 last year)
New Aircraft: A380
New Airlines: Air France, Emirates, JamboJet
New Airports: COD, DXB, KIX, KSA, KWA, MAJ, MUC, NBO, PNI, TKK, UKA, YYJ
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (16 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (28 segments)
Most Common Airport: Calgary (19 arrivals) and Denver (19 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-YYC

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ChuckMO

Dec 31, 2019 at 12:53 pm

Segments Flown: 15

Miles Flown: 11,110

Airlines Flown: Delta, Southwest

New Aircraft: A321

New Airport: NAS (Nassau, Bahamas)

Routings: STL-ATL-NAS-ATL-STL, STL-LAX-PHX-STL, STL-ATL-JFK-ATL-STL, STL-ATL-GCM-ATL-STL.

Fun Fact: This was my third time flying PHX-STL, but I have never flown STL-PHX.

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2Sylbl

Dec 31, 2019 at 1:06 pm

Highlight of the year: JFK-SVO-DXB-NBO-JFK in 5 days, just to see Alicia Keys in Dubai (airfare less than $800)

Miles: 62,255 (70,341 last year)
Segments: 60 (65 last year)
New Aircraft: Fokker 50, DHC-7, Do228, B787-9, Q400, DHC-2, DHC-3T
New Airlines: Kenya Airways, LOT Polish, Mayair, Air Tindi, Spirit, VivaAerobus, Air Belgium, Harbour Air
New Airports: Warsaw, Villahermosa, Merida, Munich, Dubai, Nairobi, Vancouver, Abbotsford
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-900
Most Common Airline: Delta (20 segments) and Endeavor Air (20 segments)
Most Common Airport: Knoxville (27 segments)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Knoxville – Atlanta (12 segments)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=tys-lga-jfk-svo-dxb-nbo-jfk-lga-tys-atl-msy-atl-tys-atl-iah-atl-tys-dtw-sea-msp-tys-lga-tys-atl-den-sea-msp-tys-dtw-sea-atl-tys-msp-yvr-yxx-yvr-atl-tys-atl-mex-vsa-mid-cun-dfw-tys-atl-mci-atl-tys-lga-jfk-waw-prg-muc-waw-jfk-lga-tys-atl-sea-msp-tys-lga-tys

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Jared

Dec 31, 2019 at 2:03 pm

Happy New Year, Cranky!

Miles: 55,282 (50,354 last year)
Segments: 32 (29 last year)
New Aircraft: Sadly, none
New Airlines: Qantas
New Airports: DSM (Des Moines, IA), HBA (Hobart, Tasmania), LST (Launceston, Tasmania), ADL (Adelaide, South Australia)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700/800 (17 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (18 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (7 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BUR-OAK (6 segments)

I got to fly on an AA MD80 about two weeks before retirement from DSM-DFW. It was exciting but the plane was so old, I was kind of scared in a weird way and I am not a scared flyer. I also got to fly on a Q400 between Launceston and Melbourne, which was an absolutely beautiful view!

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1. Jared
  
  Dec 31, 2019 at 2:09 pm
  
  Here’s my map!
  http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=CUN-LAX,+LAX-ORD-MIA-SFO-LAX,+LAX-LHR-LAX,+LAX-BOS-LAX,+BUR-OAK-BUR,+BUR-SMF-BUR,+LAX-MEX-LAX,+BUR-LAS-BUR,+LAX-PHX-DSM-DFW-SFO,+OAK-BUR,+LAX-SYD-HBA,+LST-MEL-ADL,+ADL-SYD-LAX,+BUR-OAK-BUR,+LAX-MIA-LAX
  
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David M

Dec 31, 2019 at 2:22 pm

Last year was so weak I didn’t even post, this year was a bit better. Only four trips total, but three were west coast-Europe and the other was west coast-Hawaii, so pretty good on miles.

