It’s the end of another year, and I did some good flying this year, but I just didn’t do that much of it. With the exception of a Hawaiʻi trip, it was entirely a year of going up and down the coast. But on the other hand, I am now the proud owner of Atmos Silver status which is worth… well, probably not much, but I achieved the goal and can now move on.
Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz.
Miles: 10,344 (25,723 last year)
Segments: 17 (20 last year)
New Aircraft: DHC-3, A320neo
New Airlines: Kenmore Air
New Airports: Lake Union, Roche Harbor, Deer Harbor, Medford
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (5 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (8 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (3 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Orange County – San Francisco (4 segments)
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Miles: 138,233 (last year 92,786)
Segments: 78 (last year 51)
New Aircraft: 737-MAX8, 737-MAX9, A340-600
New Airlines: Virgin Australia, Alaska Airlines
New Airports: Perth, Anchorage, Cordova, Yakutat, Marseille
Most Common Aircraft: 763 or E175
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: Detroit
Biggest flying year yet. Made it to Premier 1K for the first time (all flown miles). Fun highlights were doing part of the Milk Run in Alaska, and experiencing the A340-600 just before it gets retired from the LH fleet.
Miles: 169,043
Segments: 108
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Condor, Finnair, Qantas, STARLUX, Wizz Air
New Airports: Christchurch, Düsseldorf, Faro, Hamburg, Porto, Rhodes, St. Louis, Tirana
Most Common Aircraft: B737 Max 9 (27 segments)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (55 segments)
Most Common Airport: Seattle (40 arrivals/departures, excluding connections)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Seattle – Los Angeles (20 segments)
Typical year for amount of flying but way more new airlines than normal!
No one fucking asked
Happy New Year, Cranky!
Miles: 47,937 (41,199 last year)
Segments: 31 (22 last year)
New Aircraft: None but I did get to fly on AA’s new Flagship Suite Preferred on a new 787-8
New Airlines: Spirit (NK)
New Airports: ZRH (Zürich) and STS (Santa Rosa Sonoma County)
Most Common Aircraft: B737
Most Common Airline: American Airlines (22 segments)
Most Common Airport: BUR (14 times)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BUR-PHX (5 flights)
Cheers to 2026!
Miles: 22234 (last year 32918)
Segments: 10 (last year 17)
New Airlines: Korean Air
New Airports: Incheon
Most Common Airport: Copenhagen
Achievement: Eurobonus Lifetime Gold (whether or not Eurobonus lasts much longer…)
FAT-PHX-ONT (American)
CRJ-700 and a Jungle Jet
ONT-SFO-FAT (United)
737-800 and another EMB-175
That’s it for me.
Miles: 58,594 (down from 68,560)
Segments: 41 (down from 45)
New airports: Helsinki, Vienna, Dubrovnik, Keflavik, Nuuk, Incheon
New airlines: Finnair, Icelandair, Air Seven (charter)
Most common city pair: STL-JAX (7 flights)
Highlights: Nuuk-Keflavik, one of the contenders for shortest scheduled flight between geographic North America and Europe
Miles: 27,922
Segments: 25
New Aircraft: A320Neo, A321Neo-LR
New Airlines: PAL Airlines, Iberia
New Airports: Comox, Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 / 737-Max8 (7 each)
Most Common Airline: WestJet
Most Common Airport: Halifax
Longest Flight: YHZ-BCN (3,326 miles) (on a Max 8 – honestly not bad)
Shortest Flight: YQQ-YVR (85 miles)
Most Common Route: YHZ-YYZ (7 times)
34142. Mostly AA. First time using Breeze. (aside from Government shutdown issues, it went well).
Frist time flying to FCO.
Miles: 2,533.
Segments: 4.
New Aircraft: None.
New Airlines: None.
New Airports: None.
Most Common Aircraft: E175, CRJ9, A321 & 738.
Most Common Airline: AA & DL (2 flights each).
Most Common Airport: CLT.
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CLT-JFK & CLT-BOS (2 flights each).
