2019 - The year in flight

[sinophile888]

But you are not really the delinquent pax from hell you make yourself sound...

But it sounds good. In fact, I have discovered after years of feeling ghastly on every flight, then being unrousable between MEL and PER, that oxygen really does the trick. Since my deliquency, I have actually enjoyed 5 flights in 7E on an A330 accompanied by an oxygen concentrator.

 

[Ekka]

No idea how many flights or distance and too lazy to work it out.

Flying to Chile for the first time and doing an Antarctic cruise with Silversea and crossing the Antarctic circle. Amazing experience but first and last cruise.

we have now been to all 7 continents

a trip to New York. Bit same old, but made exciting by doing 4 sectors in Qsuites with Qatar - CBR-DOH-JFK and return. Stopover in Doha. Total convert to Qsuites and you won’t see me on Qantas again

Trip to Fiji which definitely wasn’t new but first time we have travelled with friends which was heaps of fun.

Except that we went to Antarctica with Silversea In December 2018, it could have been the same voyage from Ushuaia we took; a dreadful flight from Santiago to Ushuaia and back, cattle class all the way and a really bad cattle class at that.

Incidentally, there are five continents, one of which is ours, not seven.

 

[VPS]

Except that we went to Antarctica with Silversea In December 2018, it could have been the same voyage from Ushuaia we took; a dreadful flight from Santiago to Ushuaia and back, cattle class all the way and a really bad cattle class at that.

Incidentally, there are five continents, one of which is ours, not seven.

There are seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.

Which ones don't you count?

 

[Flying mermaid]

Except that we went to Antarctica with Silversea In December 2018, it could have been the same voyage from Ushuaia we took; a dreadful flight from Santiago to Ushuaia and back, cattle class all the way and a really bad cattle class at that.

Incidentally, there are five continents, one of which is ours, not seven.

We were in January so probably the cruise after you and yes Santiago to Ushuaia was pretty bad.
traditionally the seven continents are

North America
South America
Antarctica
Australia
Africa
Europe
Asia

I guess you could get to 5 if you combine North and South America and Europe and Asia but not when I did Geography which granted is a long time ago

Continent - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[takenbyaliens]

Flying Mermaid when I did geography and did all the maps at school in the 60's we had the same seven continents !!

 

[bluebean]

A lot of SYD, HBA and LST flights and only a few Asian sectors Internationally in 2019.

Planning our first Oneworld Award in 2020.

Sectors: 60

Miles: 40,974

New Airport: PEN

Shortest Flight: LST-MEL

Longest Flight: MEL-HKG

 

[takenbyaliens]

In Addition to previous:

Forgot new airports to be added: PRG ZRH TXL GVA
New airlines to be added: LX

 

[eagleflyer]

My busiest year ever with a regular commute from Sydney to Singapore starting in May and a lot of travel around Asia.

Sectors: 89 (previous record 34)
Miles: 231,226km / 143677 miles (previous record 126,880km)
New airlines: CA, FY, TG, MI, AI, MU, UL, PG,
New aircraft: A359, A321NEO, ATR72-500
New airports: CBR, HKT, CMB, BAH, PVG, SHA, PEK, DEL, XSP, SZB
Shortest flight: SIN-KUL
Longest flight: SYD-SIN
Best new experience: First class on SQ (777) and Business class on CA A359 (mainly because it was better than I expected)

 

[Beano]

74 flights for me.
All in Y and mostly Australia domestic. All start NZ.
No new airline
No new aircraft
New airport HTI
Shortest flight. Mel- CBR
Longest SYD-DBX ( part of WLG-SYD-DBX-GLA in one trip)

 

[lepetitprince]

11 segments
33865 KMS
1 new airline
1 new city/airport


BTW, what kind of work do you guys do to be able to live in the air and come down to normal life with us plebs once in a while??!!!

 

[cmon0005]

New airline: AA
New aircraft: A321neo
New airports: LAX, LGA, JFK, MCO, DCA
Shortest flight: LGA-DCA
Longest flight: LAX-BNE
Best new experience: QF787 J LAX-BNE

 

[Philjbod101]

A busy year with a new job involving quite a bit of travel and a partner who’s addicted to o/s holidays. 52 sectors 24 domestic 28 international for 152,796 km (95,070 miles)

New airlines: GA, PR, BI (Royal Brunei)
New airports: LOP, DPS, MNL, BWN,
Shortest flight: LOP-DPS (122 kms)
Most frequent route travelled: CBR- SYD x16
Longest flight: MNL-MEL (6320 kms)h
Best New Experience: crayfish laksa in the Singapore Qantas First Lounge

