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2025 Flying Summary

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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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55 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.

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  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!

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  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!

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  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…)

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  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.

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  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

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  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)

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  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.

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  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).

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  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])

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  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

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  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)

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    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.

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      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.

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  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

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  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!

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  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

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  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

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  17. Jeremy Avatar
    Jeremy

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

    In Miles 18,747

    https://my.flightmemory.com/TheYeti

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  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…)

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  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)

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  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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  21. NedsKid Avatar
    NedsKid

    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

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  22. John G Avatar
    John G

    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

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  23. Sophia Avatar
    Sophia

    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

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  24. ktenorman Avatar
    ktenorman

    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

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  25. Ace Johnson Avatar
    Ace Johnson

    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)

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  26. Al B Avatar
    Al B

    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

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  27. Barry Avatar
    Barry

    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

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  28. SubwayNut Avatar
    SubwayNut

    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!

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  29. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    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

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  30. Eric C 2.0 Avatar
    Eric C 2.0

    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)

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  31. BRMM Avatar
    BRMM

    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

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  32. southbay flier Avatar
    southbay flier

    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)

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  33. JB-14Hrbek Avatar
    JB-14Hrbek

    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

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  34. VeggieBratsch Avatar
    VeggieBratsch

    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

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  35. RandyE Avatar
    RandyE

    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)

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  36. Phelps Avatar
    Phelps

    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)

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  37. GS in PDX Avatar
    GS in PDX

    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

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  38. cactusneedle Avatar
    cactusneedle

    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

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  39. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    What’s the point of this pissing contest?

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    1. Bobber Avatar
      Bobber

      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……….

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  40. David K Avatar
    David K

    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)

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  41. Aer Dingus Avatar
    Aer Dingus

    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)

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  42. Doug Swalen Avatar
    Doug Swalen

    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)

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  43. Luke Avatar
    Luke

    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)

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  44. Charles Cody Avatar
    Charles Cody

    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

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  45. Max Avatar
    Max

    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)

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  46. 314M Avatar
    314M

    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)

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  47. Foxpresso Avatar
    Foxpresso

    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)

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    1. Foxpresso Avatar
      Foxpresso

      *What I get for Copypasta, last year my mileage was 44,684.

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  48. Pain and suffering Avatar
    Pain and suffering

    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

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  49. Ian L Avatar
    Ian L

    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

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  50. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    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

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    ChuckMO

    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.

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