Miles: 23,756
Segments: 25
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: MDW
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (6 segments)
Most Common Airline: AA, F9 (7 each)
Most Common Airport: AUS (5 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AUS-LAX (4 segments, 3 airlines [AA, DL, NK])
Miles: 33,473 (28,943 last year)
Segments: 17 (24 last year)
New Aircraft: Embraer E190
New Airlines: Qatar Airways, Iberia, Ryanair
New Airports: Hamburg, Olbia, Cagliari, Madrid, Doha
Most Common Aircraft: A320
Most Common Airline: Virgin Australia
Most Common Airport: MEL
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CAG-PMI
Miles: 39,638 (19,632 last year)
Segments: 44 (22 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airport or Terminals: ONT, SAT, IND (last time was 1986 flying Eastern Airlines)
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (9 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (36 segments)
Most Common Airport: Dulles (IAD), The greatest beautiful airport (11 departures/ 11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IAD-MCO (3 segments)
Wow, do you have logs from 1986? I flew Eastern back in the 80s, but I sure couldn’t tell you exactly where/when.
I was a kid so I have the paper ticket for that trip in the scrapbook. We went to MCO via ATL on a A300. We did not fly much then, most vacations were roundtrips.
Miles: 9,502 (last year 2,044)
Segments: 6 (last year 4)
New Aircraft: A320 NEO, A321 NEO
New Airlines: Frontier
New Airports: PUJ (Punta Cana), ANC (Anchorage)
Most Common Aircraft: A320 NEO, A321 NEO, CRJ900
Most Common Airline: Delta
Most Common Airport: MSP, GRB
Miles: 5,092 (up from zero last year)
Segments: 5
New Aircraft: E175
New Airlines: None
New Airport: GEG
Most Common Aircraft: E175 and 737-MAX9 (tie, the fifth segment was a 737-800
Most Common Airline: Alaska by miles, Delta and Southwest tied by segments
Most Common Airport: (tie): TPA and SEA
You get a lot of ties when you only have five segments…
Brett, I gotta say being able to add the DHC-3 to your “New Aircraft” list is impressive!
Miles: 29,133
Segments: 14
New Aircraft: A350-900
New Airlines: Air France
New Airports: BOM
Most Common Aircraft: A321N
Most Common Airport: CLE
Most Common Airline: EI
Miles: 58,890 (last year 63,574)
Segments: 75 (last year 68)
New Aircraft: Saab 2000
New Airlines: Aleutian Airways
New Airports: Miami MIA, Santa Rosa STS, Idaho Falls IDA
Most Common Aircraft: E175 (26 segments)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (62 segments)
Most Common Airport: Portland PDX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-SEA and PDX-ANC
Are we all still using FlightMemory and its lovely 2003 web design?
In Miles 18,747
https://my.flightmemory.com/TheYeti
Basically yes, it gets the job done though it seems the design is unchanged since 2007.
There is also logmy.world now with similar flexibility but a much better map and modern features. Plus it can import from flightmemory.
Flighty is great (but no ability to import…)
Not much to report. Two new airports, PHL and ALB. Oh, and one new concourse -the D extension at BNA. Got my steps in while schlepping through ATL more times than I’d like to remember. Most travelled route segment: BNA-EWR. (Btw, EWR-BNA came in 2nd, not tied with the outbound -long story…)
Miles: 47,702 (last year: 16,036) – highest since 2009
Segments: 19 (10)
New Aircraft: A321-NEO, E-170, 787-8, 787-10
New Airlines: Envoy, Piedmont
New Airports: Syracuse (SYR), Munich (MUC)
Most Common Aircraft: A321-NEO (6 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (5 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (4 departures, 5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX–BWI, LAX–ORD (2 segments each)
Miles: 54,204
Segments: 84
New Aircraft: A321Neo, Embraer 175
New Airlines: Alaska Airlines
New Airports: Victoria, BC
Most Common Aircraft: 717 (58 segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta (80 segments)
Most Common Airport: Detroit (DTW)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DTW-CLT
Compared to others, I feel like an Amazon delivery driver with lots of short flights.
Miles: 102,572
Segments: 225 (361 last year)
New Aircraft: DHC-2 Beaver, Saab 2000
New Airlines: Kenai Aviation, Aleutian Airways, Fly The Whale
New Airports: About 45? Most recent was SMO last week.
