2011 travel - what were yours like?

[SQflyergirl]

I'm still working it out and all... but what were your travel totals and highlights for 2011?

[9V-JKL]

Have not totalled up but the highlight would have been taking my daughter to Disneyland for the 1st time and seeing how happy she was. She did not know in advance we were going.

[milehighj]

Still working it all out too, but at least 65 segments over 187,357 BIS miles.

- 1x op-up (CGK-SIN)
- 1x go-around (CDG)



Highlight was a mid-summer trip to a certain European city, involving my first time sitting on the lower deck of an SQ A388, and the company of a couple of prominent SQT'ers (one of whom sang a song).

[kapitan]

highlight was flying into Caracas, Venezuela .... expecting hassle at immigration and customs but surprisingly walk out of airport in less then 30 minutes......



then discovering that the price of petrol is 1 cent per liter...



and stepping back in time.... (in Singapore, this is a sculpture depicting the old days...)




then there was a trip to Panama City and seeing an amazing glass tower.... so surreal...

[SQflyergirl]

Ok - here it is: 82 Segments, 120,635 B-I-S miles + 1 flight to nowhere of about 200 miles

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=kul-sin...kk-cnx-bkk-kul

Too much: Air Asia
Too little: SQ R

Highlights:

Shortest flight: 11 miles from Monaco Heliport to Nice Airport (felt like a total movie star)
Longest: KUL-LHR
First time: RJ/MS/Buddha Air/Spanair/Sri Lankan/New LX weird-J/TK new J/DME

For 2012: 93106 miles ticketed so far already and raring to go:
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=kul-bkk...in-mel-dxb-kul

Looking forward to the

1)MH380,
2)Cirrus CX J (i have one scheduled on a regional, hoping to not get TGéd),
3)renewing acquaintances with LA/JJ/TK,
4)lots of EK F suites,
5)UA IPTE F
6)Trying Avianca BR, A3

[kapitan]

Are we also discussing 2012?

first flight for the year will be tomorrow, SIN-BKK-ARN and looking forward to staying at Hotel Rival, again....

[9V-SIA]

Jan
SIN-NRT SQ 744 J
NRT-SIN SQ 744 J

Feb
SIN-NRT-LAX SQ 744 F
LAX-NRT-SIN SQ 744 F

Mar
SIN-MXP-BCN SQ 77W J
BCN-MXP-SIN SQ 77W J
SIN-PEN MI 319 J
PEN-SIN MI 320 J

Apr
SIN-HKG SQ 772 J
HKG-SIN SQ 772 J
SIN-PEN MI 319 J
PEN-SIN MI 320 J
SIN-LHR SQ 388 R

May
LHR-SIN SQ 77W F
SIN-PVG SQ 772 J
PVG-SIN SQ 772 J
SIN-PEN MI 319 J
PEN-SIN MI 320 J

Jun
SIN-LHR SQ 77W F
LCY-BLQ AF RJ85 Y
FLR-LCY AF RJ85 Y
LHR-SIN SQ 77W F

Jul
SIN-KIX SQ 333 J
KIX-SIN SQ 333 J
SIN-BCN SQ 77W F
BCN-LHR BA 320 Y
LHR-SIN SQ 77W F
SIN-DPS SQ 772 Y

Aug
DPS-SIN SQ 772 Y
SIN-HKG SQ 772 J
HKG-SIN SQ 772 J
SIN-FRA-JFK SQ 744 F

Sep
EWR-SIN SQ 345 J

Oct
SIN-FRA-JFK SQ 744 F
LGA-ORD UA 757 F
ORD-LGA UA 320 F
SIN-EWR SQ 345 J

Nov
SIN-PEN MI 319 J
PEN-SIN MI 320 J

Dec
SIN-FRA-JFK SQ 744 F
EWR-DEN CO 738 Y
DEN-EWR CO 738 Y
JFK-FRA-SIN SQ 744 F

BIS 164,513 miles

[CarbonMan]

My destinations are hardly half as exciting as Kapitan's.

Records for 2011:
Longest International:
Origin-Destination = SIN-DME-IAH = 11154 miles (great circle) x 3 trips
Non-Stop = SIN-EWR = 9535 miles x 3 trips

Shortest International:
Non-Stop = SIN-IST = 5388 miles x 1 trip

The rest somewhere in between - too tedious to add up, but nothing close to the above members! All on SQ J except 2 flights (thank God)

Longest delay = 23.5 hours

Free upgrades = None

Eventful flights = None - no massive turbulence, no go-arounds, no near crashes

Worst part of flying = long immigration/security queues, long wait for baggage

Funniest story = American colleague, not knowing how to flip open J bed, sits throughout 18 hour flight EWR-SIN (And too much of a man, to accept help from a sarong kebaya girl!)

[B727]

...In The Air, On Land, and Seeeeea!

