I’m done for the year, so might as well get this party started. Another year, another weird-looking map. The multiple short haul trips are somewhat obscured by the Atlanta and Kahului runs.
Miles: 15,721 (13,167 last year)
Segments: 20 (26 last year)
New Aircraft: H130, Embraer 195
New Airlines: WestJet, Breeze, IEX Helicopters
New Airports: Monterey, Queen Mary Heliport, Pebbly Beach Seaplane Base, San Bernardino
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (4 flights)
Most Common Airline: American, Southwest (5 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (4 departures/5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Long Beach – Phoenix (4 segments)
How’d you do?
66 comments on “2023 Flying Summary”
Miles: 56,466 (37,933 last year)
Segments: (38 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A330-900, Airbus A321neo, Boeing 787-9
New Airlines: Virgin Atlantic, British Airways
New Airports: London Heathrow, Billund
Most common aircraft: Depends on how you count—CRJ-900 and 757-200 (6 each) or A321 (9; 5 neo/4ceo)
Most common airline: Delta (39 flights)
Most Common Airport: JFK (10 departures/9 arrivals)
Most common non-directional route: JFK-SEA (7 segments)
Left off this years segments: 46
Miles: 112,845 (v. 56,317 last year; first year 100K+ since 2019!)
Segments: 83 (v. 48 last year)
Total Airports: 34 (v. 25 last year)
New Aircraft: A350, Tecnam P2012
New Airlines: Aerolineas Argentinas, Air Canada, LATAM
New Airports: AEP, BHD, EZE, LIM, MDZ
New Routes: AEP-MDZ, CLT-SMF, CPH-ORD, CVG-ORD, DUB-LHR, LHR-BHD, LHR-EWR, LIM-ATL, JFK-EZE, MDZ-LIM, ORD-CVG, ORD-JFK, ORD-YUL, SFO-SNA, YUL-ORD
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (37 segments)
Most Common Airline: American (44 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD (60 total departures/arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-CLT (6 segments)
Miles: 181,661 (125,539 last year)
Segments: 215 (176 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus 220, Airbus H125
New Airlines: Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Air Belgium, Air France Hop, Air Montenegro, Air Mountain, ALK Airlines, AlpAvia, Amelia International, Armenian Airlines, Atlantic Airways, Azerbaijan Airlines, BA Euroflyer, Corendon Airlines, Dan Air, Diamond Sky Aviation, Electra Airways, Emerald Airlines UK, Etihad Airways, Fly Jordan Airlines, Fly Lili, flyadeal, FlyArna, Flynas, FlyOne Romania, Global Crossing Airlines, Héli Sécurité, Hello Jets, HiSky, Jet Netherlands, KlasJet, Nile Air, Nordic Regional Airlines, Royal Jordanian, SalamAir, Silver Air (Czech), Sky Alps, Sunclass Airlines, Transavia Airlines, TUI fly Netherlands, Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, Wizz Air Malta, World2Fly Portugal
New Airports: Abu Dhabi, Alexandria Borg El Arab, Amman Queen Alia, Batumi, Brasov, Cairo, Castres-Mazamet, Elba, Eskisehir, Fujeirah, Gaziantep, Hagfors, Hurghada, Istanbul New, Jeddah, Karlovy Vary, Klaksvik Heliport, Mariehamn, Monte Carlo Heliport, Nis, Ponta Delgada, Radom, Sharm El-Sheik, Skopje, Torshavn, Vagar, Varna, Vila Real
Most Common Aircraft: Airbus 320 (56 flights) – or Airbus A32x family (117 flights)
Most Common Airline: Easyjet (29 segments) or treating all Wizzair-branded airlines as a single carrier (46 segments)
Most Common Airport: London-Luton (23 departures/22 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: London-Luton – Cluj (5 segments)
Miles: 25,129 (36,277 last year)
Segments: 29 (31 last year)
New Aircraft: E170, CRJ200, E170, B737 MAX 8, A321-100, B757-300, B787-8, B787-10, A340-300
New Airlines: ITA Airways
New Airports: Rome/Fiumicino, Venice/Marco Polo
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (14 flights)
Most Common Airport: Chicago/O’Hare (8 Departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSN-ORD
I’m a bit superstitious about recording any flight details before they are flown for fear it will cause those plans to go to pot. So I will cautiously list what I have done this year along with the plan for my last two flights of 2023.
