Your 2025 year of travel in review

Number of flights: 24 (20 domestic and 4 international) (2F, 14J and 8Y)
Distance Traveled: 40,116 km (24,927 miles)
New countries: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia
New airports: DRW, JNB, MQP, CPT, BBK, VFA
New airlines: Airlink
New aircraft: E135 & E75S (4Z)
Shortest flight: JNB-MQP 298 km
Longest flight: SYD-JNB 11,025 km
Dislike: Grumpy Sydney Border Officers :/
Like: Airlink’s inflight service
Best Flight(s): SYD-JNB in F (QF A380) and return

Milestones and Memorable Moments:
Velocity Forever Gold
Adelaide to Darwin on the Ghan in Gold Twin
South Africa - amazing country
Kruger safari & Chobe River cruise
Victoria Falls & Cape Town
 
Beano said:
I wonder of the QF email is true. I can't believe I am in the top 5% of fliers and top 10% of earners, though did manage to renew WP (according to QF).
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According to my QF summary email, 120,340km on QF is in the top 1% of fliers, and 1.9M points is in the top 1% of earners.
 
Number of flights: 52 (41 domestic (all on VA) and 9 international plus 2 internal NZ) (All whY)
Distance Travelled: No idea, don't keep track, I assume there's an app
New countries: Slovenia and Croatia (total 48 visited now, thought it would be more)
New airports: MXP, ZRH, LJU
New airlines: Swiss, Emirates
New aircraft: Dunno
Shortest flight: ZRH-LJU 471 km (actually I forgot AKL-NPL 228km, done it so many times it slipped my mind)
Longest flight: SIN-MXP 10 313 km
Dislike: Christchurch security nicked my airbuds.
Like: Slovenia and revisiting Switzerland after 30 odd years
Best Flight(s): not great, not terrible.

Looks like I need to get some sort of flight tracker going. For my first ten years of flying I reckon I could recite every flight I did but when I started doing a lot of domestic flights with my job that went out the window. I often wonder how many flights I've even done. Can't even put a finger on it.
 
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RooFlyer said:
With 97,000 points earned, they say I am in the top 10%.
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With some of the other examples I've seen since that email came out today, I'd suggest the bulk of QFF members don't seem to earn that many points in a given year. As a data point, both ~500,000 points and ~3,000,000 points earnt for the year are apparently in the Top 1%.

RooFlyer said:
And with 16 flights for 32,000 km they say I am in the top 10% of flyers too.
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Seems that this % is based purely on kms travelled rather than flights taken (or any other metric).
 
I've ended this year on 94 flights, which is the same number as last year but I flew considerably further this year. I also feel like I'm ending this year a lot more tired from all the travel - but perhaps that's an accumulation of several years in a row of rather intense travel.

This was also the year I passed 100 countries visited.

Some highlights for me for this year:
  • New airports: NAN, RUH, JED, RVN, BJL, DSS, RAI, OTP, CLJ, ABZ, SPU, DBV, GYD, DYU, WVB, HLE, BLZ, DAR, NBO, OUL
  • New airlines: Fiji Airways, Saudia, TUI fly Belgium, Air Senegal, ASKY Airlines, TAROM, Azerbaijan Airlines, Airlink, Malawi Airlines, Kenya Airways
  • New aircraft types: A350-1000, A321XLR
  • Shortest flight: BJL-DSS
  • Longest flight: YVR-SYD
  • Best flight: SYD-JNB in QF F, a bucket list flight that was the start of my trip to a bucket list destination (St Helena)
  • Worst flight: CBR-SYD on a Dash 8 - this is something I've flown many times and usually enjoy, but on one particular stormy evening in September, the flight was so rough that I got off feeling physically sick, sweaty and shaking.
  • Like: The Qatar Airways Al Safwa lounge in Doha - stunning, and it's great that you can get in with a regional QR F ticket. And as a close second, Graeme in the WLG Qantas lounge!
  • Dislike: Airlines that make it near-impossible to claim the compensation you're owed after a major disruption (*cough* Iberia). And as a close second place, corrupt airport officials in a certain part of the world.
 
I was quite surprised to be in the top 1% of both flyers and Qantas Points earners! Though not sure how much I believe them?

94 flights
84k KMs
410k points earned
506k points used

My weekly trips to Canberra really paying off :)
 
Number of Flights: 10 (8J 2Y) 35220 Mi
New countries: UK
New Airports: None
New Airlines: None
Shortest flight: MEL - SYD
Longest flight: HND - LHR
Like: ANA The Room
Dislike: having to stay at two airport hotels because of NH889!

Travel highlight: snowshoeing in Kamikochi for 6 hours!
 
