2019 - The year in flight

[kookaburra75]

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So, from my jaded perspective, having now sampled life again as a normal person, flying is bad for you. But next year I am on the bus again - Chile/Colombia/Bolivia/Tahiti/ New Zealand/Thailand/Vietnam/London/Paris. And some more. Just without a QF tie. I will also travel to somewhere I have dreaded since childhood - that obscure backwater full of mindless perils - Tasmania!

I'm sure the locals will greet you warmly when you get there - as in pitchforks and burning torches type warmly

EDIT: Just saw your other post at Tasmanian Tigers, or Devils.? A shocking trip into the deadly and unknown...., and see that @RooFlyer is ready for your arrival

 

[wannabeinvestmentbanker]

My biggest flying year to date primarily comprised of near weekly SYD-MEL trips

Sectors: 110
Miles: 110,927 (178,520 km)
New airlines: QR
New airports: DOH, BIO, CPH
Shortest sector: KUL - SIN
Longest sector: AKL - DOH

Highlights this year were QR Qsuites from AKL aboard the longest flight and EK F from Europe to Asia

Achieved QF LTS after coming tantalisingly close to P1

2020 should see a similar level of travel to look forward to!

 

[kermatu]

A somewhat lighter year for me but still too many flights. Approx 67 (63 of which were work-related). 79,001 miles. (Manual entries to tracker so could be slightly off).

Same destinations and nothing long-haul. So no new destinations, airlines or aircraft. Rather depressing.

But did get to finally sample the QF "Mini-First" on the brand-spanking-new 787 Dreamliner. That's something, right?

 

[JessicaTam]

A somewhat lighter year for me but still too many flights. Approx 67 (63 of which were work-related). 79,001 miles. (Manual entries to tracker so could be slightly off).

Same destinations and nothing long-haul. So no new destinations, airlines or aircraft. Rather depressing.

But did get to finally sample the QF "Mini-First" on the brand-spanking-new 787 Dreamliner. That's something, right?

So you're the frequent flyer who calls it that!

 

[Silvia]

36 flights
103 822 km

New airlines: QR, DL, VY
New aircraft: A350-1000, 787-900
New airports: ADL, HKG, DOH, ARN, SXF, GRX
Shortest flight: TAM-MEX (314 km)
Longest flight: LAX-MEL
Best new experience: EK F, also B747 coughpit visit on QF on my 30th birthday.

 

[defurax]

Average year for me, 76 segments and 128963 miles.
New airports: BKK, WLG, PVG

Worst flight: BKK-CMB with UL. Seated in row 1 with no leg room at all!!!

Reached QF WP1 for the first time.

Looking at my stats I should hit 1 million miles on Qantas operated flights next year. If that's a thing...

 

[vantage03]

I love this thread each year, makes me look back and actually think about the ridiculous amount of time I spend in the air.

Interesting year for me as even though I flew less than last year, it felt like I flew more this year.
Back and forward Europe-US every week or two for a couple of months took it out of me.
That said, there were lots of great new experiences, more than most years as I usually get to the same places.

Sectors: 107
Miles: 248,486
New airlines: KE, OS, 7V, V6
New aircraft: Beechcraft 1900C
New airports: OPF, ANU, EIS, ICN, BOS, JNB, INY (airstrip)
Shortest flight: EIS-SJU (96 miles)
Longest flight: LAX-SYD (7,488 miles)
Best new experience: Sharing the "double suite" bedroom with my partner in the new SQ A380 Suites ZRH-SIN

 

[JohnM]

Best new experience: Sharing the "double suite" bedroom with my partner in the new SQ A380 Suites ZRH-SIN

Exclusive club joined, I hope... .

 

[yld200]

My biggest year by far

54 Flights
104,021 miles, 239 hours flying. Most of which was in Y for work. 4 segments in J and 1 in W.

Many new countries including; Jordan, China, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Israel, Norway, Spain, Ireland and Poland.