 

[JohnM]

Most frequent route travelled: CBR- SYD x16

 

[michaelangelo]

Sectors: 21
Miles: 42,846 (4 days in the air on the dot)
New airlines: Mango Air, Auric Air, Coastal Aviation, South African
New aircraft: A359, Cessna Caravan
New airports: LAS, DEN, JNB, CPT, DAR, MFA, ZNZ, WDH
Shortest flight: DAR - ZNZ (45 miles)
Longest flight: SYD - LAX

 

[Lynda2475]

Flights: 29 (30 Sectors)
Distance Flown: 80,871Kms / 50,245 Miles
Airlines: QF, BA
Classic Reward Flights: 2
New Airports: HKG, LEA
Shortest Flight: SYD-MEL
Longest Flight: JFK - SYD

 

[Astro]

Sectors: 92
Miles: 119,600
New Airports -
US: MSP, DEN, PHX
AU: MEB, KNS, TSV
Asia: TDX

Shortest Flight: MEB-KNS (that was fun!)
Longest Flight: BNE-LAX

2020 resolution is to track my travel better - I think I missed quite a few flights

 

[PineappleSkip]

47 Sectors in 2019 for 96,003 miles
New airline: IB
New aircraft: ET 737-Max 8, 7 weeks before ET302
New airports: EBB, LIS, MAD, NCE and WTB
Shortest flight: ADD-HGA and vv, 363 miles, several times
Longest flight: DXB-BNE
Best new experience: FRA-DXB-BNE in EK F
...although FRA-DXB was the only new bit
Best old experience: Again avoided BFOD on dubious East African airlines.

cheers skip

 

[Mattg]

2019 was probably my best year of travel so far. At 77 sectors this wasn't the most flights I've taken in a year, but I did fly the most miles - with over half of those miles flown in J. What kept things interesting was that I did not fly the same route more than 3 times last year, and visited every continent except Antartica (although I did fly over Antarctica a couple of times). Lots of new experiences and my travels included 32 countries in 2019.

New airlines: LX, OA, KM, OS, KL, SN, G3, AD, SW, AI, AY, CA
New airports: MCT, MSQ, LCA, MLA, IAD, GRZ, ZRH, GVA, MRS, BRU, RUH, BAH, WGA, DRW, WDH, DEL, JAI, HEL
New aircraft types: Boeing 737 MAX 8, Boeing 737-900ER
Longest flight: SCL-SYD
Shortest flight: VIE-GRZ
Best flight: QR J WDH-DOH
Worst flight: AI Y JAI-DEL

 

[higheden]

So what did you manage this year? Did you get to go somewhere new, or was it just the weekly commute?

I managed 81 flights and just over 150,000 miles.

New airline: UL
New aircraft: B748
New airports: AMS, BLR, CGK, CMB, DEL, EDI, ICN and JHB
Shortest flight: KUL-JHB (155 miles)
Longest flight: SIN-LHR
Best new experience: LH F

We finished 2019 on 38 flights, down a few on 2018. No idea how many miles they equate to.
No new aircraft.
Shortest flights: Jaipur to Delhi, AKL to WLG
Longest flight: SIN - LHR, Dubai to Brisbane
New airlines: Air Atilia, Air India, Air Lingus
Fav air plane is still the A380
Fav airline still Emirates for comfort and space and Air NZ for the service.
6 Cruises: Princess x 2, Celebrity x 2, Hurtigruten x 1, Avalon River Cruise x 1
23 countries, down 5 on 2018:
Australia, NZ, Singapore, England, France, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Germany,, Ireland, Iceland, Wales, UAE, Norway, Italy, Greece, Jordan, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vatican City
11 first time countries:
India, Greece, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Jordan, UAE, Iceland, Ireland, Vatican City
28 rental cars
Highlights: Northern Lights, Tromso, Norway. Petra, Jordan, everything in India, road trip round Ireland, Tintern Abby in Wales, Suez Canal.

 

[jb747]

Well, for me it was the lowest number of flying hours since 1973.

Melbourne-Singapore return, twice, and Sydney-Singapore-London-Singapore-Melbourne. Added up to 73 hours.

As a passenger:
Albury-Melbourne-Albury * 2
Albury-Sydney
Melbourne-Wellington-Melbourne
Melbourne-Los Angeles-Las Vegas and return
Melbourne-Singapore-Zurich, Milan-Singapore-Melbourne
Albury-Sydney-Coolangatta, and return.