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (36 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (73 segments, though if I combine flights on UA/DL/AA, Skywest in total would be pretty close)
Most Common Airport: Charlotte (CLT)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CLT-ORD
Miles: 148,993
Segments: 181
Airports: 93 in 6 countries
New airports: KEF, OSL, AMS, YUM, SIT, KTN, SLN, CNM, CKB
Total airports to date: 425
Miles: 190,431
Segments: 151
New Airlines: Oman Air, Royal Air Jordanian, TK
New Airports: AMM, MCT, TPA, STL, ASE, MCI, AUS, TVC, FCO, ACV, EUG, YHZ, YUL, HKG, MGW, HNL, IST
Most Common Aircraft: E175 (21 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (143 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-DCA
Miles: 38,954 (31,393 last year)
Segments: 26 (22 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: YUL, SNA, DCA, NCE
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (18 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (13 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (17 flights)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAS-SFO
Miles: 25,622
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None, though it was my first time in the DTW McNamara Terminal, LGA Terminals B and C, and JFK Terminal 4 since their respective construction or renovation
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer E175 (5 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: Burlington, VT (4 departures/4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Home Airport: Chicago/O’Hare (1 departure/1 arrival/2 transits)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Boston-Nassau, Burlington, VT-Chicago/O’Hare, Chicago/O’Hare-Portland, OR, Burlington, VT-Atlanta, Atlanta-St. Louis (2 segments each)
Most Common Directional Route: All of them (didn’t fly any route more than once in the same direction this year)
Miles: 27,467 (21,759 in 2024)
Segments: 19 (14)
New Aircraft: A321T
New Airlines: None
New Airports: YVR
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (7 of 19 segments)
Most Common Airline: United, American (8/19)
Most Common Airport: LAX (7 departures, 7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-DEN (2 segments)
Longest Segment: LAX-LIH (2,795 miles)
Shortest Segment: LIH-HNL (105 miles)
New Aviation Museum: Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, Sault Ste Marie
Miles: 39,122 (last year 60,635)
Segments: 22 (last year 42)
New Aircraft: 321-NEO
New Airlines: Asiana, AirBaltic
New Airports: Incheon, Helsinki, Tallinn
Most Common Aircraft: 763 or E175
Most Common Airline: American
Most Common Airport: Laguardia
Here’s mine for the year, still don’t fully know how to count my one trip SBN to ORD in these stats via Landline where I missed my connection in ORD and got American Airlines to put me up in the Westin because the bus was late and stuck in traffic, and got them to rebook me to Martha’s Vineyard via Cape Air, my actual destination (flying the Cessna 402 is tied as my favorite flight of the year with getting to ride in the Upper Deck of a 747 on Lufthansa), instead of Providence from where I was planning to take the ferry:
Miles: 34,863 (only by air, add ~120 road miles on board the American Airlines Landline Bus SBN to ORD)
Segments: 31 (or 32 if my AA Landline segment that never left the ground counts)
New Aircraft: A220, ATR 72-500, ERJ-195, 747-8, Cessna 402, (an American Airlines-branded Prevost bus)
New Airlines: Breeze Airways, Air Serbia, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Cape Air, Finnair, (Landline if that counts)
New Airports: Washington-Dulles, St. Kitts and Nevis, Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, Boston-Logan, Pittsburgh, Martha’s Vineyard, Helsinki, Riga
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-900 (6 flights)
Most Common Airline: American Airlines (12 segments)
Most Common Airport: South Bend (6 or 7 departures depending up on if departing on Landline Counts/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Washington-Dulles – South Bend (4 segments, a route that only started operating in November 2024!)
I also rode 10,220 miles on Amtrak throughout the year!
Miles: 6930
Segments: 8
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: PLS
Most Common Aircraft: B717
Most Common Airline: DL
Most Common Airport: MSN
Miles: 34,604 (50,480 last year)
Segments: 36 (41 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Iberia, Frontier
New Airports: Berlin, Wichita
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800 (6 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (13 segments)
Most Common Airport: Reno (11 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Las Vegas-Reno (6 segments)
Miles: 116,575
Segments: 108
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: AVL (Asheville), BGO (Bergen), DLH (Duluth), EGE (Vail)
New Routes: ALB-ORD, AVL-ATL, AVL-ORD, BGO-OSL, CLT-AVL, DEN-EGE, DLH-ORD, EGE-DFW, MAN-ATL, MCO-IAH, OMA-SEA, ORD-AVL, ORD-DLH, ORD-SRQ, OSL-MAN, PDX-MCO
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737 (40 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (60 segments)*
Most Common Airport: Chicago O’Hare (78 arrivals + departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Chicago (ORD)-Orlando (MCO) (30 segments)
*A change, previously was always AA.