Best product: QR A350 J
Worst Product: Ryanair 737

 

[support]

I put the longitude at 14.73 instead of 140.73 and although it says I can edit it (which I can, I can't save it)

This issue has been fixed for you.

 

[CaviAck]

It's been an interesting year.

Sectors: 48
Distance: 97,581 miles
New airline: JL, QR, CX, KA, QF*EK
New aircraft: A350, A320neo
New airports: HND, DOH, PEK, PER, DUD, CHC, MNL, ATL, TPA
Shortest flight: CDG-LHR (216 miles)
Longest flight: LAX-MEL (7,936 miles)
Best new experience: QR J

 

[VPS]

Boy that was really hard work - every time I put in a plane type I couldn't remove the spaces and it just stuffed up the whole thing and then when I went to edit it totally stuffed the next flight. In the end I just left the plane type blank. But overall a quiet year for me.

I added Innamincka airport and it says it is in Australia but shows as the bottom of Africa on the map.

So I can't work out how many miles I covered because it thinks that I did a very long trip in a little Cessna from mid north of South Australia to the bottom of Africa.

5 countries - 17 airports. New ones for me DOH, BHX, INM, BVI, YLEC, YHAW and ZQN

New airlines Bush Pilots (no code for them) and QR.

New plane - Cessna (leg room was rubbish) View attachment 201229View attachment 201230

Thanks @support for fixing it

Now Tripit that I put almost everything into has given me these stats



And Open flights has given me this so it's just the trip up north that I didn't put into Tripit

Distance Unique Airports 17 Carriers 6 Countries 5 Vehicles 4 Total flown 53277 km Around the world 1.33x To the Moon 0.139x To Mars 0.0010x

Airport records Journey records Longest DOH↔ADL, 11323 km, 14:34 Shortest BVI↔INM, 243 km, 00:48 Average 1837 km, 02:43 Northernmost BHX (52.45°N 1.75°W) Southernmost ZQN (45.02°S 168.74°E) Westernmost BHX (52.45°N 1.75°W) Easternmost WLG (41.33°S 174.81°E)

Going to tick off 3 more countries next month and will be able to say I've stood on every continent (and the best is that it will be cold)

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Relatively unremarkable year for me - 143 flights and 300,392 miles flown.
By distance 37% in F, 57% in C, and 6% in Y (by number 16%, 38%, and 46% respectively).
No new destinations but two new routes (HKG-DUB and MEL-SCL) and 2 inaugural flights.
Worst disruption 15 hours overnight delay (most spent queuing at the service desk), which caused misconnect and overnight delay for the next flight, and further misconnect for the flight after that.
Dishonourable mention - being downgraded from F when rebooked from the delayed QF36 because it would misconnect with my onward flight.

 

[serfty]

Dishonourable mention - being downgraded from F when rebooked from the delayed QF36 because it would misconnect with my onward flight.

So you went from F suites on 388 to J suites on 330 ... certainly more room on the former.

I had my lightest year of travel segments since 1994:

50 segments
98844 miles
9 days 7:02

Firsts: Airlines: Travel on HX, UL, Routes: Between HKG & BOS/BKK, Between CMB & MEL/SIN/KUL, MEL-KUL.

By Segments:

Routes MEL↔SYD 8 HKG↔MEL 4 AKL↔MEL 4 BNE↔MEL 3 HKG↔BKK 2 SIN↔MEL 2 OOL↔SYD 2 KUL↔BKK 2 MEL↔PER 2 OOL↔MEL 2

Airports Melbourne Intl (MEL) 29 Sydney Intl (SYD) 12 Hong Kong Intl (HKG) 10 Auckland Intl (AKL) 8 Kuala Lumpur Intl (KUL) 8 Gold Coast (OOL) 7 Bandaranaike Intl Co (CMB) 4 Los Angeles Intl (LAX) 4 Changi Intl (SIN) 4 Suvarnabhumi Intl (BKK) 4

