It’s time to look back at my year of flying, and it was a good one. I finally crossed an ocean again for the first time in awhile. The biggest shame of the year is that I had no new aircraft to report. Also, I had to fly out of LAX far too often. Next year, I’m hoping for more Long Beach.
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Miles: 25,723 (15,721 last year)
Segments: 20 (20 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Amelia, Zeppelin NT
New Airports: Prague, Friedrichschafen (though not in the terminal, this was the Zeppelin)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 (4 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (5 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (7 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Long Beach – Oakland (3 segments)
How’d you do?
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Miles: 92,786
Segments: 51
Most common airport: DTW
Most common plane: 767-300 (probably), maybe E-175
New airports: LYS, CHQ, HAM, VCE
New airline: Ryanair
This year was a biggie for me – reaching Million Mile status with United. I wasn’t expecting the full George Clooney experience, as others online have been very underwhelmed upon reaching this milestone, but personally I felt very valued by United – the gate staff at DTW had decorated the departure gate, bought me a gift, made an announcement and let me board before anyone else (screw you, Global Services members!!), and when I connected in ORD for my flight to LHR, the pilot came down from the flight deck and chatted with me at my seat and brought me some goodies. No upgrade, no champagne (both would have been nice instead of Economy Plus), but I was definitely made to feel special, at least for one day.
Other highlights were two beautiful rides in LH’s A340-300 (very retro) and their A380 – it was worth the indignity of connecting from EWR to JFK just to travel on the A380; I love flying on that plane. And the main lowlight was finally being exposed to Ryanair – Jesus wept.
That’s awesome United recognized you like that! When I hit 1 MM on United in 2014, there was nothing. I received a congratulatory e-mail and my desktop glass plaque a short while later, but no acknowledgement on board on that segment (I think it was ORD to BTV) or a few weeks later when I flew to Japan. Congratulations!
I had that same non-experience. Don’t even recall what the route was given there was no celebration. But that was about ten years ago, so perhaps UA has nowadays established a process for this. Seems … like a low hanging marketing fruit.
I still like my UA MM status even though I don’t fly UA much anymore (added about 150,000 miles in those ten years, so 2MM will happen…. never).
I had a similar non-experience to what you both did when I achieved 2 MM status on United back in March 2020.
About the only thing that changed is that I was recognized on the 1 K line and occasionally by the FA’s (when they took my meal order in first) for being 2 MM.
Now if I only live to be 100, I may be able to make 3MM and 1 K for life LOL
Congrats @Bobber… looks like you reached 1MM status at a time when United is doing what they should do to recognize road warriors for their loyalty flying.
@Keith, @Oliver and @Hajime – sorry they didn’t properly celebrate your achievement; your experience sounds very familiar to others I had read about online. I’m guessing that UA ground crew at DTW don’t get to celebrate too many of these milestones – or maybe they’re just nice people anyway! It took me 20 years, however – all but 4 of those years I was living in the UK, and there’s not a tonne of United flights in and around Europe that originate from LHR (there was one LHR-BRU service for a while…), so I had to rely on work trips to the US.
Based on a conversation with a station supervisor: Every day each station receives a list of passengers who will be reaching a MM milestone. It is up to each station on how they want to do the celebration.
At hubs it’s usually the GA, station supervisor/manager, and the Captain of the flight presenting the MM certificate, challenge coin, and any additional gifts (e.g., ORD handed out a box of chocolate). At outstations, like LAS, they have unique gifts, like a MM casino chip from LAS.
@Oliver, I too have slowed my pace since hitting 1MM (1986-2014). I’ve added not quite 200,000 miles since hitting 1MM in 2014. Most of my flying is LAX-BOS, as I live in the LA area and grew up in Boston, so lots of visiting friends and family. One would think both airports having a decent UA presence could organize something to recognize a MM threshold. But then maybe that’s new since we hit 1 MM.
Pretty quiet year for me as real life (and a few road trips) kept me mostly on the ground. We’ll see what 2025 has in store.
