1000 flights

[Scarlett]

I don’t know if this thread can be reopened:

1000 flights - how to celebrate?

Hi all, back when I first joined AFF, I discovered that snazzy tool which is Flight Tracker. I made the effort at that point to go back and record all my flights, and keep it up to date. I may be one or two out (does a glider flight in Gympie count??), but I am happy I have it essentially...

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

but if not, I have a similar question to that posed by @juddles. Unfortunately I won’t be in J but will be sort of travelling ‘internationally’.

Open flights tells me I have taken 985 flights and based on future bookings my 1000th flight should be one of the legs of PER-LEA-CCK-XCH in December. Seat 1A is selected for the flight, although 1A on a VA A320 doesn’t quite have the same cachet as it does elsewhere.

What to do, make myself a toastie from the PER lounge to eat on board during the trip, or splurge on a can of pringles or something else from the buy on board collection of salt, sugar and processed food? Maybe source and then open a bag of Fruchocs on the flight?

 

[Scr77]

Very jealous! Of the visit to Christmas Island that is, not of the flights! The Y only flights suck big time and the food somehow seems worse on each trip.

 

[Warks]

I wish I'd kept count myself. I used to have a handle on it through about the first 50 just from memory. Then I worked for an international company and did a lot of interstate and international travel so completely lost count 20 odd years ago. I thought long ago I'd passed 500 but I really have no idea and there's no real way to check unless Qantas has an archive. Even then it would be a rubbery figure. Well done to everyone who has kept track.

 

[exceladdict]

I wish I'd kept count myself. I used to have a handle on it through about the first 50 just from memory. Then I worked for an international company and did a lot of interstate and international travel so completely lost count 20 odd years ago. I thought long ago I'd passed 500 but I really have no idea and there's no real way to check unless Qantas has an archive. Even then it would be a rubbery figure. Well done to everyone who has kept track.

I did ask Qantas once, to try to track down flight numbers from some early trips I didn't log. They said it doesn't exist, but I'd be surprised if there aren't some sort of records to validate lifetime status.

 

[RooFlyer]

There is at last one other old thread about how you can recover Flight history from various sources. Will see if I can find it.

 

[AIRwin]

I've once asked the pilots to sign a card

 

[Scarlett]

It gets worse!

Not being overly happy with a whY flight on VA as my 1000th flight, I’ve just gone and made the situation worse. Whilst Mrs and Mstr Scarlett spend a week in Bali doing the ‘villa thing’, I’ve just booked a couple of domestic flights around Indonesia in a weeks time and now my 1000th flight looks like it will be UPG-BDO (Makassar to Bandung) on a Super Air Jet A320.
Can’t even select seats for the flight to pay for 1A or something slightly more pleasant. (the system wouldn’t give the option during booking, nor when going into manage booking after the fact - maybe via online check in…)

Maybe I should just truely embrace the LCC spirit and reminisce about my favourite flights past, from the 28-inch pitch, middle seat, down the back somewhere. Truth be told, I’ll just be happy if the number of safe landings equal the number of takeoffs throughout the trip.

Where’s that “Forgive me AFF for I have sinned” thread?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Should be happy you at the least got a booking.
Now, also, hopefully you do get onto the plane, ie, its not cancelled between now and and then, and that on the day, you make the flight, ie, its not cancelled on the day itself.
There have been several Indo airline planes over the years didn't make it all........
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If QF can keep a tab on lifetime status credit accrual, they probably have the calcs somewhere, but don't want to admit it.