Miles: 39,162 (12,816 last year)
Segments: 10 (8 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: none
Most Common Aircraft: A330-200, 747-400, 777-300ER (2 flights each)
Most Common Airline: British Airways (4 segments, United was also four but I the title to BA since it was two separate trips while UA was one)
Most Common Airport: San Diego (4 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Diego-London/Heathrow (4 segments)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=san-lhr;+san-sfo-ams-iad-san;+san-hnl

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Brad

Dec 31, 2019 at 3:21 pm

Miles: 36,267
Segments: 21
New Aircraft: A350
New Airlines: Cathay Pacific, Qantas, KLM, Montenegro Airlines, Lufthansa
New Airports: Cardiff, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Sydney, Amsterdam, Munich, Dubrovnik, Tivat, Bolonga
Most Common Aircraft: A319 (11 Segments)
Most Common Airline: British (6 Segments)
Most Common Airport: Toulouse (5/5)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Toulouse-Gatwick (5 Segments)

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MK03

Dec 31, 2019 at 3:29 pm

Only two flights in 2019: PR MNL-SIN on an A330 and SIN-MNL on an A321. I did ride on a cruise ship though, which is pretty cool.

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Johosofat

Dec 31, 2019 at 4:05 pm

Miles: 120,352 (99,958 last year)
Segments: 111 (117 last year)
25 New Aircraft: Cirrus SR22, A220-300, A220-100, CRJ-100, Aeroprakt A-22, Swearingen Merlin III, IAI Westwind I, DeHavilland DHC-4 Caribou, King Air A90, Boeing Stearman, Beech 99 Airliner, E190-E2, Antonov An-12, 787-10, Miles Messenger, DeHavilland Hornet Moth, Yak-42D, Eurocopter EC130, DeHavilland Dash 7, Guimbal Cabri G2, Cessna Caravan Amphibian, Cirrus SR20, Grumman Gulfstream I, A320neo, Ikarus C42
22 New Airlines: Air Georgian, GoJet, Jet Airways, BA CityFlyer, Wideroe, Rubystar, Jiangxi Air, Izhavia, Nordica, Ryanair UK, Vueling, Monacair, Alitalia, Vietnam Airlines, Air Tindi, Meiya Air, Suparna Airlines, Tianjin Airlines, Phoenix Air, Qingdao Airlines, 9 Air, JSX
27 New Airports: Henderson (NV), Pristina, Podgorica, San Antonio, Addison (TX), Hawthorne (CA), Titusville-Arthur Dunn, Winter Haven, Dunkeswell, Bergen, Liverpool, Nanchang, Old Warden, Izhevsk, Tallinn, Vilnius, Barcelona, Nice, Monte Carlo, Rome (FCO), Abbotsford, Sanya, Tianjin, Beijing-Daxing, Cartersville (GA), Rome (GA), Rizhao
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (16 segments)
Most Common Airline: American (8 segments)
Most Common Airport: Shanghai-Pudong (6 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Chengdu-Shanghai & Shanghai-Los Angeles (3 flights each)

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Brant

Dec 31, 2019 at 4:34 pm

Way more then that but I’m a flight attendant

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ORDFlyer312

Dec 31, 2019 at 5:16 pm

Happy New Year – Cranky!

2019 ended up being a record breaking travel year for me. Thanks to some extended projects across the country and a couple international trips. I also branched out a bit and visited a ton of new airports and took a couple non-Star Alliance flights (Delta, Cathay Pacific and Cape Air).

Miles: 156,923 (107,204 last year)
Segments: 140 (96 last year)
New Aircraft: 737 MAX 8, 787-10, A321, Cessna 402 & Robinson R22
New Airlines: ANA, Cathay Pacific Dragon, Cape Air
New Airports: MIA, SRQ, SBP, MRY, HKG, LGK, PEN, HND, KIX, NRT, PDX, BWI, PBI, TPA, PIT, BVT, MAZ (MAYAGUEZ), SJU AND AVL.
Most Common Aircraft: 737-8 & 900
Most Common Airline: UNITED (136 SEGMENTS)
Most Common Airport: CHICAGO O’HARE (MY SECOND HOME) AND SFO.
Most Common Non-Directional Route: STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS/MEANS :-)
*Longest Flight: HKG-ORD
*Shortest Flight: SJU-MAZ (CAPE AIR!)
*Heaviest Travel Month: JUNE

2020 is already looking to be just as heavy and I have my first flights kicking off tomorrow on 1/1 from PHX-DEN-MSP – all upgraded already, so I hope the momentum keeps up.

Cheers!