Miles: 9377
Segments: 8
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: PVR, AUA
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900
Most Common Airline: DL
Most Common Airport: MSN
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSN-ATL
Flying Summary
Happy New Year, Cranky!
Miles: 41,199 (60.888 last year)
?Segments: 23 (28 last year)
?New Aircraft: None but I did get to fly on a Q400?
New Airlines: Croatian Airlines (OU) ?New Airports: LJU (Ljubljana), ZAG (Zagreb), DBV (Dubrovnik), SPU (Split), HEL (Helsinki), HNL (Honolulu), COS (Colorado Springs)
?Most Common Aircraft: B737?
Most Common Airline: American Airlines (10 segments)?
Most Common Airport: LAX & BUR (9 times each)?
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-LHR (3 flights)
?Cheers to 2025!
Miles: 16,036 (last year: 35,023)
Segments: 10 (17)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: New Orleans
Most Common Aircraft: 737 Max 8 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (7 segments)
Most Common Airport: Long Beach, Kansas City (2 departures, 2 arrivals each)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Long Beach – Kansas City (2 segments)
I did what I could to support the LGB–MCI route while it’s still alive, though with less than daily operation, I had to find a different way to return from Kansas City on both of my trips. This was also one of those rare years of more LGB flying than LAX.
Miles: 33,807
Segments: 39
New Aircraft: E195-E2
New Airlines: Air Canada Rouge
New Airports: YMM (Fort McMurray), CCC (Cayo Coco), YXS (Prince George), YZF (Yellowknife), RDU (Raleigh-Durham)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: WestJet (14 Segments /// 19 including Encore)
Most Common Airport: Halifax (10 departures/10 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Halifax – Toronto Pearson (10 segments)
Longest flight: YYC-YHZ – 2,333 miles
Shortest flight: YEG-YYC – 152 miles
Non flying aviation highlight – tour of Buffalo Airways hangar in Yellowknife and seeing all the Ice Pilots NWT planes up close. Even my wife enjoyed it and she is screamingly indifferent about aviation
Fairly dull year for me. But a couple of highlights:
New airline: Cape Air
New aircraft: Tecnam P2012 Traveler, Cessna 402 (both cool, liked the Tecnam more)
New airport: HYA
New route: HYA-BOS
Random other: first time in the new satellite concourse at BNA is the nicest satellite I’ve ever been in.
I flew B6 out of terminal C in BOS recently and the Cape Air planes on the ramp caught my eye.
I immediately looked up Cape Air’s fleet to identify the plane (Tecnam) with the beautiful curves. That plane reminds me a little of the Connie / Super Connie (my favorite models of airliner), and online photos don’t do it justice compared to seeing it from the terminal window.
B6 and Cape Air interline and I’ve flown them on the same trip before, it works well. Agree on the Tecnam. Cool plane. Inside is a miniature airliner experience, decent seats, individual lights, vents, cup holders. 9 seats. I’m a private pilot so I loved my excellent view of the cockpit. Evening visual approach into 4R provided an amazing skyline view of the city. Most memorable trip segment of the year.
Thanks for the info.
I can’t justify the cost of a trip on Cape Air just to take it, especially when it wouldn’t save me much time (if any) vs road/ferry, given where I live in the Northeast. Cape Air’s destinations also aren’t really places I care much about visiting.
That said, I absolutely LOVE stories of people flying on smaller commercial airliners, and I am SO glad there is still a market for airlines flying scheduled service in planes smaller than RJs.
I relish the rare occasions in the past when I have been able to do a flight on a small plane as a pax. Like you, I try to get a front seat so that I can look over the pilot’s/(s’) shoulders and out the cockpit window, and enjoy small things that differentiate the experience of flying on a smaller plane, like the bumps along the way and the fumes on the tarmac as one boards & deboards. Good times, glad you enjoyed your experience!
No new aircraft type but Zeppelin as new airline ?!?