Miles: 25,448 [should be 27,801 before New Year] (8,329 last year)
Segments: 34 [should be 36 before New Year] (13 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A330-900, Airbus A319neo, Eurocopter EC135, Bell 505 JetRanger X, Avicopter AC311
New Airlines: Capital Airlines, China Express, Ruili Airlines, Air Travel, Colorful Guizhou Airlines, Cambodia Airways, MIAT Mongolian Airlines
New Airports: Jieyang (SWA), Foshan (FUO), Meixian (MXZ), Dali (DLU), Phnom Penh (PNH), Siem Reap (REP), Ho Chi Minh City (SGN), Zhuhai-Lianzhou (ZGUH), Ulaanbaatar (UBN), Kunming (KMG)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (9 flights)
Most Common Airline: China Southern (5 segments)
Most Common Airport: Hong Kong (4 departures/5 arrivals) [should be (5/5) before New Year]
Most Common Non-Directional Route: didn’t fly anything multiple times
My last two flights for the year are:
KMG-SZX on Lucky Air tomorrow
HKG-SGN on Greater Bay Airlines before New Year
Both will add as new airlines for my collection.
Miles: 26,349 (25,577 last year)
Segments: 26 (33 last year)
New Aircraft: B737-MAX 8- 200
New Airlines: Condor, Buzz
New Airports: Punta Cana, Nuremburg, Berlin-Brandenburg, Hamburg
Most Common Aircraft: 737-M8 – 12
Most Common Airline: Flair (8)
Most Common Airport: Halifax – 10 departures, 10 arrivals
Most Common Non-Directional Route: YHZ-YOW, YHZ-YYZ each x2
Longest Flight: Halifax-Frankfurt 3,263 mi
Shortest Flight: Krakow-Vienna 199 mi
Miles: 30.120
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: A350-900, A220-100
New Airlines: JetBlue
New Airports: ARN, GLA, BOS, SIN
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (7 Segments)
Most Common Airline: KLM (20 Segments)
Most Common Airport: AMS (10 Departures/10 Arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: HAM-AMS (6 Segments)
Miles: 82,019
Segments: 54
New Airlines: Sri Lankan Airlines, China Airlines, Fly Dubai, Alliance Air
New Airports: CMB, COK, MLE, BOM, DHM,, JDH, MAA, HYD
Most Common Airline: Singapore Airlines (10 sectors)
Most Common Airport: DEL (42 arrivals or departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEL-BKK (7 times)
20,207 miles. Flew a seaplane in Vancouver Harbor. Flew Vueling to Seville. Took a tran from Seville to Paris via Barcalona. Flew Southwest for the first time since the Pandemic. Good times.
Miles: 85,469
Segments: 83
New Aircraft: G550
New Airlines: Icelandair
New Airports: KEF, JFK, CRW, ALB, BUF, MLI, SCF
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (17 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (80 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD (75 takeoff or landing)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-EWR (21 segments)
Drastically lower than last year but good considering this year was all leisure travel
Miles: 39,489 (71,783 last year)
Segments: 40 (87 last year)
New Aircraft: B767-400
New Airlines: ITA Airways, KLM
New Airports: BRU, FCO, MTJ, ZRH, STL, IAD
Most Common Aircraft: xxxx (xx flights)
Most Common Airline: United (15 segments, 21 if you count United Express flights)
Most Common Airport: Austin-Bergstrom (9 departures/10 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AUS-IAH (6 segments)
We’ll see if the work travel picks back up next year but I already have a few fun trips on the books for the first couple months of the year
Been a crazy travel year.
