How much do you fly?

[htchapman]

Was thinking recently - that I've flown a lot this year.... Last year was pretty full on for me (99 flights in the calendar year) and this year I'm on target to fly more!

This is a combination of domestic, short-haul international and long-haul international.

It got me thinking, how I compare to some of you on here!

 

[harvyk]

This year so far has been a fairly quite year for me,

I've only been on 10 flights, totaling 3 actual trips...

I've got another trip booked for the end of next month, which will add on another 6, and I may do a second trip next month which will add on another 2, plus another trip has been pencilled in for August which will add in an additional 4 flights.

By comparison last year, I had been on 6 trips totalling 16 flights before the end of March, and by this time last year I had been on 9 trips, totalling 33 flights...

I fly a combination of short and long haul, domestic and international...

Not as much as some, but I run my own business, so I either need to fork out for flights out of my own pocket (budget them into projects \ cost of sales) or convince a client that it's in their interest for me to fly somewhere.

 

[nlagalle]

The last 2 months has seen me travel at least once a week. This is my first non travel week since April! starts again on Monday though!

 

[Mal]

The yearly "Your travel in xx_x" threads are a good indication of how much people (who add their data!) fly.

2006: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/community/open-discussion/your-travel-2006-monthly-updates-6344.html

2007: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/community/open-discussion/your-travel-2007-monthly-updates-8725.html

2008: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/com...n/your-travel-2008-monthly-updates-11785.html

2009: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/com...n/your-travel-2009-monthly-updates-15813.html

2010: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/com...n/your-travel-2010-monthly-updates-20901.html

Some people do rack up some serious miles over a year. I think most years I manage 60-100K miles (most are leisure travel for me).

 

[simongr]

I changed jobs last year with a plan of doing less travel... Since 01 Oct 09 I have 43 sectors with 119K BIS miles flown...

 

[esquire]

Has been a very busy year for me - 11 International & 178 DOM sectors since June 1 last year, (6 sectors this week, 5 next week..) - which means I should just hit the 200 mark which would be a record year for me.....

 

[pauly7]

Has been a very busy year for me - 11 International & 178 DOM sectors since June 1 last year, (6 sectors this week, 5 next week..) - which means I should just hit the 200 mark which would be a record year for me.....

178!
What do you do for work so I can avoid that occupation ?
Will go tally up mine now but will be far less but I'm still happy as it got me WP in 5 months

 

[Fantic125]

Not as many as some here quantity-wise, but pretty well all my travel is international.
In the last 12 months only 55 sectors - 133,250 miles. Am leaving this afternoon on another trip which will add another 13 sectors & 24,841 miles to the total, so by the end of this trip it will be;

68 sectors & 158,091 miles. (which is the equivalent of 6.3 times around the world).

 

[taswegian77]

wow, some do travel a lot. always wondered what would constitute a lot of travel.
My QF year is the FY so from Jul09-Jun10 I would have done a total of 22 international trips. 8 to NZ, 3 to India, 1 to Singapore, 2 to Indonesia and 8 to Thailand. I have also had about 6 domestic trips.I think it adds up to around 180000 miles traveled. I easily retained WP with a total of 3045 SC for the year after I get home on Sat from my current Thailand trip.
I consider that to be above average travel heading towards heavy considering it is mainly all int'l.

 

[Must...Fly!]

I'm a 100% leisure traveller and all self funded, so my flying is obviously limited by various things, but mostly my bank account!

But for this calendar year, I have flown 11 sectors (consisting of these routes (flown some more than others obviously) PER-MELvv, PER-ADLvv ADL-MELvv, MEL-WLGvv).

By the time the year is out I would hope to have 19 sectors, maybe 21...we'll see!

EDIT: For the 12 months since 22 June 2009, including my first ever international trip (Europe), I've flown 25 sectors for 36761 miles.

 

[htchapman]

Cheers for all the replies - definitely interesting...

I've flown 60 sectors in the six months to June 30 this year.... total BIS miles of 87,174.

A lot of domestic... three long hauls to LHR, YYC and GRU... and a few trans-tasman.

I'm only 24 so my mates all think I'm living the dream - none understand its not as glamorous as in the movies [as I order another drink in the F Lounge to accompany my dinner ]

 

[dajop]

This year so far 42 sectors and 77,000 BIS miles (which should increase by end of month).