Chris – Yes! Back in 2009, I flew on Airship Ventures in Long Beach: https://crankyflier.com/2009/05/26/zeppelin-ride-above-long-beach-trip-report/
They are out of business now, but it was the same time of Zeppelin.
I still regret never going down to Moffett field for a Zeppelin flight when they were operating in the Bay Area. Guess I now have to go to Friedrichshafen one of these days…
Busy busy year.
191 segments
159,345 miles
90 different airports
39 states
3 countries
New airline; Aerolineas Argentinas
New plane: 220-100
Now flown into 410 different airports
Left out new airports
EZE
AEP
IGR
SCL
JNU
USA
Miles: 28,943 (29,122 last year)
Segments: 24 (8 last year)
New Aircraft: E290
New Airlines: Scoot, Bangkok Airways, Air Caledonie International, Iberworld Airlines
New Airports: NOU, GEA, ILP, USM, WLG, CBR, ZQNLGK
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: Qantas (7 segments)
Most Common Airport: Melbourne (9 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Melbourne – Sydney (3 segments)
Happy New Year!
Miles: 39,790 (35,826 last year)
Segments: 26 (28 last year)
New Aircraft: A330 – Neo
New Airlines: Etihad
New Airports: Milan (MXP), Rome (FCO), Abu Dhabi (AUH)
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (11 segments)
Most Common Airline: LATAM (17 segments)
Most Common Airport: Belo Horizonte (CNF) (7 departures / 7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-GRU and CNF-BSB (5 segments each)
Longest Flight: GRU-BCN (5,443 miles)
Shortest Flight: CNF-GRU (308 miles)
Quiet year but a number of firsts!
Flights: 8 :(
States: 5
Countries Flown: 3
Countries Visited: 5 (2 New)
Cruises: 1
Resorts: 1
Firsts:
> Spain (Madrid, Toledo, Valencia, Barcelona); Gibraltar; Marcelles (FR) and Genoa (IT)
> 777-200ER (Flagship Business)
> 787-8 (Flagship Business)
> Sun Princess #3 (Sanctuary Class)
> Lodge at Emerald Valley / Broadmoor in Colorado Springs
Vacation Days: 24
Looking forward next year for Ireland, Caribbean (ABC Cruise), trips to St. Louis, Minneapolis and South Carolina for starters.
Happy 2025 and safe travels everyone!
Miles: 37,795 (57,939 last year)
Segments: 23 (32 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Bangkok Airways, China Airlines
New Airports: Koh Samui (USM), Phuket (HKT), Kuala Lumpur (KUL), Taipei (TPE), Curaçao (CUR), Aruba (AUA), Deer Lake (YDF), Yellowknife (YZF)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 / 737-8 (5 segments each)
Most Common Airline: WestJet (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: Calgary (10 departures / arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: None
Traded some of my time in the air for time on the road this year with a two Canadian province, 11 US state road trip that spanned six days and 1,350 miles. The road trip also provided an unplanned opportunity to visit the very well-done Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, PA.
Commercial:
89,890 miles
53 segments
9 airlines
14 countries, 5 continents
most common aircraft 737NG family
General Aviation:
19 segments
most common aircraft PA28
Miles: 118,478 [113,852 last year]
Segments: 89 [85 last year]
New Aircraft: CRJ-550
New Airlines: Swiss, Edelweiss, Austrian
New Airports: Vienna (VIE), Zurich (ZRH), Geneva (GVA), Kalamazoo (AZO)
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (53 segments)
Most Common Airline: United and American (28 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Chicago O’Hare (ORD) (72 combined arrivals/departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Chicago O’Hare (ORD)-Orlando (MCO) (26 segments)
New Routes: CPH-CDG, GVA-CPH, ORD-ZUR, ZUR-VIE, VIE-ORD, MCO-IAD, MCO-SEA, CLT-DAB
ZRH, not ZUR (duh).
Miles: 63,574 (86,763 last year)
Segments: 67
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer E175 (30 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (56 segments)
Most Common Airport: Portland PDX (20 departures/20 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Portland-Seattle (8 segments)
12 flights totaling 34,364.