161,675 miles
192 segments
82 different airports
New aircraft type: A380
New airlines: WizzAir, Divi Divi Air, Breeze
New airports: BON, CUR, LGW, NAP, VRB, IAG, EGE, ASE
Total airports in my lifetime: 407
Miles: 55,160 Nautical (41,268 last year)
Segments: 65 (56 last year)
New Airport: BUR
One non-rev trip to SAN. My wife non revved twice before, and stuff happened trying to get home, so we had to break the spell. Actually have a work related trip in Jan, and then we plot a good vacation far away for 2024.
Miles: 5,679
Segments: 14
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: GCM
Most Common Aircraft: CR7
Most Common Airline: American (13 segments)
Most Common Airport: CRW, CLT (5 each)
Another poor year for me. 2024 will bring nearly weekly CRW-CLT trips for work as I transferred. Hopefully get more leisure travel in. Did keep my streak of 15 years straight leaving the country and added Grand Cayman as a new visit.
Light year for me based on segments due to some home renovations that kept me home, but still a great year of flying:
Miles: 119,462 (123,958 last year)
Segments: 85 (112 last year)
New Aircraft: A320neo, ATR 42-500, ATR 72-500, ATR 72-600, A350-900
New Airlines: Sri Lankan, Maldivian, Emirates, Malaysia, Firefly, Singapore, Aegean, GOL, LATAM, Qantas, Sky Express, JetBlue
New Airports: MLE, GKK, KUL, SZB, XSP, SIN, EWR, CSG, FLL, PBI, ILG, GRU, CGH, IGU, ATH, JTR, JNX, ARI, ANF, YYC, TYS, ALW, LFT, BTV, SYD, MEL
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800 (19 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (62 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (26 departures/28 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AUS-DFW (5 segments)
Miles: 78936
Segments: 103
New Aircraft: 787-9
New Airlines: Spirit, Alaska mainline (flew Horizon before)
New Airports: HSV, IDA, IND, SDF, PSC, BDL, KIN, FLL, DUB,
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 and A319/320
Most Common Airline: United (91 segments including regional)
Most Common Airport: ORD (check the handle)
Most Common Route: ORD – YYZ (8 segments)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD – ATL (6 segments)
Shortest Non-Directional Route: FLL-KIN (600 miles)
Forgot:
Shortest Route: SFO – FAT (158 miles), which might also qualify for Shortest Non-Directional Route (which I took as being primarily non-east-west)
I believe it means non directional in the sense that ORD-DFW is the same as DFW-ORD for the count, etc.
Thank you for the explanation. I didn’t bother to go bi-directional on my measurements, so my shortest bi-directional would probably end up being ORD-ATL.
Not quite done for the year, but here’s what it will look like assuming next week’s flights take place as planned:
Miles: 35,023 (last year: 22,721)
Segments: 17 (3)
New Aircraft: 737 Max 8
New Airlines: Turkish
New Airports: Albuquerque, Athens, Dallas Love, Istanbul
Most Common Aircraft: 737 Max 8 (6 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (10 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (5 departures, 6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-IST, IST-ATH, LAX-MCI (2 segments each)
Miles: 24,660 (20,086 in 2022)
Segments: 21 (18)
New Aircraft: 737-900, 321neo
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (5 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (10 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (5 departures, 5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-ORD (2 segments)
Longest Segment: LAX-HNL (2,681 miles)
Shortest Segment: LIH-HNL (108 miles)
Miles: 73,000
Segments: 53
New Aircraft: Airbus 350
New Airlines: Aerolineas Argentina, Turkish
New Airports: Norfolk, Buenos Aires (AEP), Iguazu Falls (IGU, Iguazu Falls (IGR), Sao Paulo (GRU), Manaus, Rio (SDU), Rio (GIG), Istanbul
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: SkyWest (8 flights), DL (14 flights)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (17 departures, 17 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Los Angeles – Atlanta (6 flights)
Sad year for me, my travel plans got cancelled so one business trip TPA-ATL-TPA on WN was all I had. One of them was on my first 737MAX, so there’s that at least, although I couldn’t tell the difference between it and all the previous late-model 737s I’ve flown on before.
