How many hours per week are you airborne?

How many hours per week are you airborne?

  • 0 to less than 2

    Votes: 18 39.1%

  • 2 to less than 4

    Votes: 4 8.7%

  • 4 to less than 6

    Votes: 11 23.9%

  • 6 to less than 8

    Votes: 4 8.7%

  • 8 to less than 10

    Votes: 3 6.5%

  • 10+

    Votes: 6 13.0%
  • Total voters
    46
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russ

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Just wondering how many hours per week most people here are airborne
If you don't fly weekly, do it monthly and divide by four
 
Varies week by week but last week 36 hours.
 
Average year to date 9.0 hrs per week, but mainly long haul, so bigger, irregular chunks. Last year averaged 8.2 hrs per week.

19 hours to Alaska tomorrow :)
 
samh004 said:
Adding all my flights this year is about 78 hours, divided by 52 is 1.5 hours! Seems so small :p
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Divide it by 30 cause that's the week of the year we're in. That makes it 2.6 :P

Based on flown, planned and booked trips, my weekly average is around 7 hours (works out the same for the first 30 weeks vs the remaining 22). Most of mine is long haul to the USA and the odd one to Europe.

However, if you count just June, it was around 24 hours a week.

My travel is far too irregular and in very large intensive chunks 3-4 times a year to actually give an accurate figure.
 
Average over last eight years is 4.7 hours per week (Based on my AFF Flight Tracker).

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But if I include the minimum 2 hours lounge time I endeavor to educe from a booking the time traveling per week increases to 7.3 hours per week. :p​
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drewbles said:
Divide it by 30 cause that's the week of the year we're in. That makes it 2.6 :P

Based on flown, planned and booked trips, my weekly average is around 7 hours (works out the same for the first 30 weeks vs the remaining 22). Most of mine is long haul to the USA and the odd one to Europe.
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Like you, my number was based on flown, planned and booked trips. Whenever I book something it goes straight into AFF Flight Tracker (openflights) and all I did was select a year to see how many days/hours/minutes I had and will fly. 2013 is currently at 3 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes. That's all domestic though, and all QLD save for a small jaunt around the South at the end of the year. :)

If I follow serfty's lead in adding about 2 hours lounge time per flight, it increases to just shy of 4 hours per week. That seems about right :p
 
About 8 hours per week, mostly on domestic east coast flights.
 
Just to get this into perspective - each week has (conceptually) 168 hours.

So 4 hours a week is about 7% or otherwise leaving 164 hours for other things ...
 
Last couple of years ~2.5 hours per week. Given the original question quoted 'airborne', my figures reflect this.
 
Not much for me. Maybe on average one hour to four hours per week? Different months have massively fluctuating figures. Mainly based on my leisure&pleasure travel style.
 
I've put down 0 to 2. Last week it was 23, but over the next couple of weeks it's going to be zero. My next flight is likely to be in two to three weeks time, but that will only be a CBR-MEL vv.

It's very all over the place that even a monthly average is difficult to determine.

It's also not uncommon for me to go big stretches without travelling, eg from Jan-April this year I did not step foot on a plane, and then in May it was only a short CBR-SYD-CBR, and yet later on this year I might be having two trips CBR-SYD-LAX vv within the same month which would push my average up to 14 hours a week for the month.
 
samh004 said:
Like you, my number was based on flown, planned and booked trips. Whenever I book something it goes straight into AFF Flight Tracker (openflights) and all I did was select a year to see how many days/hours/minutes I had and will fly. 2013 is currently at 3 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes. That's all domestic though, and all QLD save for a small jaunt around the South at the end of the year. :)

If I follow serfty's lead in adding about 2 hours lounge time per flight, it increases to just shy of 4 hours per week. That seems about right :p
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If we're adding lounge time, that'll add around 250 hours this year to mine :P Wow. over 10 days in airport lounges. I need a life ;)
 
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My busiest year was 2000, which averaged 7.4 hours/week in the air (flight time only counted). My average over the total of my record keeping (about 17 years) is 3.2 hours/week.
 
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