Your 2017 flying year in review

[RooFlyer]

43 segments for 123,000 km / 76,000 miles ( lowest tally since 2010 )
27 airports, 12 airlines, 16 countries

New countries and airports:
Iran/IKA
Greece/ATH
Tahiti/FA'AA
Bermuda/BDA
Jamaica/KIN
Easter Island/IPC (OK, not a country but near enough )

Other new airports Ronald Reagan DCA; Stavanger SVG, Seoul ICN

 

[OZDUCK]

Only two trips in 2017

Per/Kul/Per on MH.

No new airports or countries.

The big trip was Per/Sin/Hel/Dublin return. The Sin/Dublin loop was to be on AY in J after buying sale fares..

The AY flight Sin/Hel was cancelled so we got transferred to QR via Doha. So we got our first A350, a new airline & and two new airports in two flights.

So in 2017 we used three new airports - Doha, Helsinki & Dublin. Two new airlines in QR & AY. A new aircraft type and visited new countries in Finland, Estonia & Ireland.

 

[wannabeinvestmentbanker]

A year of BA travel for me with basically all new airport visits:

40 segments, 27000 miles

New airports: ARN, PRG, MAD, DUS, FCO, BCN, LGW, SVQ, ALC, BRU, PSA, NCE, LUX, MUC, VLC, AGP, LCY, VIE, BSL, LIN, BUD

Shortest: LHR-BRU at 218 miles

As a side note, I was caught up in the LHR BA disaster yesterday so BA589 got diverted to Bournemouth so can add BOH technically.

 

[cmon0005]

The big trip was Per/Sin/Hel/Dublin return. The Sin/Dublin loop was to be on AY in J after buying sale fares..

The AY flight Sin/Hel was cancelled so we got transferred to QR via Doha. So we got our first A350,.

I hope they transferred you to QR J and not downgraded you to Y?

 

[henleybeach]

A fair few new airports, countries and airlines this year for me:-

AIRLINES - Icelandair , royal air Maroc , South African airways , British Airways , Singapore Airlines , tigerair.
COUNTRIES - Oman , Iceland , Morocco , South Africa , Zimbabwe , Zambia , Botswana , South Korea.
NEW AIRPORTS - muscat , Keflavik , Casablanca , Johannesburg , vic falls, Seoul Icn , Rockhampton

Shortest route was - AUH-MCT
Longest was - MEL-AUH
Best new airport - Seoul ICN
Worst new airport - Casablanca
Best new airline - Singapore Airlines
Worst new airline - BA

 

[whughes3]

For me:

Sectors: 42 (all bar 2 international)
Airlines: QF SQ MH KE EK
Destinations: SIN MNL HKG AKL ICN

Milestones: made SQ PPS for the first time, passed QF LTGx2, kept QF Plat for the 15th consecutive year.

 

[samh004]

Segments: 37
Miles: 47582
New country: New Caledonia, Netherlands, Finland
New airlines: Emirates (EK), Transavia Holland/France (HV/TO), Easyjet (U2), Air Berlin (AB), Finnair (AY)
New airports: NOU, EDI, BCN, AMS, SXF, TXL, HEL, CDG, ORY, LGW
Shortest flight: BKQ-LRE (99 miles)

I am 3,548 SC away from LTG, and I started my earning in 2009 (averaging 1161 a membership year thus far).

 

[Steady]

Only 29 segments for me

(101 sectors in 2014, 93 in 2015, and 64 in 2016)

Next year may well see less, but I have already booked 4 Suites segments (will be my first), including 1 new country, so bring on 2018

 

[Muppet501st]

2017 has been my busiest year ever, ( sure not up there with WP1 ) I'll take my 100th flight this Friday, CNS-BNE. I have 4 more flights next week which will be my last for the year.
Segments- 104 ( end of next week )
Kms - 120k
New Countries - Singapore and Thailand
New Airline - SQ and MI
New airports - SIN, HKT, MSP
Milestones- requalified VA WP within 4months, and still have SG to gift from last membership year, and well on target for gifting WP ( review date end of June )

 

[JK1964]

29 sectors, mostly VA, DL and PR
New cities: Chicago, Boston, Tampa, Manila, Hong Kong
New airlines: VX and PR
Favourite new city: Boston
Best deal : $1,200 J return to Hong Kong on PR

 

[hazel]

Segments: 94 - about 75 work related
Miles: no idea
New country: Papua New Guinea
New airlines: Air Niugini
New airports: POM (Port Moresby) MAS (Manus Island)
Most flights HBA-MEL-CBR-MEL-HBA
Much flying for zero points on the work flights

 

[wandering_fred]

38 flights (83094 miles) (QR 10, AA 8, UL 6, QF 4, 3K 4, JQ 3, MH 2, CX 1)
New airports DOH CGK ARN

Just wandering
Fred

 

[sinophile888]

Segments: 14 (10 J, 4Y)
Distance Flown: 47655 km
Airlines: QF, MH, EK, BA, D7 (never again)
New Countries: Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, New Caledonia
New Airport: AMS
Shortest Flight: SIN to KUL (310 km)
Longest Flight: KUL to DXB and vv (5531 km)
Most Memorable Flight: Third time lucky at SYD, including a go-around
Most Memorable City: St. Petersburg
New Cruiselines: Celebrity, Royal Caribbean

 

[Daver6]

Still have two more sector to fly this year, being PER - ADL and return.