*sigh*
Other than safety cards, the telltale sign that you’re on a MAX8 on WN vs. the standard -800 is deeper colors on the mood lighting. There’s other stuff like ViaSat WiFi or larger bins but those aren’t consistent across all MAXes, and maybe the bin retrofits apply to -800s as well?
Miles: 74,633
Segments: 40
New Aircraft: 717
New Airlines: none
New Airports: IST
Most common aircraft: 763
Most common airline: United
Most Common Airport: LHR/DTW
Miles: 51,304 (13,167 last year)
Segments: 39 (26 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: ANA, Qantas
New Airports: Haneda, Sydney, Melbourne
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 (13 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (22 segments)
Most Common Airport: Reno (14 departures and 14 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Reno – Las Vegas (17 segments)
Forgot to update last year:
Miles last year: 35,367
Segments last year: 34
Miles: 40, 347
Segments: 24
New Aircraft: A330-300, 737-9 MAX, 787-9
New Airlines: JAL
New Airports: Monterey, AMS, CDG, KIX
Most Common Aircraft: A220-100 and E175 (4 segments each)
Most Common Airline: Delta (16 segments)
Most Common Airport: SJC (5 departures, 6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SJC – SEA (6 segments)
Also A321-ceo as a new aircraft for me.
Miles: 67,779 (47,627 PY)
Segments: 39 (32 PY)
New aircraft: A330-900neo
New airlines: Aerolinas Argentinas, Air Tahiti, Air Tahiti Nui, Ethiopian, LATAM
New airports: GLA (Glasgow), SVQ (Sevilla), BDL, PPT (Tahiti), HUH (Huahine, French Polynesia), MXP, EZE, AEP (Buenos Aires – Jorge Newberry), USH (Ushuaia, Argentina), PUQ (Punta Arenas, Chile)
Most common aircraft: B737-800 (18 segments)
Most common airline: WN by segments (9), AA by mileage (14,021)
Most common airport: DFW (6 departures/5 arrivals)
Most common non-directional route: tie between DAL-BWI, BWI-BOS, PPT-HUH, and DAL-LAS (2 each). In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve screwed this one up every year I’ve done it so far, but I think I got it right this time.
Additional useless factoids (though maybe not since this is a site for avgeeks):
Shortest route – HUH-PPT (111 miles)
Longest route – DFW-EZE (5,302 miles)
Total flight time – 154 hours 38 minutes
Total airports: 31
Total airlines: 18
You have many of the same new airports that I did. Did you go to Antarctica?
Didn’t make it to Antarctica, but did take a cruise through Patagonia around Cape Horn (Ushuaia – Punta Arenas). I looked into an Antarctica cruise, but nothing worked with my kid’s school holiday schedule.
79,861 miles
51 segments
10 airlines
14 countries
Miles: 18,377 (26,508 last year)
Segments: 14 (27 last year)
New Aircraft: A330, A350
New Airlines: Finnair, Nordic Regional
New Airports: Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (I didn’t track variants)
Most Common Airline: Alaska, Southwest (5 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Sacramento
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Sacramento-Denver (4 segments)
70,341 Miles
77 segments
12 Airlines
9 Countries
Miles: 52,123
Segments: 53
New airlines: Aerolineas Argentinas (lucky me), Croatia Airlines
New airports: Buenos Aires Ezeiza and Aerpoarque; Iguazu Falls; Ushuaia; Mexico City; Split; Munich; Fargo; Portland
Most common route: STL (home) JAX (10 segments)
New airports: BUR, MCI (if the new terminal in KC counts)
New aircraft: 737-MAX8 (finally, just wish it was for longer than 45 minutes from STL-BNA)
Most common route: Tie between ICT-DEN, ICT-STL
Most common airline: Southwest
No flying this year or last year.