2011 Sweet And Low, Sayonara Sugar

The Four Seasons of Highlights

Spring 2011
Jan: Bringing sexy (not sharks!) back to the Seychelles before the Royal Honeymoon came to town (flight: EK F A340-500 mini-suites)
March: Miami Madness (flight: the new ContUnited )
New hotels: W Austin, TX, The Nines Portland, OR, The St Regis Bangkok, The Ritz Carlton Hong Kong, Hotel Georgia Vancouver, BC

Summer 2011
June: Brasilianising in Rio (EK F B777-300ER free-flowing DP mini-suite DXB-GRU/G3 CGH-SDU peanuts and a guarana zero )
July: Montreal, QC, Canada (AC Executive First great outbound YVR-YUL)
July: Fun Ferry Commute: BC Ferries Tsawassen - Swartz Bay vv

Autumn 2011
October: Honolulu (CI F BKK-TPE-NRT-HNL vv)
November: Whistler, BC, Canada (CI J TPE-YVR vv)

Winter 2011
December: SQing to South America Yay! (SQ F SIN-BCN-GRU vv)
December: Sending out 2011 with a Bang!/Bangkoking (SQ J SIN-BKK)

And the B727 Excellence En Vol mentions go to:

Seeing Green: Top 6 SQ Green Kebayas
Ms A (SQ 861, May 2011)
Ms E (SQ 68, BCN-GRU, Dec 2011)
Ms S (SQ 2, Sep 2011)
Ms J (SQ 67, BCN-SIN, Dec 2011)
Ms M (SQ 860, SIN-HKG, Apr 2011)
Ms Z (SQ 67, GRU-BCN, Dec 2011)

Top 3 SQ Green Ties
Mr. T (SQ 67, GRU-BCN)
Mr. D (SQ 68, BCN-GRU)
Mr. G (SQ 68, SIN-BCN)

Top Red Kebaya
Ms. C (SQ 863, HKG-SIN, May 2011)

Top 2 SQ FSS
Ms. N from Indonesia (SQ 68, SIN-BCN & SQ 67, BCN-SIN)
Ms. A from South Korea (SQ 973, BKK-SIN)

Top 3 EK Pursers
Ms. C from Indonesia
Ms. G from Lithuania
Ms. I from Egypt

Top 2 EK First Class Crew
Ms. N from Egypt
Mr. M from Turkey

Top 3 EK SFS
Ms. N from Indonesia
Ms. P from Thailand
Mr. A from Pakistan/UAE

Top 3 EK Business Class Crew
Ms. J from Uruguay
Mr. R from Lebanon
Ms. A from Ghana

********

2012: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

First trip of the Year: EK GIG inaugural!
Which has already yielded a hard-to-beat Best EK Purser and SFS so far

Looking forward to returning to KUL and SFO this Year of the Aquatic Dragon and more Starwood hotel openings

Sawadee pee mai na ka!

[SilverChris]

2011 statistics

("Most/Longest.." shown in descending order)
Most Flown Sectors: KUL/SIN (~45x), KUL/BKK (~25x), KUL/CGK (14x)
Most Flown Airlines: AK, FD, MH, MI, SQ, TG
Most Flown Aircraft Types: A320, B734, A333, B772
Most Flown Aircraft Rego.: 9M-AFQ (12x), 9M-AHA (10x), 9V-STI (10x), 9V-JSE (8x)
Most Passport Stamps: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, EU
Most Enjoyable Sectors: DXB-KUL (EK Y), LHR-SIN (SQ)
Longest Sector: KUL-TPE-LAX
Longest Delay: 13 Hours (MH)
Longest Immigration Queues: CGK, BKK
Longest Time to Retrieve Lost Ck-In Baggage: 1 Month (PEN)
Cheapest Flight (Own expense): USD7 (KUL-SIN, AK)


Highlights
EK's A380; Op-up on MH, TK; Meeting a fellow SQTalker in the KUL SKL; Birthday Surprise on SQ; Go-Around at SIN; Bags loaded onto wrong aircraft; Swimming on top of the world

Well, I've had better years when it comes to travel, but can't really complain seeing that my coming years will see much less flying

[nickbot]

Mine was disappointing to say the least (is there a prize for the lowest mileage total in 2011?!):

Jan 2011: LH Y ZRH-BHX
Dec 2011: BA Y LGW-BLQ-LGW, BE BHX-SZG

...2,704 miles

The BLQ turn was an unexpected business trip in early December, otherwise the total would've been 1,302! Thankfully, 18,515 already booked and ticketed for 2012

[SQflyergirl]

Thankfully, 18,515 already booked and ticketed for 2012

See you soonish then

[calvinoeh]

Definitely didn't expect to travel that much in 2011. Ended up with ~120K miles thanks to a couple of work trips to the states, unexpected good deals/mistakes and redemptions. End result was a ton of fun, wonderful memories and one too many days off work

Looking into 2012, have another 1-2 trips to the states for work again and hoping for a move/long term assignment. Have trips booked in EK suites and A380 F - shower here I come! Need to come up with a "Kyo like bathroom picture" Trying to find time for a trip to Bora Bora to burn all my BMI miles and Hilton points/free nights before they devalue..

[9V-JKL]

Longest Time to Retrieve Lost Ck-In Baggage: 1 Month (PEN)

[nickbot]

See you soonish then

Pretty soon yep