I had a big change in my travel patterns when my job moved beyond the boundaries of Aus (and then another change when my residence did as well). In 2003 I did less BIS miles (70,000) than I have done already this year, but on 3x the number of sectors (124)

 

[Bundy Bear]

I don't fly as much as some people here; but I seem to be on a plane more than most of my friends.

2010 40 flights 47,000 miles, so far,
2009 40 flights 42,400 miles.
2008 34 flights 34,600 miles.

My biggest year 2005 was 34 flights 59,000 miles.

60% self funded 40% for work.

 

[Alanslegal]

I'm a leisure traveller, so I'm nowhere near some of you require to do it for work and/or serious personal travel;-

For me;

2007 - 14 sectors - 34, 812 miles
2008 - 18 sectors - 39,455 miles
2009 - 31 sectors - 53,413 miles
And for 2010 ; aiming to beat 2009 stats (somehow).

 

[YQY]

2008 - 72 Sectors
2009 - 92 Sectors
2010 - 44 sectors so far.

I would say this is average for a WP. Mostly flying Y domestic - 95% Business 5% leisure.

 

[drron]

Not Enough!
For this year-
11 domestic sectors-5 QF,3 DJ,2 JQ and 1 Rex.
5 international sectors-2 QF,2 CX and 1 MH.

 

[Cocitus23]

I notice that some of you are able to be very precise in quoting the number of flights taken, which suggests to me that you keep some sort of records. I don't.

I once worked with a senior executive in the mining industry, who would now be in his late 70's, who had a very old school exercise book in which he had recorded details of every flight he had ever taken - and he flew a prodigious amount. Have any of you kept such a record? I guess he started when flying was still something of a novelty.

Inspired by his example, I did start up something a bit quirky, which I continue to this day. On my laundry wall I have a large framed map of the world, and on it I mark every route I have ever flown. I too have flown a large amount compared to most of the population (although not compared to some of the stalwarts on AFF), but my map was not too difficult to complete from memory, with some help by flicking through all my old passports. I do not duplicate a route which I have previously travelled, but any new inter-city connection goes on to it. The map now has so many balck lines across it that it would rival any airline's route map. Well, it impresses my grand-children, if no-one else.

Cocitus23

 

[medhead]

As a leisure, and mainly self funded, traveller in the past I never really bothered with records. This year I have started a (self funded) weekly commute to work. So I have started to keep records in a spreadsheet, mainly so i know the flights I've already booked and to track expenses.

To date I've done 48 sectors this year. With another 33 booked and 21 to be booked. Mostly very boring flying.

In the last 2 weeks I've taken to entering my flights into flightmemory, see signature for a link. I've got 2010 and 2009 flights in there and some 2008, with earlier years to come.

I also plan to check out BA97.com

 

[simongr]

I used to keep an excel spreadsheet but that has now vanished along with the USB it was on... I used that primarily to compare earning on different airline programs and to forecast when status would be achieved and/or points earned so I could forecast when I could book trips.

For my recent data I pulled that off QF's website whilst on the train and dumped it into Excel. I used to be able to recall every flight but the plethora of Oz DOM flights has made that more difficult.

There is also BA97.com or flightmemory that can record this data for you...

 

[nlagalle]

I notice that some of you are able to be very precise in quoting the number of flights taken, which suggests to me that you keep some sort of records. I don't.

I once worked with a senior executive in the mining industry, who would now be in his late 70's, who had a very old school exercise book in which he had recorded details of every flight he had ever taken - and he flew a prodigious amount. Have any of you kept such a record? I guess he started when flying was still something of a novelty.

Inspired by his example, I did start up something a bit quirky, which I continue to this day. On my laundry wall I have a large framed map of the world, and on it I mark every route I have ever flown. I too have flown a large amount compared to most of the population (although not compared to some of the stalwarts on AFF), but my map was not too difficult to complete from memory, with some help by flicking through all my old passports. I do not duplicate a route which I have previously travelled, but any new inter-city connection goes on to it. The map now has so many balck lines across it that it would rival any airline's route map. Well, it impresses my grand-children, if no-one else.

Cocitus23

I now store all my flights on flightmemory: FlightMemory - Where your memories fly! - Create your personal Flight Memory and keep track of where you've flown!

It was a labour of love to get the existing flights in, but adding new flights as i go is easy. Give you fantastic stats on the paid version too. my personal one is on the sig below.