Where have you flown this year?

[Santander]

North America



Transatlantic + Europe




Intra-Asia + Eurasia



Transpacific + Polar

(incl. some travel booked this summer)

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June/July - Flying AA/BA for dem Tier Points... chasing Gold Guest List.

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August through Labor Day:



September should see more trips to Vancouver/San Francisco, and weekly trips to Boston should start up again soon, too. Will probably live out of a suitcase and fly a BOS-SFO-YVR-BOS triangle until October. Been discussing with mates and colleagues about flying to Japan for Rugby World Cup in November, but it'll be a last-minute decision for me.

[Santander]

My flying has accelerated to a point where I can barely keep track anymore. I sometimes spend 2 nights a week on redeyes or longhauls.

Late Sept + Oct:



November will be relatively light by my standards, and I don't expect too much new. Back and forth between YVR/SFO and BOS/NYC, no more than one transcon a week. Perhaps a trip to Chicago thrown in there. Maybe another trip to London or Zurich.

December will be quite busy. Mostly in Europe.

[Santander]

Final flights of 2019.

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2020:



I was recently informed that I will no longer have carte blanche to travel whenever and wherever I want for work. Post-corona, gotta follow the same policy as everyone else. Will be very hard to maintain United 1K, American Plat, and BA Gold at the same time.

[Santander]

IAD-LIS-ZAG; DBV-ZAG-LIS-IAD

Been taking advantage of the cheap TAP business class fares? They used to be only cheap when originating from Europe, but it's great to have such a good value transatlantic option from the US now, too. The A330neos and A321XLRs are both great, and the food/drink is way better than on US airlines. (granted, very low bar)

But Lisbon airport kinda sucks and their European business class is pretty bad compared to BA or Lufthansa, but you get what you pay for I guess.

[Santander]

Very bumpy landing in Vegas thanks to the wind.

I don't mean this as a criticism of Nevada lest Joe Republic flog me again (we will continue to disagree on that general topic), but the vast majority of the time I've flown into Vegas, it's been a wild landing. Takeoff seems ok. I'd say probably 95% of the landings were notably bumpy. I suppose something about the geographic conditions with the mountains? When I was riding on Colombian Air Force planes back in the day, even their landings on dirt runways in the desert or the jungle were smoother on average than LAS. Or it might just have been the time of day -- I almost always was on 1 of 2 flights from the East Coast.

It was about 1:30-2 PM when I landed, for reference. Take off was fine. I’ve only been to Vegas’s airport once before and I was 6, so I don’t really remember that flight.

From looking at pilot fora, it seems as though this is an effect known as "the bubble" at LAS -- because the Las Vegas Valley is hotter than surrounding areas because of the development-related heat island, combined with the mountains ringing most of it, there is a localized meteorological effect that makes descending turbulent but doesn't really affect ascent.

Planes are aerodynamically dirtier (slats, gear, flaps, etc) and slower on approach than climb, so they'll have more exposure to thermal turbulence.

[Santander]

Super light travel year. (incl Milan trip)

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More than you peons.

[Santander]

North America:



Transatlantic:



Europe:

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[Santander]

IAD-YOW-YFB-YOW-DCA

Nice... true explorer. Is this trip planned, or did you already go?

[Santander]

Few new ones - got my first polar flight in a while.

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Wraps for 2023.