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Steve Flyer

Dec 31, 2019 at 6:41 pm

Miles: 123,110 (84,367 last year)
Segments: 95 (84 last year)
New Aircraft: A321
New Airlines: Virgin Atlantic
New Airports: Rarotonga, Adelaide, Everett/Paine
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800, E175 – 17 each
Most Common Airline: Alaska- 37
Most Common Airport: Portland PDX (60 departures arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-LAX

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Bricen

Dec 31, 2019 at 7:43 pm

For me, 2019 was a pretty good year for travel, so so for work. Hoping that 2020 is even better.

Miles: 26,408 (33,261 last year)
Segments: 59 (35 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: Compass Airlines (Delta Connection)
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 717 (52 segments) and Airbus A330-200 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: Hawaiian (58 segments)
Most Common Airport: Honolulu (HNL) and Lihue (LIH)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LIH-HNL

Biggest 2019 travel highlight: Attending my first Cranky Dorkfest and Cranky Dorkfest LAX airfield bus tour and progressive dinner. Thanks Jeff and happy new year to you and everyone. Hope that 2020 brings everyone good health and prosperity.

Bricen

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Floyd Holder

Dec 31, 2019 at 10:49 pm

Here’s mine: [image: image.png] 23 Airports 4 Continents 8 New Airports (CPH, VNO, KEF, DOH, CPT, JNB, LVI, VFA) Most Common Airport: IAH No most common segments.
Most common European Transfer point: DUB (Twice) Most common US transfer point:EWR (Twice) DEN (Twice) Most common ASIAN transfer point:DOH (Twice) New Airlines: South African, Qatar, British Airways South Africa (Comair) SAS, Aer Lingus, Alitalia

It was a great year and I look forward to more!!!!

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jarvis

Jan 1, 2020 at 3:49 am

Miles: 14,505
Segments: 12
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: Baltimore, Oklahoma City, Lawton
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700
Most Common Airline: Southwest (12 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (8 departures/12 arrivals) (Long Beach 3 departures/0 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Los Angeles / Denver (8 segments)

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Ben

Jan 1, 2020 at 3:46 pm

Miles: 430,196
Flights: 360
New Aircraft: Non
New Airlines: Air Tahiti Nui, Empire, Norwegian Long Haul, Omni Air International
New Airports: AUS, BCN, HNL, JHM, OGG, RDU
Most Common Aircraft: A320 – 175 flights
Most Common Airline: Spirit
Most Common Airport: ORD – 216 flights
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-CUN 24 times

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Matt L.

Jan 1, 2020 at 4:42 pm

A record breaking year for me—work kept me on the road a bit more this year than last. Should be interesting to see 2020’s numbers since I’m moving to an internationally focused project this year.

Miles: 53,923 (41,112 last year)
Segments: 42 (33 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: LAX, MSY, MOB, PHL, IAD
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (15 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (all flights)
Most Common Airport: Seattle (14 arrivals/14 departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Seattle – Atlanta (5 segments)

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Luiz

Jan 1, 2020 at 4:47 pm

Happy new year!

Miles: 25,987 (39,491 last year)
Segments: 29 (41 last year)
New Aircraft: A350
New Airlines: Iberia
New Airports: Madrid (MAD), Sevila (SVQ), Belem (BEL), Pelotas (PET)
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (13 segments)
Most Common Airline: Azul (19 segments)
Most Common Airport: Belo Horizonte (CNF) (8 departures / 8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-SDU (4)
Longest Flight: GRU-MAD (5205 miles)
Shortest Flight: POA-PET (137 miles)

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EricG

Jan 1, 2020 at 5:55 pm

Miles Flown: 6758
Segments: 10
New Airlines:0
New Airports: JFK
Most Common Airliner: JetBlue

Happy New Year!

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Trey M.

Jan 1, 2020 at 8:41 pm

2020 will be much leaner as I have stopped making weekly trips from Denver to the Bay Area for work.

Miles: 35,267
Segments: 29 (41 in 2018)
New Aircraft: A340-300, A320NEO
New Airlines: SAS, Eurowings
New Airports: CPH, HAM, ARN
Most Common Aircraft: 757-300 (7 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (24 segments including Express)
Most Common Airport: Denver (12 departures, 12 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-SFO (16 segments)

2019 Travel Highlights: LAX Dorkfest including the airfield tour (my first and hopefully not my last). Also flying SFO-CPH on the SAS A340-300 in Business.

