Now that I'm back from Perth, let me pull some numbers from the Flight Tracker to add to the collection:
Flights: 31 (All on VA)
BIS Miles: 21953 miles
Airports Visited: 9 (In order of Frequency, Departures/Arrivals)
SYD (?!), BNE, OOL, MEL, PER, AKL, MKY, ROK, ADL
Aircrafts Flown: 4/5 (Depending on if/how you distinguish the ATRs in VA's fleet; Most common first)
B738, E190, A332, ATR500/600
Class Flown: 23 Y/8 J (75%/25%)
Class Flown by Distance: 57% Y/43% J, One of the stats that has made me happy!
Best Flight: Any flight where its a seamless experience from drop-off at Point of Origin til arrival at destination, no waiting in queues, relaxing in The Lounge, & without having to worry about checked baggage (Light packer that has avoided taking on checked baggage like the plague...). Oh, and my 3 sectors to/from PER, all on A332s, all in J, 1st in old config, next two flights on newer config (Including my last flight of the year on Christmas Day). Heaven compared to Y
Worst Flight: Toss up between my first, and hopefully my only, Red-Eye PER-BNE on a new J A332. Little sleep and nearly threw up breakfast cause my body wasn't awake proper, but it had been a very busy weekend visiting people and with meetings before I had to return to work on Monday - Lasted til Midday before I called it quits....
ANNND AKL-BNE, packed flight, rude check-in agent that didn't bother with an express pass or priority baggage tags and couldn't give a stuff moving me into an empty Row 2 cause it was Y+, which was hilarious since I was already in Row 3 anyway on a VA-NZ B738. /end whinge
Interesting Flight: BNE-OOL, initially flying SYD-OOL but diverted to BNE with the B738 needing a longer runway with some random tech issue (No danger to us at all); BNE was closer to my home, but of course I had my car parked back at OOL.... Swap of A/C, new gate, off we went for 15 extra minutes in the sky
I was going very well with leisure trips up until mid-year when I quit my job and started studies full-time. Unless I find some sort of work soon, I'll drop to Gold in May, which wouldn't be the end of the world (But still
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Here's to a bigger and better year of flying, hopefully also somewhere outside AU/NZ!!