Only 3 x QF metal domestic flights, but up in top 10% of points earners from “other sources” - so they have included points earned from non-QF flights, status credits from non-QF flights plus points from credit cards health etc.
*no cc churn this year either

Certainly a big drop from my heydays of 5-10 sectors a week way back when
 
Number of flights: 46 (28 Australian DOM, 18 INT. not sure if it includes 4 on EK)
Distance Travelled: 79,881
New countries: Italy
New airports: FCO
New airlines: 0
New aircraft: A220
Shortest flight: Mel-CBR
Longest flight: SYD-DXB
Dislike: FCO IB lounges (third Party) Not exactly dislike but not good.
Like: Italian gardens, grand children in Madrid and Stuttgart and mountain walks in Oberstdorf.
Best Flight(s): FCO-MAD. Not crowded and not far but great FCM.
 
rbjhan said:
Number of Flights: 10 (8J 2Y) 35220 Mi
New countries: UK
New Airports: None
New Airlines: None
Shortest flight: MEL - SYD
Longest flight: HND - LHR
Like: ANA The Room
Dislike: having to stay at two airport hotels because of NH889!

Travel highlight: snowshoeing in Kamikochi for 6 hours!
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If it's your visit to the UK shouldn't you have a new airport there?
 
Mattg said:
Or if @rbjhan took the train there from continental Europe ;)
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rbjhan

Post in thread 'A British vacation (but I'm also going to Japan)'

So we landed at LHR T2 about 4.20pm local time.
Immigration was so fast you could blink and missed it, unlike some horror stories I heard beforehand.

Took the Heathrow Express, yes I knew it only goes to Paddington. But with mother in tow we'll need a taxi to hotel either way, might as well go for the fastest one. Plus I booked their early bird ticket + rail card discount, ended up paying £13.3 for two one way, which was quite the bargin.

I remember within last year we had at least two threads discussing the "flying J/F but sleeping in cheap hotels" thingy, well guess what, that's me! 🤣...
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OK I'm being pedantic but it says she landed at LHR

;) :p
 
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VPS said:
If it's your visit to the UK shouldn't you have a new airport there?
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Nope. Have been to LHR before....just didn't leave the airport! 🤣
VPS said:
rbjhan

Post in thread 'A British vacation (but I'm also going to Japan)'

So we landed at LHR T2 about 4.20pm local time.
Immigration was so fast you could blink and missed it, unlike some horror stories I heard beforehand.

Took the Heathrow Express, yes I knew it only goes to Paddington. But with mother in tow we'll need a taxi to hotel either way, might as well go for the fastest one. Plus I booked their early bird ticket + rail card discount, ended up paying £13.3 for two one way, which was quite the bargin.

I remember within last year we had at least two threads discussing the "flying J/F but sleeping in cheap hotels" thingy, well guess what, that's me! 🤣...
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OK I'm being pedantic but it says she landed at LHR

;) :p
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It's a transit, I didn't enter the country.
 
  • Number of flights: 66
  • Total KM 183,398 Miles 113,958
  • New airports visited: SZG and CHT
  • New airlines flown: Air China and Air Chathams
  • Like: Misconnect to HKG so points for booked NZ HKG-AKL-WLG and flown CX HKG-AKL/JQ AKL-WLG
  • Weirdness: Discovering on Austrian trains that Business > First
 
Slightly above average year and I've a feeling my travelling days are going to decrease substantially next year in comparison:

  • Number of flights: 40 - eight domestic, 32 international
  • Total km flown: 147,080
  • Shortest flight km: Adelaide to Melbourne 641km
  • Longest flight km: Hong Kong to Melbourne 7,412km
  • Shortest flight time: 1h 12m Adelaide to Melbourne
  • Longest flight time: 9h 52m Melbourne to Hong Kong
  • Total flight time 206h 42m
  • 7 total airports: Melbourne 22, Hong Kong 18, Pudong 16, Sydney 3, Adelaide 2, Cairns 2, Brisbane 1
  • Total Airlines: three - Qantas 23, Cathay Pacific 16, Hong Kong Airlines one (also a first for me)
  • 48% of flights delayed
  • 78% of flights late departures
 
Number of flights: 32
Distance Traveled: 91855km
New countries: Vietnam, Cambodia
New airports: DFW, HAN, DAD, SGN, BKK
New airlines: AY, VN, VJ
New aircraft: A380,
Shortest flight: ROK-MKY 27KM
Longest flight: BNE-DOH 12329KM
Dislike: AY 330 Y, felt so cramped, first long haul in F with QF, cough service
Like: AY 330 PE, felt like how Y should be.
Best Flight(s): SYD-LAX, 11k J, heaps of room and great service.

Milestones and Memorable Moments:
firsts- F long haul ( QF a380)
first time QFF WP ( and Mrs Muppet501st reaching QF SG
flying QR Y, have only done J, and found it the best Y IMO
eating taranchula in Cambodia
Bambo stick tattoo in Cambodia
Sapa, Vietnam, hidden gem.
Seeing in New Year in Nashville. - and then first time being sick on a plane-over indulged the night before.
Venice, loved getting lost around the place, and GPS useless on phone.
 

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