SFO to Toronto, London, Singapore, Bangkok and some domestic trips.
Miles: 68,560
Segments: 45
New airlines: ANA; Avianca
New airports: San Juan; Quito; Guayaquil; Galapagos
Most common route: St Louis Jacksonville, 6 segments
Lousiest layover: An unplanned overnight at the Miami Int’l Airport Hotel. Yecch.
This was a quiet year with 12 trips from home and back in 2024 compared to my usual 30+ trips per year. Didn’t keep track of mileage.
SBA home airport and used the most in 2024 compared to pre pandemic primarily using LAX.
New Airports: CPH, MUC & LGA (usually do JFK or EWR).
Most used connecting airport: LAS – Thank you SWA
New Aircraft: Airbus A350 and A320N.
Most aircraft flown on: SWA 737-700
Types of aircraft flown from beginning and end of trips, number & airlines:
737-700 – 8x SWA
737-800 – 5x SWA
737-900 – 2x DL
767-300 – 1x DL
A220 – 5x DL
A319 – 4x UA & DL
A320N – 1x SAS
A321CEO – 3x DL
A321N – 2x DL
A350 – 2x SAS
E175 – 1 x UAX
E190 – 1 x SAS
Happy New Year!
Miles: 29,240
Segments: 31
Domestic: all
Time Zones Visited: 5
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: KAMA
Most Common Aircraft: 737
Most Common Airline: UA 30 Segments
Mainline: 27
Upgrades: a lucky couple of segments
Regional: 4
Dreaded CRJ-200: 2 UGH!
Most Common Airport: DEN – all trips started and ended in DEN
Longest Flight: DEN-ANC 2405 miles
Shortest Flight: DEN-AMA 359 miles
Average Flight: 943 miles
Miles: 53,829 (67,779)
Segments: 31 (39)
New Aircraft: B737 MAX9
New Airlines: China Airlines, Etihad, JAL
New Airports: TSA, GMP, AUH, YQB, YUL
Most Common Aircraft: A321 CEO (6 flights)
Most Common Airline: AA (14 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (6 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-DFW (2 segments)
Miles: 22,147
Segments: 12
New Airlines: F9, QV
No new aircraft
New Airports: KHH, LPQ, FLL
Most common airline: CX, TG, JL, B6 (2 each)
Most common airport: BKK
Most common aircraft: A320 family (5)
Not that much flying, but I actually traveled almost as many miles on Amtrak this year as flights.
Due to an eventful year on the home front I only managed one trip:
STL-BNA-SAV-BNA-STL
Southwest
Miles: 689
New airport: SAV
New a/c type: 737-8MAX
Happy new year, Cranky. Here’s what my year looked like:
Miles: 95,011 (88,887 last year)
Segments: 48 (45 last year)
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: Corfu CFU, Langkawi LGK, Phnom Penh PNH, Taipei TPE, Taipei TSE
Most Common Aircraft: 787-9 (12 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (16 segments)
Most Common Airport: Washington Dulles IAD (8 departures/8 arrivals)
Milestone: Million Miler status with United
Miles: 54,180 (49,628 last year)
Segments: 21 (21 last year)
New Aircraft: A320neo, A330-900neo
New Airlines: None
New Airports: TUS (Tucson)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700, A321-200 (4 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (8 segments)
Most Common Airport: San Diego (7 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Diego – Baltimore (4 segments)
Notable achievement: First around the would trip (SAN-SEA-TPE-LHR-SAN)
No flights this year, but ready to buy Dorkfest ’25 tickets as soon as possible!
Seems like a fairly slow year, but it really wasn’t. First visit to Europe and several new U.S. destinations.
