1000 flights - how to celebrate?

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Hi all,

back when I first joined AFF, I discovered that snazzy tool which is Flight Tracker. I made the effort at that point to go back and record all my flights, and keep it up to date. I may be one or two out (does a glider flight in Gympie count??), but I am happy I have it essentially correct.

Over the years this tally has increased, and when I just added my next upcoming trip, I realised I would crack the 1000 mark. Quite fittingly for me, my no. 1000 flight will be SCL-SYD.

3rd July. This year. I will possibly have to have an extra vino or two in the SCL lounge prior to boarding. How else can I celebrate this?
 
I'll tell the bar manager in the SCL LA lounge when I'm there on Sunday with a longish layover SYD-xSCL-LIM to bring in an extra crate or two of champagne, reds and rum so you have an adequate choice from which to choose to celebrate - and prepare for the shuffle of shame down to PE. ;):cool::eek::)

Too bad there's no Red Roo any more - we may have been able to organise an opup as I imagine many of those 1000 flights were on QF. :(
 
I'll tell the bar manager in the SCL LA lounge when I'm there on Sunday with a longish layover SYD-xSCL-LIM to bring in an extra crate or two of champagne, reds and rum so you have an adequate choice from which to choose to celebrate - and prepare for the shuffle of shame down to PE. ;):cool::eek::)

Too bad there's no Red Roo any more - we may have been able to organise an opup as I imagine many of those 1000 flights were on QF. :(

Actually, am in J for that trip - it is the second leg of a ticket I bought a long time ago :)

I just checked MMB and discovered I was bumped out of my 5J rockstar seat!!! They have changed planes to that last old one with the "refurbed" F cabin. I just selected 1A, and although those refurbed seats are not as good as modern J ones, this will be a perfect vantage point from which to ponder the antarctic, as I try to recover from the lounge :)
 
In the scuba world, 100 dives use to mean you dive nekkid but seems only the silly young ones fell for that and then theres the shrinkage issue so I dont suggest you try it on board.

.... How else can I celebrate this?

Do a tour of the cabin.
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In the scuba world, 100 dives use to mean you dive nekkid ....

Actually, now there's a thought! :)

NO. Anyone who has read some of my ramblings will get that I have suffered awakenings after benders that were special. To "come to", naked, lying on the antarctic ice after being hurled bodily through a 747 hatch at 40,000 feet, is probably not yet on my wish list of experiences.

But then again, dang! the seed is sown in my mind - must go easy on the rum in the lounge prior....
 
Actually, now there's a thought! :)

NO. Anyone who has read some of my ramblings will get that I have suffered awakenings after benders that were special. To "come to", naked, lying on the antarctic ice after being hurled bodily through a 747 hatch at 40,000 feet, is probably not yet on my wish list of experiences.

But then again, dang! the seed is sown in my mind - must go easy on the rum in the lounge prior....

Just do it - but you'll need photographic evidence to convince some on AFF
 
I've always tracked my flights on a spreadsheet, firstly Lotus 1-2-3 :eek: but now of course Excel. I have an offline copy stored on my phone so I really could show the FA last year that it was indeed my 600th QF flight (got a bottle of wine and an onboard announcement for that!) My spreadsheet also does basic forecasting for various milestones including my 1,000th QF flight (some way off) but much closer to hand my 1,000th total flight (early to mid 2020 at the moment).
 
Scuba is not the only activity that promotes nakedness at 100 x (or 1000), skydiving is the same... I say wear one of these and nothing else you'll be close enough without enjoying the cold breeze at 40,000ft!

Also for flights, do we get to count the ones we didn't land in? Or is a "flight" only counted take off AND landing? :) For the distant (or not so distant) future...
 

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I just checked MMB and discovered I was bumped out of my 5J rockstar seat!!! They have changed planes to that last old one with the "refurbed" F cabin. I just selected 1A

So, in a way, you are doing your 1000th flight in style, in First Class! Surely that’s the proper way to celebrate the milestone.
 
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That's all I need! Peer pressure!! :O

No, THIS is peer pressure:

Scuba is not the only activity that promotes nakedness at 100 x (or 1000), skydiving is the same... I say wear one of these and nothing else you'll be close enough without enjoying the cold breeze at 40,000ft!..

Photographic evidence definitely required, though.
 
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