Miles: 62,120 (40,028 last year)
Segments: 65 (42 last year)
New Aircraft: B78-9, PC12, A320Neo, A223
New Airlines: 9X (Southern) G4 (Allegiant) NS (Spirit), U2 (EeeeasssyyyyyJet)
New Airports: RAP, CDR, AZA, PHX, AMS, FCO, CTA, NAP, SGF, SUN, PBI.
Most Common Aircraft: E175 (15 Segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta (35 – They could have had the rest, but they decided I was a worthless customer ;-))
Most Common Airport: ATL (Somehow edging out my home airport…?)
Useless trivia:
Average Segment Length: 956 miles
Shortest Segment Length: 83 miles
Longest Segment Length: 4,800 miles
Miles: 49,628 (43,499 last year)
Segments: 21 (16 last year)
New Aircraft: A350-900, 737 MAX 9, CRJ-550
New Airlines: GoJet Airlines
New Airports: Hayden/Steamboat Springs
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (6 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: San Diego (8 departures/8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Diego – Baltimore (5 segments)
Counting a trip mid to end of next week:
Miles: 75,555 (74,811 last year)
Segments: 39 (35 last year)
New Aircraft: A321neo ACF
New Airlines: Thai Airways, EVA Air
New Airports: ORD, DAL, BKK, TPE, SEA, CTG
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900ER (8 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (20 flights, including 3 operated by SkyWest and 2 operated by Horizon)
Most Common Airport: BOS (11 departures/11 arrivals) and SFO (12 departures/10 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BOS-SFO (12 segments)
Shortest Segment: JFK-BOS (187 miles)
Longest Segment: LAX-DOH (8,306 miles)
Average Segment Length: 1,937 miles
Total Flight Time: 179h 36m
Miles – 22,660
Segments 12
New airports ORD, ADL
Most common airline: VA, AC
Most common airport: MEL
Shortest segment: CLE-IAD
Longest segment IAD-CLE (cancelled, had to drive… ha)
Quiet year, just one trip to the US. I’ve got 20,623 booked for travel in the next two months, and hopefully a trip to Europe to add to that.
Miles: 47,193
Segments: 66
New Aircraft: –
New Airlines: –
New Airports: Newark, Fairbanks, Santa Rosa, Orlando
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700
Most Common Airline: Southwest
Most Common Airport: San Diego
Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Diego – San Jose (16 segments)
Miles: 34,515
Segments: 19
New airlines: Jetstar (Asia)
New aircraft: A321neo (AA)
New airports: AOJ, KMJ, HDY
Most common airline: ANA (8)
Most common aircraft: 787 (5)
Most common airport: HND, ITM, BKK (8 each)
Miles: 27,879 (84,791 last year)
Segments: 27 (71 last year)
New Aircraft: Boeing 787-9, 737 MAX 8
New Airlines: Binter Canarias, Air France, HelloJets
New Airports: Torino, Las Palmas, Tenerife Norte, Comiso, Paris/CDG, Budapest, Imperatriz
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (6 flights)
Most Common Airline: LATAM (6 segments)
Most Common Airport: Rome/Fiumicino (5 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: FCO-CIY, FCO-BUD, CGH-CNF (3 segments)
This was my first year in many years with no flights at all.
Miles: 106,397 (111,748 last year)
Segments: 67 (79 last year)
New Aircraft: 747-8i (checked flying a 747 off my bucket list!)
New Airlines: KE (Korean Air), OU (Croatia Airlines)
New Airports: SAV, SLC, EZE, KIX, DBV, GMP, YVR, RDU
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (10 segments) / 777-200ER (22,322 miles)
Most Common Airline: United (55 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD (25 departures / 24 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DCA – ORD (11 segments)
Have another trip on the books prior to year-end but excluding from stats until it’s flown!