Happy New Year Brett.

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Bobber

Jan 2, 2020 at 2:35 am

Miles: 66,000
Segments: 25
New Aircraft: 737-800, A321neo
New Airlines: Lufthansa
New Airports: Frankfurt, Helsinki, Munich
Most Common Aircraft: 772/773
Most Common Airline: United (19 segments)
Most Common Airport: Heathrow

I’m guessing most of us posting these stats aren’t sufficiently ashamed of our contribution to damaging the climate; but we should be.

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Stan

Jan 2, 2020 at 8:07 am

Miles: 25,891
Segments: 19
New Aircraft: CRJ-900, 787-9
New Airlines: JetSmart and LATAM in Chile, jetBlue, the new and improved Sun Country
New Airports: LAS, GCM, SCL, PUQ
Most Common Aircraft: 5 737-800s: 3 American, 1 Southwest, 1 Sun Country
Most Common Airline: 7 American segments
Most Common Airport: 5 departures and 7 arrivals at DFW
Most Common Non-Directional Route: no repeats because one trip to SDF was from DFW and the other was from DAL.

http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=dfw-bos-dfw,dal-las-dfw,dfw-sdf-dfw,dal-sdf-atl-gcm-dfw,dfw-gsp-atl-dfw,dal-mdw-dal,dfw-scl-puq-scl-dfw&MS=wls&MR=900&MX=540×540&PM=*

Happy New Year

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davidrosen

Jan 2, 2020 at 9:13 am

Miles: 252,000 Segments: 103 New Aircraft: none New Airlines: Scoot New Airports: Granada, Porto Most Common Airline: United 92 Segments Most Common Airport: SFO Most Common Non-Directional Route: LHR SFO

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MeanMeosh

Jan 2, 2020 at 8:33 pm

Miles: 57,209
Segments: 37
New Aircraft: 6 – CRJ-550, CRJ-900, A220-100, 747-8, 747-8i, 737-900
New Airlines: 2 – Air New Zealand, ANA
New Airports: 7 – ITO, SJC, YYZ, YVR, SLC, BUR, BNA
Most Common Aircraft: B738 (6 segments)
Most Common Airline: tie – 8 segments each on DL and WN
Most Common Airport: DFW (7 departures, 5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: 3 way tie – 2 each on LAX-DFW, SJC-DAL, and DFW-LGA

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TC99

Jan 3, 2020 at 12:40 am

Just did one trip this year flying to the Philippines:

Delta FLL-JFK-FLL A321 both directions
Philippine Airlines JFK-MNL-JFK A350-900 both directions
CebuGo MNL-WNP-MNL A72 both directions

New plane A350-900, enjoyed it a lot Premium Economy outbound, Business Inbound

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Michael G

Jan 5, 2020 at 11:44 am

Total Miles: 14,508 (7,344 last year)
Segments: 12
New Airports: ACY, DFW
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Spirit (and I’d fly them again)
Most Common Aircraft: A321 – 6 Segments
Most Common Airline: American – 6 segments
Most Common Airport: PHL

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JohnD

Jan 6, 2020 at 5:46 am

Miles: 200069
Segments: 123
New Aircraft: Fokker 100
New Airlines: Bek Air (first and last time!)
New Airports: Amman, Gdansk, Aruba
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: AGS

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Phllax

Jan 6, 2020 at 11:17 am

32 segments – all personal
3 new airplanes- 737Max8, 787-10 (20 days old), E90
3 new airports – CMH, BNA, NAS
Shortest – LAS-BUR
Longest – LAX-JFK
TWA hotel visit with runway view in October. We had Runway View room 880, and lucky for us they were using 4/22 all weekend, with rotations right in front of the pool!

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Sean

Jan 7, 2020 at 10:36 am

Miles: 38,326 (37,461 last year)
Segments: 51 (46 last year)
New Aircraft: 777-200, A319
New Airlines: United Airlines
New Airports: DCA, DEN
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (24 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (47 flights)
Most Common Airport: Anchorage (18 arrivals / 18 departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ADQ-ANC (11 each way)

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