New Aircraft: 787, finally (American) and Southwest 737-Max 8 with the in-seat USBC power ports
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: RNO, CLT, MUC, ZRH, PHL, SLC (the new terminal, anyway), MSY
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700/800
Most Common Airline: WN
Most Common Airport: ICT
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-ABQ (3 segments)
Miles: 21,759 (24,660 in 2023)
Segments: (14)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: A330-200 (4 of 14 segments)
Most Common Airline: Hawaiian (6/14)
Most Common Airport: LAX (4 departures, 4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-ORD (2 segments)
Longest Segment: LAX-HNL (2,728 miles)
Shortest Segment: HNL-ITO (254 miles)
D’oh! 14 segments in 2024; 21 in 2023
Happy New Year Brett and everyone! Another average year for me.
2024:
Miles: 31,393 (35,874 last year)
Segments: 22 (22 last year)
New Aircraft: E190
New Airlines: None
New Airports: KIX, LCY, EDI, GVA
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (8 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (6 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (14)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: n/a – no repeats this year
Miles: 38,418 (18,377 last year)
Segments: 26 (14 last year)
New Aircraft: 787
New Airlines: SWISS, Air New Zealand
New Airports: Zurich, Austin, Auckland, Queenstown, NZ
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (16 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (15 segments)
Most Common Airport: Sacramento (7 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Sacramento – San Diego (4 segments)
Miles: 50,480 (51,417 last year)
Segments: 41 (41 last year)
New Aircraft: A359
New Airlines: Malaysia, JAL, Austrian
New Airports: SEA, NRT, KUL, SIN, HAJ, VIE
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700, 737-800 (11 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (25 segments)
Most Common Airport: RNO (15 departures/15 arrivals)
There are dozens of us! (Seriously, though, I think there are at least half a dozen Erics who regularly post here, maybe more.)
Miles: 33,087
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: 777-300ER, 717-200
New Airlines: AF, AM
New Airports: CDG, DTW, CLT, GDL, SMF, BUF, RIC (divert, never left the plane)
Most Common Aircraft: A321 (5 ceo + 3 neo)
Most Common Airline: F9 (7 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (6 dep/5 arr)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LGB-SJC (4 segments)
Long time lurker, first time commenter. Probably broke my record this year!
Miles: 28,794
Segments: 12
New Aircraft: 777-200 (United high density ver), 737 Max 8
New Airlines: Zipair, EVA Air
New Airports: AUS, IAH, DCA, HKG, TPE
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 (3 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (6 segments)
Most Common Airport: San Francisco (4 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: 12-way tie
Thank you Brett & CF team for all the great content. Happy New Year to all!
A very unimpressive year with a downturn in business travel, even with a trip to Ireland that gave me a new airport! Please indulge me as I added 2023 since I forgot to do it last year…
2024
Miles: 10,613 (21,880 last year)
Segments: 7 (21 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Dublin
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (4 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: Tampa (2 departures/1 arrival)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Tampa – Newark (2 segments)
2023
Miles: 21,880 (6,540 last year)
Segments: 24 (8 last year)
New Aircraft: 737-MAX8
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Kansas City (MCI) – Old Terminal
Most Common Aircraft: Tied – 737-800 (5 flights) and 737-900 (5 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (10 segments)
Most Common Airport: Tampa (5 departures/8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Tampa – Los Angeles (4 segments)
Miles: 102,428
Segments: 108
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Arlanda (Stockholm), Durango
Most Common Aircraft: 737s galore
Most Common Airline: United (89 segments)
Most Common Airport: Dulles (23 departures/21 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DCA – ORD (18 segments)
Miles: 44,787 (40,347 last year)
Segments: 27 (24 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-8 737-8 MAX
New Airlines: WS (West Jet), QK (Air Canada Jazz), VS (Virgin Atlantic)
New Airports: OKC, HND, YVR, YPR (Prince Rupert, BC)
Most Common Aircraft: A321ceo and A320ceo (4 each)
Most Common Airline: Delta (15 segments)
Most Common Airport: SJC (5 departures/5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SJC – MSP (3 segments)
35186 miles
34 segments
4 new airports – MCO MGM RIC ATH
Most used aircraft A321
Most used airport DFW
Miles: 54,680 (49,639 last year)
Segments: 53 (51 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: All Nippon Airways
New Airports: Mexico City, Majuro, Kwajalein, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Guam, Fukuoka, Tokyo Haneda, Tokyo Narita, Hartford
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (18 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (22 segments)
Most Common Airport: Denver (16 departures/16 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Denver – Oakland (4 segments)
Miles: 47,608 (31,481 last year)
Segments: 44 (28 last year)
New Aircraft: E145, A350-900
New Airlines: Japan Airlines, Asiana
New Airports: Baltimore, Philadelphia, Dayton, Tokyo/Haneda, Osaka/Itami, Tokyo/Narita, Seoul/Incheon
Most Common Aircraft: B737-800 (5 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (26 segments)
Most Common Airport: Chicago/O’Hare (12 departures, 11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Madison-Chicago/O’Hare (11 segments)
Cranky- You left out your Faroe Islands trip from this past spring. It was your most interesting flight review so why I noticed it was missing
Jonathan – That wasn’t me! That was David on my team who took the trip, and I agree, it was the most interesting.