Miles: 6713
Segments: 12
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: BUF, GPT, LGA, MSY
Most Common Aircraft: B717
Most Common Airline: DL
Most Common Airport: MSN
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSN-ATL
Miles: 67,333 (57,248 last year)
Segments: 50 (38 last year)
New Aircraft: A321neo, Bell 407
New Airlines: BLADE Helicopters
New Airports: Blade Lounge West
Most Common Aircraft: 757-200 (7 flights)
Most Common Delta (42 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (33 segments)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-DTW; LAX-ATL (12 segments/each)
Miles: 33,397 (25,274 last year). – not bad for all personal travel (minus Berlinale roundtrip)
Segments: 18 (24 last year)
New Aircraft: 737-MAX 9
New Airlines: SKY (SCL-EZE), Norse (MCO-LGW) Norweigian (LGW-ARN) Wamos operating for Avianca on LAX-BOG
New Airports: Arequipa AQP, Cuzco CUZ, Juliaca / Puno – Lake Titicaca JUL, Peru
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (8 flights), 737’s (4 flights)
Most Common Airline: British Airways (4 flights), Copa (4 flights), American (3 flights), LATAM (3 flights)
Most Common Airport: London (6) Los Angeles (4) Lima (4)
Most Northenly Airport: ARN
Most Southernly Airport: MVD
Best Flights: IB A330 LHR-MAD Business class, AA 777-300ER LHR-LAX Premium Econ
Worst Flights: CM 737-Max 9 MVD-PTY Economy, Norse 787-9 MCO-LGW Economy (More the airport experience than the flight itself, which was shockingly fine, and decent Y class food)
What did I miss the most in 2023 – First and Business class
What was surprising?: I can cope in Economy if I plan ahead.
Nice surprise: Boarding a LATAM flight through the rear door and standing next to the tail (a first)
Most Shocking thing seen on a flight?: CM MDE-PTY – a woman in 10-inch heels to please her suga papa. She seemed nice, but in an emergency – hmmm. OH, obviously she was sitting in the exit row.
Best airport experience: SCL and LAX (I know, but I am one of the few that absolutely loves my adopted home airport) BER is gorgeous!
Worst airport experience: MAD Terminal 4 – One of the most gorgeous terminals, but it’s overbuilt, and the amount of walking is ridiculous. LHR Terminal 5 is just awful.
Weird airport experience: AQP – LATAM shake down the whole flight at the gate, person by person, and oh my, you’ve never seen so many vampires in one place. Yes, vampires are real (do not think movies – directly).
Oops – Segments 24 this year
Felt like a lot more.
Miles: 35,826 (26,716 last year)
Segments: 28 (16 last year)
New Aircraft: Embraer 195 – E2
New Airlines: none
New Airports: Calgary (YYC), Edmonton (YEG), Santarem (STM)
Most Common Aircraft: A320 and A321 (7 segments each)
Most Common Airline: Azul (11 segments)
Most Common Airport: Belo Horizonte (CNF) (6 departures / 7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-GRU and CNF-SSA (4 segments each)
Longest Flight: GRU-DFW (35,826 miles)
Shortest Flight: PET-POA (127 miles)
Miles: 75,380
Segments: 71
New Aircraft: none (but my wife got to fly a Cape Air Tecnam)
New Airlines: None
New Airports: TLV, PSP
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (many types)
Most Common Airline: United (67 segments)
Most Common Airport: IAH
Most Common Route: IAH-CVG
Actually, for new aircraft, I had one flight each on the 787-8 and 787-10, therefore completing the 787 trifecta.
Miles: 87,112 (84,511 last year)
Segments: 78 (72 last year)
New Aircraft: H130, Embraer 195
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Chattanooga, Barcelona
Most Common Aircraft: E175 (20 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (43 segments)
Most Common Airport: PDX Portland (55 departures & arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-LAX (6 Segments)
Happy New Year, Cranky! You caught me off guard with the early travel summary!
Miles: 60.888 (52,671 last year)
Segments: 28 (29 last year)
New Aircraft: A350, B787-9
New Airlines: Finnair (AY operated a flight for BA)
New Airports: ATL (Atlanta)
Most Common Aircraft: B737 (-700, -800, -MAX8)
Most Common Airline: American Airlines (13 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-LHR (6 flights) and BUR-LAS (6 flights)
Cheers to 2024!