Interestingly, first time I didn’t land in California since 2003
Miles: 73,236 (44,787 last year)
Segments: 61 (27 last year)
New Aircraft: A321neo
New Airlines: MU (China Eastern)
New Airports: PEK (Beijing – Capital), PKX (Beijing – Daxing), TFU (Chengdu – Tianfu)
Most Common Aircraft: A220-300 (17 segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta (55 segments)
Most Common Airport: SJC (23 departures/23 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SJC – SLC (28 segments)
Miles: 35,479
Segments: 31
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: NCE
Most Common Aircraft: B717
Most Common Airline: DL
Most Common Airports: MSP-home EWR
Longest Flight: MSP-CDG 3,669
Shortest Flight: MSP-YYZ 590
Thanks for a year of great content and analysis!
Miles: 65,917
Segments: 45
New Aircraft: 737-9 MAX
New Airlines: Alaska, Iberia, Vueling
New Airports: FLR, FCO, SAF, BER, CPH, ARN
Most Common Aircraft: B737-800
Most Common Airline: AA
Most Common Airport: DFW
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DFW – BOS
Miles – 55791
Segments – 35
New aircraft – 777-300, 739 MAX
New airline – AS BA
New airport – BDL WAW EUG FCO VCE
Most common aircraft – 738 (12 segments)
Most common airport – DFW (30 arrivals + departures)
Most common route – DFW-BNA (9 segments)
Miles: 80.926 (90.207 last year)
Segments: 50 (62 last year)
New Aircraft: A330-900, Embraer 170
New Airlines: Shanghai Airlines, China Eastern, Westjet, Virgin Atlantic
New Airports: HAJ, ZRH, LHR, PVG, SHA, XIY, YYC, YUL, YVR, SEA, PDX, LIM
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800 (9 flights)
Most Common Airline: KLM (19 segments)
Most Common Airport: AMS (11 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AMS-BRE, AMS-MAD (5 segments each)
Miles: 1,746 (up from 0 in 2024)
Segments: 2
New Aircraft: 737-900ER & 737-MAX9
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
New Routes: PDX – PSP
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-9xx (9 segments)
Most Common Airline: Alaska
Most Common Airport: PDX & PSP (tie @ 1x)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: n/a
BIS Miles: 29.269
Segments: 37
Most Frequent Airline: Southwest
Most Frequent Destination: LAS
New Airports: TFN, TFS, CMN, RAK, OKC
Exotic Routes: MAD-TFN, TFS-RAK, CMN-BCN
New Airlines: Royal Air Maroc, RyanAir
New Non-Airline Train Route: Marrakech-Casablanca
What’s the point of this pissing contest?
1) It’s fun to see where people travel to, and cool planes they’ve traveled on.
2) It (hopefully) serves as a reminder to some of us about how our activities negatively affect the planet.
Not sure Brett is forcing you to read it – or maybe he is……….
Boomers retired – mainly ground airline job probably over 30 years flying a desk – riding on passes non rev finally able to take advantage of benefits – no worries of having to get back to work. Loved the guy who added over 10,000 miles on Amtrak
Miles: 66,904
Segments: 50
New Aircraft: A330-900neo
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: LHR, PBI
Most Common Aircraft: A321, A321neo and 737-900 (6 each)
Most Common Airline: Delta (45 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (14 departures/14 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: JFK – LAX (3 segments)
Miles: 86,391
Segments: 94
New Aircraft: A220, A321neo
New Airlines: Swiss
New Airports: BCN, DAL, SAT, SBN
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (19 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (73 segments)
Most Common Airport: IAD (26 departures/18 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Washington Dulles – Nashville (18 segments)
I had my biggest travel year in 16 years…
Miles: 18,747 (1,352 last year)
Segments: 11 (4 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: MAJ, PNI, TKK, NRT
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (5 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (11 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (3 departures/3 arrivals)
Miles: 35,615
Segments: 11
New Aircraft: A350-900
New Airlines: Lufthansa, Croatia Airlines, Austrian Airlines
New Airports: Munich, Dubrovnik, Split, Vienna, Frankfurt
Most Common Aircraft: A320, 777-300ER (2 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Lufthansa (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: Vancouver (2 departures/2 arrivals – both transits)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Auckland – Vancouver (2 segments)
Miles: 28332
Segments: 22
New Aircraft: DHC-2
New Airlines: Aero Adventures, Spirit Airlines
New Airports: Mill Valley Seaport, Newark, Salt Lake City
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900(ER)
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: San Francisco
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Los Angeles-San Francisco
Miles: 46,810 (29,208 last year)
Segments: 22 (20 last year)
New Aircraft: E295
New Airlines: NH, JQ
New Airports: HND, SYD, ZQN, MEL, ITM, BDA, SVQ, BDL
Most Frequent Aircraft: A320 (5 segments)
Most Frequent Airline: NH (5 segments)
Most Frequent Airport: DUB (4 departures, 4 arrivals)
Miles: 34,990
Segments: 77
New Aircraft: N/A
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: Tampa (TPA)
Most Common Aircraft: 717-200 (50 Segments)
Most Common Airline: Delta (66 Segments)
Most Common Airport: Gainesville – GNV (15 Departures/12 Arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Atlanta-Gainesville (27 Segments)
Miles: 48,120 (25,723 last year)
Segments: 42 (20 last year)
New Aircraft: 777, A380
New Airlines: Air France
New Airports: Vancouver BC, Toronto Pearson, Manchester UK, Paris CDG
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737 (26 Segments)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (29 Segments)
Most Common Airport: SeaTac (25 segments)
Most Common Route: SeaTac – Portland OR (3 segments)
*What I get for Copypasta, last year my mileage was 44,684.
