Re: 2015 in review
This year has been another great year of travel! At 78 flights I've done more sectors this year than any other so far, and visited a number of new countries and destinations.
New airports: HAJ, BCN, OPO, ORY, GIG, SDU, CGH, POA, VCP, DFW, LGA, YUL, ZQN, CFS, JNB, CPT, PLZ, DUR, HDS, LVI, TSV, PER, BME, HNL, KOA, BKQ, LRE, BCI.
Airlines: QF (31), JQ (12), JJ (5), BA (5), AA (4), AB (3), TT (3), HG (2), 4U (2), FR (2), AC (2), SA (2), HA (2), EK (1), NZ (1), VA (1)
Best flight: It is too difficult to pick one! But all of my favourite flights for the year have been on Qantas. QF8 and QF63 were most enjoyable long-haul flights, even though I was in Y. But trying out the new QF A330 J suites on a BNE-PER flight was pretty special too.
Worst flight: I've had a few shockers this year! A couple of horrible overnight flights on AA and JQ come in as close runner-ups, but the worst flight of the year would have to be (what was supposed to be) a simple one hour domestic flight in Brazil on TAM. The CGH-CNF flight diverted to VCP, but this was just the start. For reasons I still don't understand, we were sent back to CGH on buses (almost 3 hours in the wrong direction) before being put on another bus in Sao Paulo for the 9 hour journey to CNF. There was no virtually no communication and we were fed a single sandwich throughout the ordeal. I eventually arrived in Belo Horizonte on a bus at around 5am the next day. We were supposed to arrive around 18 hours earlier at 11am!
I don't imagine that I'll be doing quite as much flying next year. But hopefully there'll be a few more flights in the pointy-end, thanks to points.