How many yearly international miles is average?

[peakhour]

Hi All

I know I'm asking a question which has no ultimate answer, but I'm interested to get an idea from those of us who fly overseas regularly, how many miles per year do you do on average?

My wife of course thinks I am away way too much (she's right), but I've tried to explain that plenty of people I am sure fly a lot more and a lot further overseas than I do.

So I was just wondering if anyone would mind sharing their average miles, no. of trips, no. of flights, and main itinerary so I can see where I fit in (likely the lower end to many on this site I am sure!).

As example, I fly around 240,000 miles per year overseas, about 16 trips, 75 flights and mainly BNE-SIN-MAA return with a few other Asian destinations thrown in.

n.b. The above numbers are all estimates not actuals.

Cheers
Peakhour

 

[harvyk]

Whilst there is no ultimate answer, where you'd fit in as appropriate would very much so depend on what sort of life you lead, what sort of job you are in, the mix between personal and business travel.

For example, one would expect that a pilot would do far more OS trips than a person tied to a phone in a call center.

My best effort was 5 OS trips in one year, 3 times to NZ (with a side trip to the cook islands) plus 2 to the US inc a transcon whilst there. Plus 10 or so dom's inc a WA trip. I expect my actual number of days away from home where somewhere in the 40 to 50 days mark. That said most of my dom trips where day trips to Melbourne.

This is living life as part salesperson part software developer with a young family back home.

Edit: comes in at 60918 miles, so not exactly a lot compared to some, but certainly a lot compared to most of my friends.

 

[MrHyde]

240,000 miles per year is a lot to me. My average over the last 8 years is 48,229 miles and 33 flights a year.... mostly domestic, but includes about 2 trips to Europe/USA and many trips to NZ in it.

My best (or worst year, if you are my SO) was 2008 with 87000 miles and 47 flights - 5 overseas trips (Middle East), 13 Aus-NZ and back and the rest domestic flights.

 

[defurax]

This is a timely topic for me since I've just received my Passenger Movement Record from DIAC. So I average 7 intl trips per year (mostly US and Europe). In average 75 flights per year for roughly 150000 miles. So I would say you fly a lot!

 

[Alanslegal]

I am a leisure flyer so I don't get to fly that much (well relative to what I want )

This year I flew about 61,000 miles / 26 sectors, 2012 was around 91,000 miles / 40 sectors, 2011 was 69,000 miles / 37 sectors. Subtract a few domestic flights from these figures and the balance is international travel.

 

[RooFlyer]

There's a thread here somewhere (?January '13) where people posted their flying for 2012 (and maybe an equivalent one for the previous year).

240,000 miles I think is a lot. I did about 130,000 international miles in 2011 and about 180,000 in 2012, mostly work related to Canada and back and I thought that was a bit of a rough trot.

 

[peakhour]

Thanks All

For the record, I think any traveling overseas long hall more than once in 3 months is a lot. Traveling domestic or to NZ is also gruelling as it tends to be even more regular, I know there are plenty of people who commute for work from BNE-SYD and similar and that is a similarly difficult thing to do.

I could only wish to do 60k miles for leisure travel in a year!!

Mine is 95% work related, though I've done my fair share of holidays as well.

Apart from shorter duration flights, the other thing I found is that compared to o/s, airline lounges here are soooo much better on the whole than overseas. There are exceptions of course, but places like Chennai remind me how nice it was when my main gripe was queueing to get a beer on a Friday afternoon in the VA Sydney lounge...Cold Samosas anyone?

 

[ReLoad]

There's a thread here somewhere (?January '13) where people posted their flying for 2012 (and maybe an equivalent one for the previous year).

240,000 miles I think is a lot. I did about 130,000 international miles in 2011 and about 180,000 in 2012, mostly work related to Canada and back and I thought that was a bit of a rough trot.

Correcto every January most people post their yearly tallies along with all sorts of tidbits.

It's actually a pretty awesome thread.

This year I've recorded some obscure stats which hopefully confuse the cough out of a non FF'er

 

[serfty]

I can't give a ready breakdown at the moment, but since 2005 I have averaged 135k miles and 90 flights a year (round figures).

That is both international and domestic.

 

[MrHyde]

I can't give a ready breakdown at the moment, but since 2005 I have averaged 135k miles and 90 flights a year (round figures).

That is both international and domestic.

Your signature has AFF Flight Tracker that suggests 167K miles and 110 flights a year.

 

[serfty]

Your signature has AFF Flight Tracker that suggests 167K miles and 110 flights a year.

That includes approx. 50 flights and 110K miles up until June next year that I have booked but not flown yet.

But, yeah, my rough maths before breakfast was still out - it's about 95 and 140K ...

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

240k in a year is a lot, I did that number and more for a number of years based out of Hong Kong and Cairns (one year I went to Detroit 11 times, but it was a massive deal that 15+ yrs later is still paying off!).

I also do the BNE-MAA trek quarterly, however, I'm now buying tickets ex MAA using Cathay, so MAA-HKG-BNE, J class is less than 140k INR, compared to A$10k ex BNE.

Throw in the monthly SIN/BKK/NRT (when not doing the Chennai visit) 3-4 day work/golf, plus a family visit or 3 to USA/Hawaii and my travel is pretty consistent around 150-175k, manageable given kids are young adults in Uni and wife tends to come along on quite a few of the trips.

Not much domestic these days, but saying that, next wk is Sydney/Melbourne/Perth in 3 days (no golf, all work/lunching).

 

[Simo]

My international travel is very low mainly due to the fact that it is all personal and also being self employed it makes it hard to go away for a few weeks.

Last year 3 OS trips app 30 000kms and app 15 flights.

This year none. Work gods have been kind and unkind in a good way as too busy at certain times to get away.

Mind you did knock back a RTW trip earlier in the year as the trip was 3 weeks and to long to be away from the business and it was work involved.

 

[suparockin]

I've racked up almost 200,000 in the past 12 months, mostly Sydney to Shanghai, Las Vegas, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Perth, Auckland with one random trip to Hungary thrown in for some variety!

New office in KL means I'll probably have to do that run a bit more.

 

[Isochronous]

Thanks All

For the record, I think any traveling overseas long hall more than once in 3 months is a lot. Traveling domestic or to NZ is also gruelling as it tends to be even more regular, I know there are plenty of people who commute for work from BNE-SYD and similar and that is a similarly difficult thing to do.

I could only wish to do 60k miles for leisure travel in a year!!

Mine is 95% work related, though I've done my fair share of holidays as well.

Apart from shorter duration flights, the other thing I found is that compared to o/s, airline lounges here are soooo much better on the whole than overseas. There are exceptions of course, but places like Chennai remind me how nice it was when my main gripe was queueing to get a beer on a Friday afternoon in the VA Sydney lounge...Cold Samosas anyone?

Good point on lounges. Unless you're using CX lounges in HKG, elsewhere is pretty ordinary. Even CX in PVG and PEK (two short-haul routes they make a killing on that are full of MPC DMs) - they are coughpy contract lounges that they use. US is woeful. Our domestic QPs are pretty decent by comparison - but the Golden Wing of the 90s was the creme de la creme!

 

[JohnK]

That is a lot of flying.

If I do ~40,000 miles internationally in a year then I have done well.

Hope to change that with a Oneworld award though.

 

[TomVexille]

As a purely leisure flyer, I tend to do somewhere between 25-50k a year. It would be higher if I could afford it.