Miles: 100536
Segments: 77
New Aircraft: E145, Dornier 328 Jet, Avro RJ100, A330-300
New Airlines: Qatar, Advanced Air, Summit Air, Piedmont, Endeavor
New Airports: Montreal Trudeau (YUL), Calgary, Colombo, Doha, Lihue, Oakland, Sitka, Burlington, Crescent City, Medford, Vancouver BC
Most Common Aircraft: E175
Most Common Airline: Alaska (actually, Skywest)
Most Common Airport: San Francisco
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Orange County-San Francisco
Miles: 21,497 (28,277 last year)
Segments: 18 (19 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Salt Lake City (SLC)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (6x), 737-MAX8 (5x)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (8 segments, 7 one-way flights ignoring connections), Delta (7 segments, 4 one-ways)
Most Common Airport: Austin
Most Common Non-Directional Route: 6-way tie (2 segments apiece): AUS-MCO, AUS-ORD, AUS-JFK, AUS-LAX, SEA-KOA, AUS-DEN
Between FlightMapper and PlaneFinder, the above aircraft counts are precise for once, despite WN birds blurring together. First time since 2020 avoiding the 737-700, and prior to that I think I set foot on one every year since 2008 or so. The -800 OTOH was on all three airlines I used this year (WN, DL, AA)…which means that the majority of WN flights I took were on a MAX8. Also notable: my first (and second, and third) segments on a DL 321neo were this year, and let me just say the passenger experience vs. the AA 321neo is night and day.
Looking forward, I wouldn’t be surprised if Delta wins for segment count next year, thanks to AUS becoming a proper focus city and me probably dropping the WN CC (and AS, and HA). Beyond that, we shall see.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=aus-mco-aus-ord-aus-den-aus-jfk-aus-lax-aus-slc-sea-koa-sea-aus-hou-stl-aus
Miles: 32,044
Segments: 18
New Aircraft: Airbus 321neo
New Airlines: Discover, SA Link
New Airports: Capetown, Windhoek, Frankfurt, Portland ME, Bangor
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800 (3 flights), Boeing 737 MAX 9 (3 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (14 segments)
Most Common Airport: Denver (7 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DEN-RNO, DEN-SMF, DEN-LAX, DEN-DFW, DEN-SAN
No flights at all this year. Nowhere sounded interesting enough to justify the expense for some reason. Just wasn’t feeling the urge to go anywhere.
Chuck must be a retired airline pilot, myself just riding my tractor around my 41 acre farm – not sure of the milage. OMG POST Halifax to Barcelona in a B-737.
Happy New Year!
Miles: 26,269 (39,790 last year)
Segments: 15 (26 last year)
New Aircraft: Embraer 175
New Airlines: none
New Airports: none
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 195 and Airbus A320 (3 each)
Most Common Airline: Azul (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: Belo Horizonte (CNF) (5 departures / 5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-BPS (4 segments)
Longest Flight: YYZ-GRU (5,091 miles)
Shortest Flight: CNF-GRU (308 miles)
Miles: 76,985 (54,180 last year)
Segments: 28 (21 last year)
New Aircraft: A380-800
New Airlines: ANA, Asiana, Edelweiss, Starlux
New Airports: Tokyo/Haneda, Tokyo/Narita, Seoul/Incheon
Most Common Aircraft: 737 MAX 8 (7 segments)
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)
Notable achievement: Made both Southwest A-List and United Premier Silver.
