With 2011 behind us and 2012 now 3 days old, I thought now would be a good time to recap my travels over the past year. It has been my busiest year ever in regards to travel and I got to go to many new places and experience new cultures and cities. This year also was marked by being sent on a few business trips across the US, although the majority of my trips were still personal ones. This included my first trip to Asia (Japan), my first trip to Canada since the mid-90s, spending lots of time in NYC, earning Delta Gold Medallion and then later Platinum Medallion/Starwood Preferred Guest Gold/Hilton HHonors Silver status, rented a car for the first time, hiked a mountain, and “survived” the earthquake in Japan.
If statistics bore you, this is your chance to escape, otherwise lets break it down by the numbers:
Flights:
Number of Flight Segments: 77
Number of Airlines: 3 (Delta, Alaska, Horizon)
Total Flown Miles: 52,211
Time Spent In The Air: 6 Days, 11 Hours, 42 Minutes (Almost One Week!)
Average Flight Distance/Length: 678 mi / 2 Hours, 1 Minutes
Longest Flight: DTW-HND (Detroit to Tokyo-Haneda) 6412 mi / 13 Hours, 25 Minutes
Shortest Flight: PDX-SEA (Portland to Seattle) 129 mi / 41 Minutes
Aircraft Flown On: MD-88, CRJ-200, 757-200, 757-300, A320, DC-9-50, 737-800, A330-200, A330-300, CRJ-700, 747-400, Q400, CRJ-900, MD-90
Airports:
Airports Flown Into/Out Of/Through: ATL, BNA, BWI, DCA, DEN, DTW, ECP, EWR, HND, JFK, LAX, LGA, MCO, MEM, MLI, MSN, MSP, NRT, ORF, PDX, PHX, PIT, SEA, YUL
Top Five Airports: ATL, ECP, MEM, SEA, MCO
Number of Connections in ATL: 28
2011 Flights - Domestic/Canada
SkyMiles Earnings:
SkyMiles Status: Silver (2010) -> Gold (July) -> Platinum (November)
Total Medallion Qualification Miles Earned: 82,464
Total SkyMiles Earned: 209,273
Total SkyMiles Redeemed: 90,000 (3 Award Tickets)
Travels:
Countries: Canada, Japan (New)
Cities: Denver, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Madison, Moline, Montreal, Nashville, Norfolk, Orlando, New York City, Portland, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Tokyo, Washington DC
Other Places: Rocky Mountain National Park
Number of Trips: 17
Days “On The Road”: 58
Average Trip Length: 3.4 days/trip
Trip Frequency: 1.4 trips/month (There were some stretches where I was on the road every two weeks or greater between work and personal)