Segments: 36
KMs: 112,765
New country: NZ

 

[jxv]

I will add my statistics:

Segments: 25 (Y:9, J:16)
Miles: 46829 (92% in J), all leisure
New countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia (the last two by road)
New airports: LYS, MXP, TIA, AYQ, ASP
New airlines: Hop! (the Jetstar of Air France), BluePanorama (BV)

Memorable failures:
Our MH flight out of MEL was delayed by 9 hours, causing us to miss the connection to our BA F flight to LHR. This was an AA award in Z class and MH insisted that Z class on their flights was only business class! They did not want to consider an op-up, even though seats were available. I searched for other F options, but all BA flights out of KUL and SIN were full. At least AA refunded the miles difference between F and J. So we got to LHR on another delayed MH flight, arriving around 11 pm. MH organised a hotel for us, as we had missed the last flight to our destination LYS. We went to bed at midnight, with the alarm set for 4 am to catch the first flight out, our shortest hotel stay ever!

BluPanorama (MXP-TIA) was also not a success. Mrs. jxv was denied boarding at MXP because her middle names were not on the ticket. We were told that was a new government requirement. She was allowed on after payment of a name change fee of $75 (the ticket cost $120 originally). I had paid extra for seats in row 2, but we were shifted to row 25 because the lightly loaded B737 had to be balanced. We had severe turbulence for the entire 2.5 hours duration of the flight, so we did not get anything to eat or drink.

On the positive side:
We have been able to travel the majority of our flights in the comfort of J, thanks to the information provided by AFF members on this forum!

 

[OZDUCK]

I hope they transferred you to QR J and not downgraded you to Y?

They were going to put us in CX Y but I didn't accept that "offer", then they came back with QR J. It was excellent in the A350 Sin/Doha and the A321 J Doha/Helsink was also great and better than the couple of J flights we did on QF around 2004 ( B767 & A330 Per/Sin/Per Skybed Mk1 & Dreamtime).

We liked QR so much we are using their "companion special fares" to fly Sin/Doha/Barcelona/Doha/Per next year.

 

[Himeno]

33 sectors - 12 QF, 7 JL, 8 AA, 2 QR, 2 BA, 1 KA, 1 CX
80,036 miles
shortest CBR-SYD
longest LAX-SYD
new BUD/Hungary

 

[lowan74]

2017 was my longest distance flown to date, but not largest number of sectors. Sorted by distances -

American Airlines - 10 sectors, 32892 miles
Qantas Airways - 5 sectors, 27755 miles
Hong Kong Airlines - 5 sectors, 16501 miles
Air China - 20 sectors, 13631 miles
Garuda Indonesia - 2 sectors, 6720 miles
Hainan Airlines - 4 sectors, 6458 miles
Singapore Airlines - 2 sectors, 5558 miles
China United Airlines - 11 sectors, 3749 miles
Aeroflot - 1 sectors, 3611 miles
Cathay Dragon - 2 sectors, 2478 miles
China Eastern - 3 sectors, 1494 miles
Cathay Pacific - 1 sectors, 1239 miles
Dalian Airlines - 2 sectors, 1148 miles
Hongtu Airlines - 1 sector, 975 miles
China Southern - 1 sector, 450 miles
Shandong Airlines - 1 sector, 334 miles
Tianjin Airlines - 1 sector, 216 miles

Grand Total - 72 sectors, 125209 miles

Highlights – SQ J Lobster Thermidor, AA J ORD-PEK via Polar Route
New country – Russia
New airlines – Hong Kong Airlines (HX), Aeroflot (SU), Hongtu Airlines (A6)

 

[andye]

Segments: 21
Miles: 50555
New airlines: JetBlue, DL
New airports: TGG, JFK, BUF, LAS, ZQN
Shortest flight: KUL-TGG (205 miles)
Air highlight: HKG-JFK for 5 in CX J using AS miles
Air lowlights: Mrs andye nearly setting the JFK Skyclub ablaze with a croissant in the toaster. Lost luggage at TGG
Other highlights: Malaysian snorkelling, various family reunions

 

[Major]

A very quiet year for me
16 sectors
14590 miles
new country : Cook Is.
new airports : RAR and BDB