Miles: 58,632
Segments: 75 incl. GA pax and PIC
Airlines/GA acft 8/3
New Airport Harare
Miles: 83,632 (93,207 last year)
Segments: 74 (88 last year)
New Aircraft: A220-300
New Airlines: Alaska Airlines, TAP Portugal
New Airports: TUL, NCE, GSP, MDT, LIS, SLC, NAP, STT
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900 (14 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (69 segments)
Most Common Airport: ORD
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-EWR (16 round trips)
Stayed in western North America this year
Miles: 13,615 (38,418 last year)
Segments: 20 (26 last year)
New Airlines: Spirit, Volaris, Air Canada
New Airports: Mexico City, Long Beach
Most Common Aircraft: 737s of some kind (15 segments)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (15 segments)
Most Common Airport: Sacramento (9 departures/9 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Sacramento – San Diego (5 segments)
Did alright, many more flights than last year but only a single intercontinental trip so the mileage is less this year. Only one new type in airline service (CRJ550) but many new GA/helicopter types. Also achieved my goal of flying on all of the 40+ mainland China airlines, with the exception of Genghis Khan Airlines which I am saving for a future trip to Inner Mongolia. A highlight was my first flight in a battery-electric powered aircraft (RX1E) as well as visiting 3 countries for the first time (Laos, Uzbekistan, Brunei). Already planning a few quick daytrips for 2026!
Miles: 47,412 (67,927 last year)
Segments: 53 (40 last year)
New Aircraft: Bell 429 GlobalRanger, Schweizer 300C, Sunward SA70L Aurora, Jabiru J230, Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser, Learjet 23, Learjet 24D, CRJ-550, AVIC Jingmen A2C, AgustaWestland AW119, Ruixiang RX1E
New Airlines: Tigerair Taiwan, Starlux, Air Guilin, GX Airlines, Qanot Sharq, Air Premia, T’way Air, Royal Brunei, Peach, Zipair, Grand China Air, Beijing Airlines, Hebei Airlines
New Airports: Luzhou, Guilin, Vientiane, Luoyang, Zhongshan-Sanjiao, Tashkent, Bandar Seri Begawan, Zhuzhou-Lusong, Osaka-Kansai, Ione-Eagle’s Nest, Bakersfield, Paso Robles, Jiujiang, Yangzhou
Most Common Aircraft: By far the 737-800 (11 segments)
Most Common Airline: China Southern (5 segments)
Most Common Airport: Hong Kong (5 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Didn’t fly anything more than a single roundtrip
The Jingmen A2C looks so cool. Seadoo + Kite!
Miles: 30,612
Segments: 10 (14 last year)
New Aircraft: A320NEO, twice flown (EZY and IB)
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Palermo
Most Common Aircraft: Airbus A330-300 and B777-300ER
Most Common Airline: Delta (3 segments)
Most Common Airport: JFK (4 departures, 4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CDG to JFK
New Segments Flown: MAD-CTA, PMO-ORY
Airlines Flown: Swiss, Delta, Air France, Iberia, EasyJet.
Miles: 3,934
Segments: 4
New Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ER
New Airlines: Asiana
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ER (single type), A321neo family (1x A321neo, 1x A320neo)
Most Common Airline: Cebu Pacific, Asiana (tie)
Most Common Airport: Manila
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Not applicale
Not as much as the others here. Only had two trips this year: Manila-Cebu (v.v.) and Manila-Incheon (v.v.). Kind of jealous of the others here who are frequent fliers, but at least I got to fly on Asiana before they went bye-bye.
Miles: 10535 (Last year 28172) I miss flying 50,000 miles yearly.
Segments: 6 (Last year 16)
New aircraft: A320neo
Brett, what did you think of the A320neo? I was looking forward to flying it. I got to fly it LAX-ORD in late-October, in coach. It was all great except for the noticeable lack of seat padding. It was causing serious discomfort and leg cramps less than two hours into the flight. I don’t know if F has an acceptable amount of padding.
Haj – The A320neo was nice and quiet. Seats have nothing to do with the airplane itself. That’s just how the airline decided to outfit the aircraft.
I understand the interior is decided by the airline. But why ruin the passenger experience on such a great jet by cheaping out on the seats to save a few pounds?
