2025 Flying Summary


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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22 responses to “2025 Flying Summary”

  1. Bobber Avatar
    Bobber

    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.

  2. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    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!

  3. Jared Avatar
    Jared

    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!

  4. Patrick Avatar
    Patrick

    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…)

  5. Matt D Avatar
    Matt D

    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.

  6. grichard Avatar
    grichard

    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

  7. James Burke Avatar
    James Burke

    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)

  8. Sean W Avatar
    Sean W

    34142. Mostly AA. First time using Breeze. (aside from Government shutdown issues, it went well).
    Frist time flying to FCO.

  9. Billy L. Avatar
    Billy L.

    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).

  10. Spoog Avatar
    Spoog

    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])

  11. AJ Avatar
    AJ

    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

  12. Terminal Wanderer Avatar
    Terminal Wanderer

    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)

    1. grichard Avatar
      grichard

      Wow, do you have logs from 1986? I flew Eastern back in the 80s, but I sure couldn’t tell you exactly where/when.

      1. Terminal Wanderer Avatar
        Terminal Wanderer

        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.

  13. Bigsix Avatar
    Bigsix

    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

  14. CraigTPA Avatar
    CraigTPA

    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!

  15. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    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

  16. Jason G Avatar
    Jason G

    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

  17. Jeremy Avatar

    Are we all still using FlightMemory and its lovely 2003 web design?

    In Miles 18,747

    https://my.flightmemory.com/TheYeti

  18. Len Avatar
    Len

    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…)

  19. Ron Avatar
    Ron

    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)

  20. 717 Warrior Avatar
    717 Warrior

    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.

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