2019 - The year in flight

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A slightly quieter year for me....

41 sectors (29 dom, 12 int)
98 019km
Shortest flight: Probably SYD-OOL
Longest flight: SIN-LHR
Best flight: Probably a CGK-SYD on QF. It was economy but the crew were so fabulous and couldn't have done more to make things a pleasure. For comfort probably a LHR-HKG on Cathay in J.
Worst flight: SYD-OOL on QF a couple of weeks ago. A succession of annoying failures including "a computer" moving me on its own (apparently) from 4D to a window further back. I can't stand windows and feel quite claustrophobic wedged into the wall. Couldn't be changed as totally full flights!.....
 
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Flew less often, but a lot further than last year.

53 sectors (lowest number sectors I've flown since 2000)
152,565 miles (245,529 km) (most since 2016), with average sector length of 2879 miles.
Shortest flight: LKO-DEL (263 mi)
Longest flight: SIN-LAX (8770 mi)
New airports: MEX, PVR, DIG, LKO, TLS
New airlines: 4O, TV
Best flight: SIN-FRA in F on SQ for milestone birthday, on my actual birthday. Although not suites, was a dayflight and enjoyed the full F experience before continuing in suites to JFK the following morning. An outstanding flight.
Worst flight: SIN-MEL on Scoot, cramped and uncomfortable. But next time I paid extra for "Super Seats" (3-4" extra legroom) and made a world of difference, so they redeemed themselves.
Other notable trivia: First time since 1996 without taking a single (Australian) domestic flight. Not even as part of connection. 14 of the 53 sectors were between two airports - SIN and MEL.
 
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About 2/3rd of 2018 for me. 62 flights for 85k miles.

Perfect status credit management in 2019 exactly 1,200 and didn't take loyalty credits and flew a few non earning CX and MH flights also.

Only thing new was one airport being LGK.
 
All stats from myflightradar24 (formerly Flightdiary)

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14 different aircraft types
33 different individual sectors
MEL-SYD was the most frequent sector at 7 flights followed by SYD-MEL with 5

New airports: USM & LER
Longest flight: SYD-DFW
Shortest flight: DPO-MEL
Edit: New Type: 789
I can't recall if I ever flew on a F100 as a child so maybe two new types.

Most memorable moment: Sitting in 4A in QF F bouncing a 4 month old little miss Tomcat on my lap when the man in 3A walked past, did a double take, smiled and exclaimed "that's so cool!"
 
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New airline: None
New aircraft: Airbus A350, Zeppelin NT07-101
New airports: FDH
Shortest flight: FDH-FDH
Longest flight: SYD-DXB
Best new experience: Zeppelin Flight
 
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Sectors: 53 (34 domestic - including within foreign countries; 19 international)
Kilometres: 116,091 (18% less than 2018)
Hours: 164 (19% less than 2018)

New aircraft type: 787-9 (KLM between EZE & SCL)
Aircraft travelled on multiple times: VH-VYB, VH-OEI, VH-OQA, VH-OQH, VH-VZV, VH-SCE

New airports: BXG (I flew only a few days after service began), ARM, SCL, EZE, JHB,
Shortest flight: TMW-SYD
Longest flight: LAX-SYD

Best flight: Tie between SCL-SYD (747 upper deck over Antarctica) and MEL-SIN (first time in first class)
Worst flight: Tie between SYD-SCL due to a 7 hour engineering delay and SCL-EZE on a LATAM A320 as we spent an hour in the air than 2 hours on the tarmac at EZE without moving due to a storm.
 
Sectors: 116
- Domestic: 101
- International: 15

Y: 84
J: 30
F: 2

Operational Upgrades: 6
Points Upgrades: 7
P1 pgrades: 8

Most visited - MEL 23, BNE 20, PER 13
New Airports - DEL, CMB, PVG, HBA
 
Pretty similar stats to last years flying:

All up 28 segments, 89,834 miles (144,573 km).
  • New airports: DAY, JAN
  • Airlines used (segments / % Distance): QF (15 / 82%), CX (4 / 10%), AA (8 / 6%), VA (1 / 1%)
  • Airport / Lounge spent most time in: DFW / AA Flagship First
  • Longest Flight: SYD-DFW (8,578 miles)
  • Shortest Flight: SYD - MEL (439 miles)
  • Travel Class ( segments / % Distance): F (3 / 28%), J (17 / 67%), Y (8 / 4%) Flights
  • Best Flight: First to / from DFW
  • Worst Flight: A number cancelled AA flights due to 'mechanical' issues meaning I had to hang around different US airports longer than necessary
 
25 segments
85,556 km / 53,162 mi

New airlines: BX, MU
New aircraft: A350
New airports: HAV, ATL, PHX, ICN, CJU, GMP, PVG, FRA, MUC, and DBV
Shortest flight: FRA-MUC (186 miles)
Longest flight: LAX-AKL

All play. Not bad considering I had only three weeks leave this year 😅
 
Fairly late looking at this. Fairly bust year of travel including relocating back to Australia after almost 4 years overseas:
64 Sectors
169 665 Miles
No new Airlines unfortunately
Longest Sector: DOH - LAX
Shortest Sector : SYD - CBR
 
33 sectors
120,699km / 74,999 mi
Busiest year by far, and hopefully now being UK based can add plenty more airlines and airports for 2020!

New airlines: BA, AZ, U2, BY, BE
New aircraft: B787-9 & 787-10
New airports: NCE, MAN, LHR, BCN, FCO, MCY, TXL, SPU, AGA, DUS
Shortest flight: MAN-LHR (191 miles)
Longest flight: MEL-AUH
90% of miles in economy, hopefully decreasing that percentage this year. Happy travels.
 
Sectors: 27
Miles: 57184
New airline: GA
New aircraft: A350-900
New airports: LOP, LIN, MXP
Shortest flight: DPS-LOP
Longest flight: LHR-SIN
Highlight: Flying J in points to my med school reunion near London. 28 hours in Europe (25 of them awake) before back home
 
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