Pretty big year for me:
Miles: 79,771 (74,207 last year)
Segments: 103 (88 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-9 (HA) and 737-900 (DL)
New Airlines: None
New Airports: MCI & MSP
Most Common Aircraft: 717-200 (85 flights)
Most Common Airline: Hawaiian (97 segments)
Most Common Airport: HNL (90)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LIH-HNL (31 segments)
My highlight for the year was riding on the inaugural HA 787-9 HNL-SFO and SFO-HNL flights on 4/15 and 4/16 both in F class. It was a long time coming and a long wait for this aircraft to join the fleet.
Happy New Year. I hope that 2025 is a safe and prosperous year for everyone.
Had to wait until this afternoon’s final 2024 flight before filling this in. Up year over year thanks to my first several intercontinental trips since 2020, but still well down from pre-pandemic peaks.
Miles: 67,927 (27,086 last year)
Segments: 40 (20 last year)
New Aircraft: Embraer E195-E2, COMAC C919, Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey, B777-300 (non-ER), DC-9-20 (skydive), Diamond DA-20, Zair JA600, Vulcanair V1.0
New Airlines: Flair Airlines, Jin Air, Air Changan, Urumqi Air, Breeze Airways, Japan Airlines, Eastern Australia Airlines, Air China Inner Mongolia
New Airports: Yibin, Norfolk Island, Zhengzhou, Provo, San Bernardino, Perris Valley, Guangzhou-Sanjiang, Perth, Lord Howe Island
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (9 flights)
Most Common Airline: Qantas (5 segments, all short haul, including regional affiliates)
Most Common Airport: Sydney (4 departures/4 arrivals) or Hong Kong (2 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SYD-HKD (twice, both in same direction actually) or YVR-YYZ (once each direction)
Miles: 18,040
Segments: 18
New Aircraft: Boeing 737-MAX9
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None, though it was my first time at DCA post-renovation
Most Common Aircraft: Airbus A319 (6 segments)
Most Common Airline: American (8 segments)
Most Common Airport: Burlington (4 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Burlington-Philadelphia (4 segments)
Meant to add 29,879 miles and 28 segments last year.
Miles: 28,277 (55,651 last year)
Segments: 19 (43 last year)
One-way flights, ignoring connections: 17* (37* last year; asterisks due to counting self-connects incl. overnight as connections)
New Aircraft: A330-900neo (one ViaSat, one Intelsat…due to being TPAC the Intelsat one was actually preferred!)
New Airline: None
New Airports: HND
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (10 segments)
Most Common Airline: Tie between Southwest and Delta (5 segments each)
Most Common Airport: AUS (8 departures, 8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Tie between AUS/ABQ and AUS/LAX (4 segments each)
As expected, this year had me in planes way less than the previous two, but I checked a new country/plane model/airport off the list, so that’s cool. We’ll see what next year brings.