Miles: 29,810 (37,079 last year)
Segments: 29 (19 last year)
New Aircraft: none :(
New Airlines: none :(
New Airports: OMA
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900ER (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (18 segments)
Most Common Airport: PDX (13 departures/13 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-SAN (9 segments)
Miles: 22,516 (36,599 last year)
Segments: 21 (36 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: None
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (5 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: SEA (6 departures/5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SEA-AUS (3 segments)
Miles: 33,265 miles (last year 5,449 miles)
Segments: 14 (last year 3)
New Aircraft: Airbus A321neo, Comac C909 (aka ARJ121)
New Airlines: Air China, Shandong Airlines, Hainan Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Icelandair
New Airports: Xi’an (XIY), Chengdu Tianfu (TFU), Guilin (KWL), Haikou (HAK), Changsha (CSX), Paris Orly (ORY), Krakow (KRK), Keflavik (KEF), Orlando (MCO), Melbourne FL (MLB)
Most Common Aircraft: B787-9 (4 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta Air Lines and Hainan Airlines tied for 3 segments
Most Common Airport: Sydney, Australia (SYD) (1 departure, 2 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: none – I only booked one-way tickets
SYD-based flyer. One holiday in China as well as a round-the-world trip first travelling through Europe (via China) and then onto the US before returning home to Australia. Not a bad year.
Respectfully begging you to go to Europe or Asia the western US is just too limited. Or at least NYC.
Miles: 107,290
Segments: 83
New Aircraft: A380
New Airlines: Air Baltic (LH wet-lease), Finnair
New Airports: BHX (Birmingham), MUC, CPH, HEL, PWM, BUF, PVD, MHT, SYR, SJU
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (Thanks to B6 #25for25)
Most Common Airline: UA
Most Common Airport: EWR
Most Common Non-Directional Route: EWR-LAX (10)
Miles: 74,658 (104,549 last year)
Segments: 40 (61 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Erbil
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 737-800 (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (26 segments)
Most Common Airport: DCA (11 departures/12 arrivals)
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Miles: 32,860 (22,147 in 2024)
Segments: 10 (12 in 2024)
No new aircraft or airlines
New Airport: CEI
Most common aircraft: B787 (4)
Most common airlines: JAL, Delta (4 each)
Most common airports: JFK, SFO, BKK (3 each)
Another year with a lot of train travel as well as flying, including round trips to Denver, New Orleans, and Chicago from the northeast.
Miles: 11,812 (8,817 last year)
Segments: 10 (10 last year)
New Aircraft: A220-100, A220-300
New Airlines: Breeze
New Airports: HPN, IND
Most Common Aircraft: A320, A220-300, A321neo (2 flights each)
Most Common Airline: American (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: LaGuardia (2 departures/2 arrivals)
I live closer to Philly than the NYC metro, but on 4 of the 5 trips I took this year, fares were significantly cheaper out of NYC than PHL. Yields must be a mess.
Just invested in a Flighty subscription and have imported over 2,000 flights from my 20+ years of business travel so I feel like I can finally participate.
Miles: 115,858
Segments: 100
New Aircraft: DHC-4 Caribou
New Airlines: Air Europa, Cayman (KX)
New Airports: Grand Cayman (GCM), Little Cayman (LYB), Lisbon (LIS), Catania (CTA), Palermo (PMO)
Most Common Aircraft: A321 Neo (22 segments) – even flew on the same exact airplane 3 times (N14512)
Most Common Airline: United (84)
Most Common Airport: Chicago
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD to SAN (15 segments)
Busy, but pretty boring from a “what’s new” standpoint.