If it wasn’t for Dorkfest I would have been grounded the whole year. That’s depressing.
Now that my air travel is done for the rest of the year…
Miles: 55,651 (32,140 last year)
Segments: 43 (36 last year)
One-way flights, ignoring connections: 37* (30 last year; asterisk is due to considering overnight self-connect at LAX a connection)
New Aircraft: A350-900, 737-MAX9, maybe 320neo? (hard to tell on NK)
New Airline: Spirit
New Airports: Key West (EYW), Tel Aviv (TLV)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700/800/900ER/MAX8/MAX9 (~24 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (20 segments)
Most Common Airport: Austin (17 departures, 18 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AUS-ABQ (16 segments)
Of the 737 flights, the MAX9 was United (last-minute equipment swap during the late-June snafu), the 900ER was Delta, a couple -800s were AA (might be off by one or two in favor of 319s), and the rest were WN, with an increasing share of -800/MAX8. I don’t think the -800 was my most-flown 737 variant, but unlike previous years it got close.
This was my first time at MCI since the new terminal went live (last time was 2011 I think), and first time at HOU since 2011.
Last year I predicted I’d fly less in 2023 than in 2022. I was wrong again; 2023 was my highest segment count and mile count ever, albeit still with no A220. Next year I should, for real this time, have fewer segments and miles, but will be flying a new aircraft type (A330-900neo) to a new destination (HND) at least, so that’s cool.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=abq-aus-lhr-aus-abq-aus-abq-aus-mia,eyw-mia-aus-abq-aus-ord-aus-abq-aus-mci-aus-den-aus,dfw-atl-tlv-atl-abq-aus-abq-aus-lax-aus-abq-aus-lax-ogg-lax-aus-abq-hou-aus-atl-aus-stl-aus-abq
Traversed 79,912 miles across 43 sectors, with the trusty 737-800 being my frequent companion. Explored new horizons at San Jose and Wilmington airports. Grateful for the seamless journeys with AA being the common carrier.
Miles: 49,639 (60,093 last year)
Segments: 52 (50 last year)
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: N/A
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-700 (19 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (39 flights)
Most Common Airport: Denver (20 Departures/20 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-OAK
Miles: 135,162 (88,172 last year)
Segments: 90 (55 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: TAP Air Portugal, British Airways, Iberia
New Airports: Too many to list… Notable ones: OPO, MRY, JAC, MLM, RDM, BUD, SYD, SCL
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (25 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (81 flights)
Most Common Airport: Dallas/Fort Worth (63 flights)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Dallas/Fort Worth – Austin (7 flights, 6 flights AUS-DFW)
Miles: 8,195 (5,410 last year, highest since 2019)
Segments: 11 (4 last year)
New Aircraft: Boeing 737 Max8
New Airlines: Frontier (it’s fine)
New Airports: STL
Most common aircraft: A320
Most common airline: Frontier/Southwest (4 each)
Most Common Airport: PHL (10 departures/9 arrivals)
Miles: 57,939 (59,029 last year)
Segments: 32 (38 last year)
New Aircraft: 7M9, A359
New Airlines: Pegasus, FlyBaghdad, Air New Zealand
New Airports: IST,BGW, EBL, CHC
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800
Most Common Airline: WestJet
Most Common Airport: YYC
Most Common Non-Directional Route: JFK-YYC
Miles: 4,063 (14,789 last year) My son was born on 1/15, so two trips with him happened in the summer/fall.
Segments: 5 (16 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Breeze, Envoy, Republic (for Delta)
New Airports: Hilton Head (shortest runway to date)
Most Common Aircraft: A220-300, E175 (no new types)
Most Common Airline: operating carrier-Breeze (2) marketing carrier- Breeze & American (2 each)
Most Common Airport: Providence (2 departures/1 arrival)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Providence-Tampa