737 flying this year was more of a grab bag than usual as the AS flights (900/ER/MAX 9, not sure which) and one each of AA (not sure if -800 or MAX-8)/UA (-800)/DL (-900ER) were on 737s, and I’m pretty sure at least one of the WN flights wasn’t on a -700 but not 100% on whether it was a MAX-8 or -800 as that flight would’ve been back in late April at the latest.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=abq-aus-abq-aus-abq,aus-fll-aus-ord-aus-lax-hnd-lax-aus-lax-aus-pdx-aus-den-stl-aus
I’ve been racking my tired old brain for 24 hours, losing sleep, but it’s no good. What the heck is a non-directional route?
Kilmer – It means that you count LAX – PHX the same as PHX – LAX. So it doesn’t matter which direction you traveled, it’s still the same route.
Duh! Thank you, kind Sir. Two new airports for me this year: Budapest (slow immigration) and MUC (dreadful! This is Germany?)
Miles: 22,143 (16,010 last year)
Segments: 26 (13 last year)
New Aircraft: A350-900
New Airlines: None
New Airports: NCE, SMF
Most Common Aircraft: E-175 (12 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (19 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (9 departures/9 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX – SJC, LAX – PHX (3 segments each)
Miles: 93,207 (285,469 last year)
Segments: 88 (83 last year)
New Aircraft: A220
New Airlines: None
New Airports: GVA, EDI, MMU
Most Common Aircraft: 737-9 Max (17 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (80 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-EWR (18 round trips)
Miles: 30847
Segments: 29
New Aircraft: 737-700, A321, A321neo, 757-300, 777-300ER
New Airlines: Delta
New Airports: Chicago-O’Hare, Atlanta, Houston-Intercontinental, Orlando, Kailua-Kona, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami
Most Common Aircraft: 737 MAX-9
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: San Francisco
Most Common Non-Directional Route: San Francisco-San Diego
Miles: 34316 (14590 last year)
Segments: 34 (20 last year)
Most common airport: AUS
Most common plane: A319
New airports: PHL, ORD, PHX, OAK, SAN, MDW, MSY, CHS, SAV
New airline: Spirit, JetBlue (how ironic)
Most common airline: American Airlines
Miles: 90.207 (30.120)
?Segments: 62 (27)?
New Aircraft: A321neo, A320neo, E195 E2, A220-300
?New Airlines: ITA Airways, Air Europa, China Airlines, Aeromexico, German Airways (operating for KLM), ASL Airlines (operating for Air France)?
New Airports: BCN, MAD, VLC, MEX, GRU, HKG, TPE, HND, WAW, KRK
?Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 190 (11 Segments)?
Most Common Airline: KLM (33 Segments)?
Most Common Airport: AMS (19 Departures/19 Arrivals)?
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BRE-AMS (13 Segments)
Miles: 74,789 (87,112 last year)
Segments: 61 (78 last year)
New Aircraft: ATR-72
New Airlines: Air Tahiti; Air Tahiti Nui
New Airports: PPT, MOZ, RFP, HUH (All in Tahiti)
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (18 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (35 segments)
Most Common Airport: PDX (42
Departures and arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BOS-PDX, SEA-PDX (3 segments each)
Miles: 33,366 (Most since I slowed my travel around 2014. I used to average ~50,000)
Flight segments: 18
New airline- Avelo (one flight)
No new airports or planes.
Most common airline: United (17 segments)
Most common airports: BOS (12), LAX (11)
Most common aircraft: B737 MAX9 (8)
Moston common routes: BOS-LAX (6), LAX-BOS (3)
Miles: 41,250
Segments: 78
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: A320 CEO
Most Common Airline: LH
Most Common Airport: HAM
Most Common Non-Directional Route: It gets asked every year, but I keep forgetting what Non-Directional Route is.
Just saw this year’s explanation of non-directional route a few posts up (thank you, CF and Kilmer).
So Most Common Non-Directional Route for me in 2024: HAM-FRA