Airlines Qantas 18 V Australia Airlines 16 Malaysia Airlines 8 American Airlines 3 Hong Kong Airlines 2 SriLankan Airlines 2 Cathay Pacific 1

By Distance:

Routes HKG↔MEL 18412 HKG↔BOS 7952 MEL↔LAX 7922 SIN↔MEL 7492 AKL↔MEL 6548 AKL↔LAX 6512 CMB↔MEL 5190 HKG↔SYD 4591 KUL↔MEL 3921 MEL↔SYD 3504

Airports Melbourne Intl (MEL) 60855 Hong Kong Intl (HKG) 36211 Auckland Intl (AKL) 17153 Los Angeles Intl (LAX) 16154 Kuala Lumpur Intl (KUL) 11839 Sydney Intl (SYD) 10280 Bandaranaike Intl Co (CMB) 9959 Changi Intl (SIN) 9383 General Edward Lawre (BOS) 7952 Gold Coast (OOL) 5800

Airlines Qantas 31349 V Australia Airlines 30477 Malaysia Airlines 11839 American Airlines 8232 Cathay Pacific 7952 SriLankan Airlines 6897 Hong Kong Airlines 2098

 

[Lemon_Party]

Similar to other recent years. Too much domestic and asian Y for work, topped up with some J and F redemptions for fun.

Sectors: 71
Miles: 109,074
New airports: OOM, MIM
Shortest sector: OOM - MIM (66 miles)
Longest sector: DXB - BNE (7443 miles)

Firsts - CX F and EK F enjoyed for the first time this year. QF Oneworld award successfully booked online for 2020 departure...

 

[Flying mermaid]

No idea how many flights or distance and too lazy to work it out.

Flying to Chile for the first time and doing an Antarctic cruise with Silversea and crossing the Antarctic circle. Amazing experience but first and last cruise.

we have now been to all 7 continents

a trip to New York. Bit same old, but made exciting by doing 4 sectors in Qsuites with Qatar - CBR-DOH-JFK and return. Stopover in Doha. Total convert to Qsuites and you won’t see me on Qantas again

Trip to Fiji which definitely wasn’t new but first time we have travelled with friends which was heaps of fun.

 

[sinophile888]

This is my pathetic effort.

Sectors: 7

Distance travelled: 18500 km

Poor behaviour: Sector 2

Banned by Qantas: Yes, March

Unbanned by Qantas: Yes, May

Flights: PER -> MEL, MEL -> PER

Airlines: QF

Cabin: J

 

[mandolino]

Sectors: ~50
New airports: WLG, LST, HBA, AVV
New airlines: Wizzair (BUD-FRA)
Shortest flight: tossup between WLG-NPL, NPL-AKL, SVG-BGO, SXB-AMS
Longest flight: LHR-KUL rtn.

J flights: LGW-TFS, LHR-KUL.
everything else Y.

Most expensive beer: Lervig Liquid Sex Robot, $18

 

[JohnM]

This is my pathetic effort.

Sectors: 7

Distance travelled: 18500 km

Poor behaviour: Sector 2

Banned by Qantas: Yes, March

Unbanned by Qantas: Yes, May

Flights: PER -> MEL, MEL -> PER

Airlines: QF

Cabin: J

But you are not really the delinquent pax from hell you make yourself sound...

 

[takenbyaliens]

My year :
28 sectors 24 in J, 3 in Y, 1 in PE
114125 km
6 days 11 hrs in the air
Longest HKG - LHR
Shortest GVA - ZRH 230 km

CX 32804 km all in J
QF 48545 km all in J

New airlines: KN ( China United out of Daxing )
VA ....yep first flight ever with them!! BNE - ZQN for New Year. ( here right now )

New airports: HIA. Huaian
PKX Beijing Daxing

New metal: CX 350-1000

Another big one coming next year.................