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Post by tonyspeke on Jan 1, 2016 22:44:20 GMT 1
This Thursday, 7th January, I will celebrate passing one million miles flown on commercial airline flights, when I fly from Liverpool to Dublin on Ryanair flight FR442.
This does not include the small number of flights I have made on non-commercial aircraft.
Many people will have reached this landmark, as they fly regularly for business, but non of the miles I have flown have been paid for by others.
The mileage is the direct distance between the departure and arrival airports.
I will have flown many miles more, as no aircraft flies directly and some involve flying around holding patterns.
Also, a number of flights have zero mileage, as the aircraft has landed back at the same airport. Such flights have been pleasure flights, such as the infamous Aer Lingus Fokker 50 flight in 1993, or sight seeing fights like those I have flown around Moscow and to the volcano in Petropavlovsk. An annoying zero miles was the last time I flew FR442 to Dublin when the aircraft was unable to land there due to a police incident nearby and we ended up landing back at Liverpool 68 minutes after we took off!
Thursday’s flight will be my 1284th commercial flight. It will be the 184th time I have taken off from Liverpool. When I come back in the evening it will be the 190th time I’ve landed at Liverpool.
I have flown with 176 different airlines on 63 different types of aircraft.
I know a number of enthusiasts who have flown more miles, have you?
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Post by calflier on Jan 2, 2016 6:24:01 GMT 1
I am approaching 1000,flights,Will get back with the amount types,Unlike you a number of my flights were for the companies I have worked for,74 F27, sectors alone.but well done to you, Tony,an impressive figure.
Calflier.
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Post by ronturner on Jan 2, 2016 7:40:48 GMT 1
Impressive. I do not know how many miles I did, I never added them up in the way you have. Anyway I am sure it has not reached anything like those above and I reckon about 80% of my miles were paid for by the various companies I worked for. Very well done on the number of departures from Liverpool too.
RT
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Post by kuga59 on Jan 2, 2016 13:30:31 GMT 1
Tony
Incredible!
Have you worked out how much time you have spent in the air? Never mind the cost?
Kuga59
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Post by calflier on Jan 2, 2016 15:32:16 GMT 1
This Thursday, 7th January, I will celebrate passing one million miles flown on commercial airline flights, when I fly from Liverpool to Dublin on Ryanair flight FR442. This does not include the small number of flights I have made on non-commercial aircraft. Many people will have reached this landmark, as they fly regularly for business, but non of the miles I have flown have been paid for by others. The mileage is the direct distance between the departure and arrival airports. I will have flown many miles more, as no aircraft flies directly and some involve flying around holding patterns. Also, a number of flights have zero mileage, as the aircraft has landed back at the same airport. Such flights have been pleasure flights, such as the infamous Aer Lingus Fokker 50 flight in 1993, or sight seeing fights like those I have flown around Moscow and to the volcano in Petropavlovsk. An annoying zero miles was the last time I flew FR442 to Dublin when the aircraft was unable to land there due to a police incident nearby and we ended up landing back at Liverpool 68 minutes after we took off! Thursday’s flight will be my 1284th commercial flight. It will be the 184th time I have taken off from Liverpool. When I come back in the evening it will be the 190th time I’ve landed at Liverpool. I have flown with 176 different airlines on 63 different types of aircraft. I know a number of enthusiasts who have flown more miles, have you? Would you believe it,66 types,you should have come on that DC6 charter. |
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Post by Samba on Jan 2, 2016 16:08:38 GMT 1
Can I count mine Steve, although I lost count of my air miles quite a few years ago. I have to say that the Dreamliners I now fly on are one of the finest aircraft to operate and that includes the lovely Viscount that first took me to the Isle of Man many moons ago.
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Post by calflier on Jan 2, 2016 18:18:22 GMT 1
Can I count mine Steve, although I lost count of my air miles quite a few years ago. I have to say that the Dreamliners I now fly on are one of the finest aircraft to operate and that includes the lovely Viscount that first took me to the Isle of Man many moons ago. Hi Bob,go on count up the types,and yes I like the Dreamliner,flew to Haneda on one when they first entered service with ANA,only had 146 seats in less than an EZY 319,it was a great flight,and the Viscount flew on both the 700 and 800,now that certainly dates me Regards Calflier. |
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Post by kevmul on Jan 2, 2016 18:30:34 GMT 1
Tony Incredible! Have you worked out how much time you have spent in the air? Never mind the cost? Kuga59 I store all my flights on Flight Diary - www.flightdiary.netOnly been collecting my info since 2007 but have clocked up 76 flights covering 176,186 miles. Flight Diary tells me I've flown 7.1 times around the world, 14 domestic and 62 international flights, been in the air for 391 hours and used up 34.7 tons of carbon dioxide. Loads of fun information on this website - longest flights (LHR to SIN), most popular routes (MAN to LHR), most popular aircraft flown (B744)and so on. I find it a really good reference source. Kev |
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Post by ronturner on Jan 2, 2016 19:23:42 GMT 1
This very interesting.
I googled the round trip to and from London to Sydney as 23,000 miles. That's 43 round trips to make a million,and I reckon I must have neared half of that in the 20+ years I was working for Philips. In addition to that, in my last job for a Bristol Company I flew to and from Raleigh, usually once a month, usually coming back via Orlando, so say 8000 round trip works out at more than 250K in 3 years
A stint to and from USA, Asia and Africa for a few years working for AT&T and then self employed working for various others mainly in Eastern Europe with the odd trip to Taiwan via Hong Kong.
Nearly all of this was in business class with the odd upgrade to first.
Then I have to add endless trips to Amsterdam, Glasgow and Edinburgh. not to mention almost everywhere else in Europe and holidays too, including the Far East, Japan and the USA since my daughter was married and went out there 16 years ago.
There are many places I have never visited such as New Zealand, Canada and South America.
At one time I kept a record of all my flights as a passenger, including my first in the Fox Moth, G-AOJH, but these records went astray at some stage.
Its a bit odd that my last job was in manufacturing video phones and video conferencing equipment, and yet the appetite for business travel has not been sated.
Very thought provoking thread.
Edit. I edited this post because I missed out the words "half of that" in the first paragraph. Ron
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Post by kuga59 on Jan 5, 2016 18:32:23 GMT 1
This post seems to be generating some interesting facts and memories.
I've flown a fair bit but nothing like some of you guys.
My first flight was from LPL to IOM in a BEA Pioneer in 1959. I can still remember having to walk uphill to get to my seat. The stewardess coming around with barley sugars and watching out of the window as the sea got nearer and nearer and then there was the cliff top and runway.
It was another 10 years until I flew again.
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