Your 2025 year of travel in review

[ellen10]

My stats for this year:

• Number of flights: 14 (8 Business, 6 Economy)
• New countries visited: 1, Portugal - well Sicily actually feels like a new country.
• New airports visited: Port Vila, Bangkok, Istanbul, Porto, Lisbon, Catania, Bologna
• New airlines flown: Thai, Turkish, Air France, Vueling
• Best flight: BKK - IST (J) - TK
• Like - all flights on time and service good.
• No dislikes - oh yes, jet lag!

 

[AIRwin]

Best flight: BKK - IST - QF

BKK-IST on QF?

 

[SydneySwan]

My stats for this year:

• Number of flights: 19 (7 Business, 12 Economy)
• New countries visited: 3, Taiwan, Lithuania, Latvia.
• Shortest flight HEL - TLL.
• Longest flight HKG - HEL
• New airlines flown: Buzz
• Best flight: HKG - HEL on AY (J)
• The walk at HEL from the arrival gate at the non-Schengen part of HEL to the departure gate for the HEL - TLL flight took longer than the HEL - TLL flight!

 

[ellen10]

BKK-IST on QF?

Oops TK, thanks I have corrected it.

 

[DejaBrew]

Number of flights: 45 (8 Y, 35 J)
New countries: None
New airports: None
New airlines: None
New aircraft: A220-200 (QF), A320neo (ANA), A350-900 (CX)
Shortest flight: HND-TOY 262km/162.799mi
Longest flight: SYD-HKG 7392km/4593.176miles
Dislike: NRT's refusal to accept bags early despite CX's published early bag drop policy at said airport.
Like: QF cabin crew that go the extra mile
Best Flight: Toss-up between AKL-SYD in J (QF B738) and MEL-AKL in J (QF B738), but clearly not because of the hard product

Milestones and Memorable Moments:

• Hitting P1 for the first time
• 3 x back-to-back AKL status runs requiring 14 flights in 4 days (there was method to the madness, but I wouldn't recommend this to others )
• Miraculously making it onto my 6am QF140 AKL-SYD after waking up at 5:31am (and somehow not being the last person to board!! ). FA Chris was an absolute star!!
• NRT Lounge Crawl
• Spending the entire flight chatting with one of the QF B789 pilots, talking all things from his experiences piloting the Dreamliner, to travel destinations, learning languages, tips and tricks for private travel plus much more. Thoroughly enjoyable way to spend 3.5 hours in the air.