How much have you flown in 2014.

[Flying mermaid]

2015 I will use AFF TRracker, but this is my guesstimate for 2014

51 sectors - all leisure (if one can call going to funerals leisure - did a fair bit of that in 2014). International was all F and J (apart from things like Fed Air and TFC which were tiny planes). Domestic was a mixture. I have discovered the joys of buying a cheap Y fare and then using points to upgrade. Did one upgrade internationally from J to F, but have decided not to do that again - I don't like playing the upgrade lottery internationally.

29 Qantas/Qantaslink
7 American Airlines
4 Tanganika Flying Company
3 Federal Air South Africa
3 Emirates
2 Comair/BA
2 South African Airways
1 Kenyan Air

Kenyan Air was the biggest surprise - oldish planes but the service and food in J was excellent - much better than SAA.

I am probably a rusted on Qantas flyer, but was impressed with Emirates - particularly the shower and ability to order meals whenever you wanted to. Will definitely be flying them again, but won't be abandoning Qantas either.

2015 is looking a quieter year - 30 odd sectors already planned/booked and not anticipating much more than that although things can (and usually do) change.

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

Quiet 2014.
Did three visits to USA plus four to Asia. No Japan this year and very little Australian domestic, less than six.

Did sign up to use BA97.com so I can report on what really happens in 2015.

Cheers
BF

 

[abc12345678]

Don't have stats as per above format. I use TripIt to manage all my bookings and it tells me this for 2014:

Trips: 47
Days: 153
Distance: 275,282 km
Cities: 31
Countries: 9

Each 'trip' would contain a minimum of two flights, sometimes four, and in the rare case six.

 

[Intra]

Now that I'm back from Perth, let me pull some numbers from the Flight Tracker to add to the collection:


Flights: 31 (All on VA)
BIS Miles: 21953 miles


Airports Visited: 9 (In order of Frequency, Departures/Arrivals)
SYD (?!), BNE, OOL, MEL, PER, AKL, MKY, ROK, ADL
Aircrafts Flown: 4/5 (Depending on if/how you distinguish the ATRs in VA's fleet; Most common first)
B738, E190, A332, ATR500/600
Class Flown: 23 Y/8 J (75%/25%)
Class Flown by Distance: 57% Y/43% J, One of the stats that has made me happy!


Best Flight: Any flight where its a seamless experience from drop-off at Point of Origin til arrival at destination, no waiting in queues, relaxing in The Lounge, & without having to worry about checked baggage (Light packer that has avoided taking on checked baggage like the plague...). Oh, and my 3 sectors to/from PER, all on A332s, all in J, 1st in old config, next two flights on newer config (Including my last flight of the year on Christmas Day). Heaven compared to Y
Worst Flight: Toss up between my first, and hopefully my only, Red-Eye PER-BNE on a new J A332. Little sleep and nearly threw up breakfast cause my body wasn't awake proper, but it had been a very busy weekend visiting people and with meetings before I had to return to work on Monday - Lasted til Midday before I called it quits....
ANNND AKL-BNE, packed flight, rude check-in agent that didn't bother with an express pass or priority baggage tags and couldn't give a stuff moving me into an empty Row 2 cause it was Y+, which was hilarious since I was already in Row 3 anyway on a VA-NZ B738. /end whinge
Interesting Flight: BNE-OOL, initially flying SYD-OOL but diverted to BNE with the B738 needing a longer runway with some random tech issue (No danger to us at all); BNE was closer to my home, but of course I had my car parked back at OOL.... Swap of A/C, new gate, off we went for 15 extra minutes in the sky


I was going very well with leisure trips up until mid-year when I quit my job and started studies full-time. Unless I find some sort of work soon, I'll drop to Gold in May, which wouldn't be the end of the world (But still )
Here's to a bigger and better year of flying, hopefully also somewhere outside AU/NZ!!