Just hit it! DL 777 ATL-LAX tonight put me over the top, and now a thousand miles into my second million. If I keep this 300K miles/year pace, I might hit that next mark pretty soon!
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Just hit it! DL 777 ATL-LAX tonight put me over the top, and now a thousand miles into my second million. If I keep this 300K miles/year pace, I might hit that next mark pretty soon!
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Originally Posted by ColoAvs19
I had not seen this because we were in BUD...
Congrats!!!
I am now off to IST this weekend....
Better hurry up and get to IST. I just entered the 7 commercial flights I took in the last 48 hours and I'm up to 1,032,419 now......Passed you! I have a couple more flights in 30 hours.....and just booked the trip after that..
Although I'm pretty burnt out, and currently sick....I'll slow down a bit eventually
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Originally Posted by ColoAvs19
Lol!!!
I knew you would!
How can I compete, with my 50,000 miles a year compared to your 300,000...
IST was fantastic!!
Got biz elite both ways too.
You went to IST when you were with DL, didn't you?
Do you guys wear odometers or something?
The Flightmemory website keeps track as we enter the information.Quote:
Originally Posted by 29palms
Luckily, I only flew two times before age 18 so I could remember the stats.....
A million miles? I am impressed! I doubt that I'll travel that many in my entire life.
You probably have but you just don't keep track.
Calculate this for me. Say I went from Philippines to IAH via NRT 3 times there and back, Iah-EWR-Bej-Mnl-Nrt-Iah, say SPN-GUM-HNL, HNL-GUM-SPN, SPN-MNL, 3 times and back, SPN-GUM-NRT-SFO-ORD-BOS-JAX-DET-NGO-GUM-SPN, SPN-GUM-NRT-IAH and back like 4 times, Jax-Atl-Sfo-HKG-Singapore-Diego Garcia, back via Diego-Singapore-Nrt-Seattle-Chicago-Jax.
That's not even the tip of it but lets assume 22 trips across the Pacific Ocean at least say from average of Guam to say average of Chicago. Is that a million alone there? I'm not even talking to South America, or Europe, or little hoppers all over the place.
GUM-NRT-ORD is 7832 X 22 trips is 172304
I just happen to have started flying at a time that flightmemory.com was available. It is a neat thing to keep track of the flights I take, and to see a map of the routes I've flown.
It's also very helpful to me as I can't always remember where I was on a particular date, but I can look at my log and find out right away.
I just went to a site that calculates distances, and I'll say, man, it does take a crud load of travel to break a million. I doubt I even have that. Calculating 22 trips across the Pacific (minimully) only calculates to like 6683 Iah-Nrt, and like IAH-Mnl only 8593 or something close to that. It's impossible to calculate for me, to try to remember all of my flights, but it looks like I would probably be short of a million miles. (That's a shittle load of miles.)
But all those miles you travel in break of a miles travelled record, you basically fly over alot of neat places. Too much time on seat. Best to hit the most countries you can, and hard to get to places that most never see. It's a neat world, many hidden jewels, can never cover all in one life time.
Exactly!
I spend 25-31 days every month riding around on airplanes, or working them if I park in 1 location for any period of time. I averaged over 800 miles/day last year.
I actually enjoy driving to places(if I don't get a ticket), or taking the train in the northeast US. Sometimes I get tired of sitting in the airplane...sometimes.
But I never imagined I'd end up in Diego Garcia, or Mozambique, or Suriname, etc, etc.
There are tons of incredible places to see. Nobody will ever get to them all, but I'll get to as many as I can
Actually, I kind of envy those bicycle long distance cross country types. I wish I had the time to do something like that with a good strong bike. See alot of neat backroads. Not only that but keep you feeling in great shape. I been riding a bike on slow nights at work about maybe like two miles or so, it makes alot of difference afterwards. I feel great. I'm in the market for a bicycle, nothing fancy. I was eye balling a mountain bike at Walmart for around 88 bucks, 21 speed bike. That's about all I need. Something to get me into a little low impact riding, flex those knees around, build up your lungs. I remember as a kid, I went all over the place on bikes. Ride down to the boys club, over to the school, miles and miles of bike riding every day. Be gone for a long time. Nobody freaked about getting kidnapped or anything like that.