Miles: 46,999 (53,829 PY)
Segments: 21 (31 PY)
New Aircraft: A321XLR
New Airlines: none
New Airports: CUN
Most Common Aircraft: Airbus A321 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: American (10 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (6 departures, 6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-DFW (4 segments)
Miles: 119,954
Segments: 91
New Aircraft: Piper Archer (GA)
New Airlines: Silver Airways, JAL, ANA, Virgin Australia, Allegiant, Korean, Austrian, Turkish, ITA
New Airports: 27 (too many to list)
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-800 (18 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (66 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (51 flights)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DFW – LAX and ORD – DFW (4 segments each)
Having forecast the recovery of MH370 for a couple of years, perhaps I should change my forecast to read that it will NOT be found this year! However, I think it’s important to include it in these forecasts, just to keep it in our focus. Interesting article just appeared on the topic: https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251230-mh370-search-resumes-in-indian-ocean-years-after-plane-disappearance?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=f24-nl-quot-en&utm_email_send_date=%2020261231&utm_email_recipient=321155&utm_email_link=contenus&_ope=eyJndWlkIjoiM2Q1ZTNhMGNkNDFjMjU5ODgyNjE4YTgzMGFkNjVjODAifQ%3D%3D
Miles: 44,541
Segments: 41
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Kalispell (FCA), Rapid City (RAP)
Most Common Aircraft: E175 (10 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (26 segments)
Most Common Airport: PDX (30 flights)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Several domestic routes tied with 2 (PDX-BOS, PDX-DEN, PDX-DFW)
Miles: 41482 (34316 last year)
Segments: 24 (34 last year)
New Aircraft: E145, B763, B764, BCS3
New Airlines: N/A
New Airports: Newark, Washington / Dulles, Charlottesville, Beijing / Daxing, Portland ME, Seattle
Most Common Aircraft: B773, B739, A321 (3 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Delta (7 segments)
Most Common Airport: JFK (5 departures/2 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: JFK – SFO and several others (2 segments)
Miles: 17,328 (30,212 last year) ’25 lowest year in a long time, wishing the trend would continue. It won’t.
Segments: 22 (32 last year)
New Airlines: None
New Airports: SAT, ROA
Most Common Aircraft: 73/Max Family, A32Family
New Aircraft: UA A321NEO (first flight was on a jet that had been in service two days)
Only Airline: UA
Airline I don’t miss: Ted(!)
Most Common Airport: DEN every trip started and ended in DEN
Connection!: For the first time since before COVID, had to connect at ORD one trip
Most Common Non-Directional Route: None
Miles: 34,766 (14,000 last year)
Segments: 19
New Aircraft: 747-8
New Airlines: ANA, Swiss, Thai
New Airports: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Tokyo Haneda, Nuremberg, Zurich
Most Common Aircraft: 737-7, 787-9
Most Common Airline: Southwest / United / ANA
Most Common Airport: John Wayne
Most Common Non-Directional Route: – John Wayne – Oakland
Miles: 99,823
Segments: 66
New Aircraft: DHC-6 Twin Otter, Embraer 195-E2
New Airlines: Air Mauritius, Air Seychelles, Hawaiian, StarFlyer, TAG Airlines
New Airports: BOI, BZE, DSM, GUA, HND, KOA, KIX, KRK, PRI, RUN, RZE, SEZ, YOW
Most Common Aircraft: Embraer 175 (10 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (35 segments)
Most Common Airport: EWR (19 flights))
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LGA-ORD (3 segments)
Miles: 90,917 (37,795 last year)
Segments: 38 (23 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: Breeze, Ethiopian Airlines, Etihad Airways, Korean Air, Cathay Pacific, Royal Air Maroc, Transavia
New Airports: London Stansted (STN), Girona (GRO), Addis Ababa (ADD), Abu Dhabi (AUH), Provo (PVU), Seoul Incheon (ICN), Hong Kong (HKG), Casablanca (CMN), Marrakech (RAK)
Most Common Aircraft: B77W (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: Washington IAD (20 segments)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: None
This year definitely set a new record for me for most countries visited in a single year at 15. I also flew to more new destinations on more new-to-me airlines than I have in any other year.
Miles: 88,037 (104,488 last year)
Segments: 73 (77 last year)
New Aircraft: A350-1000, A380-800, P2012 Traveller
New Airlines: Cape Air (9K), Ethiopian Airlines (ET), Flightlink (YS), Air India Express (IX), Akasa Air (QP)
New Airports: Milan Linate (LIN), Vienna (VIE), Geneva (GVA), Lagos (LOS), Addis Ababa (ADD), Kilimanjaro (JRO), Arusha (ARK), Zanzibar (ZNZ), Augusta (AUG), Providence (PVD), Prague (PRG), Berlin (BER), Guatemala City (GUA), Bengaluru (BLR)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900ER (14 flights)
Most Common Airline: United (42 segments)
Most Common Airport: Boston (15 departures/16 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Boston – Chicago (9 segments)
Miles: 39,795 (55,132 last year)
Segments: 25 (28 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-800, 757-200, A321Neo
New Airlines: ANA, Icelandair
New Airports: Keflavik
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 (8 flights)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (15 segments)
Most Common Airport: San Diego (10 departures/11 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Sacramento – San Diego (7 segments)
Yes… it really took me this long to get on a 752.