Your 2024 year of travel in review

[Drakecula]

Clearly I need to take more notes of trips... I only flew economy this year. Lots of work trips, so no doubt I ended up in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide at least once this year.
CBR-SYD-LAX-LAS and back again in June - that was our biggest trip I think!
Then SYD-HND, NRT-NAN, NAN-CBR just recently.

Best flight would have been SYD-HND. We flew Japan Airlines and the seats were comfy, food was good, entertainment was entertaining, no complaints.
Worst flight... I don't think any were terrible, but I do recall feeling a bit nervous for a BNE-CBR flight. A storm was coming, and the pilot essentially told us we're going to beat the storm, so hurry up and buckle in. We took off into the oncoming clouds and I remember looking over at my colleague and asking if they had ever been in a plane when it got struck by lightning before. Pretty sure we came through unzapped, but it was a bumpy ride for a good while there!

 

[AIRwin]

New airports visited: XMN

Same for me!

Thread 'Another taste of Xiamen summer'

Aug 6, 2024

Now that China is visa free, I thought of taking this opportunity for a side trip while I was travelling to Singapore/Thailand/Malaysia. I've already been to the major cities of Beijing and Shanghai, as well as Shenzhen, and narrowed my choice of destination down to Chengdu, Chongqing and Xiamen. I heard that summer in Sichuan is unbearable so decided on Xiamen in the end. I came across a brief trip report by @NSun as part of my planning:

A taste of Xiamen summer & Qantas First and several bites of the Pier - 2018

In light of the travel restrictions right now I've been looking back on some of the trips I've taken in years gone by. For my first AFF trip report here is one of the more intriguing I took - to Hong Kong and Xiamen in July 2018. I fell in love with Hong Kong visiting in July 2016 and this was...

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Total flights: 33 so far + another 2 to go before year end (38 in 2023, 36 in 2022, 27 in 2021, 22 in 2020 and 62 in 2019)
Countries: Australia, China (including Hong Kong), Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates + Vietnam after Christmas
Airlines: CX, EK, JQ, QF, SQ, TR, VA + AK on New Year's Eve
First Class lounges: CX, EK, QF, SQ

 

[andye]

A pretty subdued 2024 in the air for me but still achieved OWS (via IB) and Points Club Plus
Flights: 8 (5J 3Y)
Miles: 23522
New airports: HND BSL ZRH
A much more active 2025 planned

 

[jswong]

• Number of flights: 80 (20 Y, 6 PE, 49 J, 5 F)
• Countries visited: 17
• New airports visited: LIS, GUM, MAJ, KWA, TKK, KSA, PNI, MLA, TOS, MLA, HAN, DAD
• New airlines flown: Vietnam Airlines, KM Malta
• Miles 137K, KM 221K. Dont think I will ever beat my peak of 200K miles in 2010
• Not sure what my best flight was but perhaps most scenic was the island hopper