Flights booked for 2006 (so far....)
 

TPA = Tampa

19-25JAN - TPA-DUB-TPA (Dublin) AA only
6-9FEB - TPA-LAS-TPA (Las Vegas) AA only
28FEB-1APR - TPA-GIG-MVD-EZE-SCL-IPC-LIM-TPA (Rio, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Easter Island, Lima) AA, BA and LAN
9-15MAY - TPA-NRT-TPA (Tokyo) AA only
13-18JUN - TPA-NGO-TPA (Nagoya) AA and JL

Most of these trips have connecting flights but I only listed stops. About 80K miles of actual flying by the end of June.

Plus in the last couple of years I averaged about 50K in the second half of the year and most of it in the last 3 months. I don't expect for that to change, but I don't know the destinations yet.

Happy flying to everybody!

That looks like a lot of fun. You will be in Tokyo during a Grand Sumo Tournament (www.sumo.or.jp) and it will be baseball season.

Only one-half of a trip:

1/2 MXP-EWR-IAH. And MXP will be a new airport "collection" for me.

About 50k qualifying miles on Air Canada, and one leg on CX or Dragonair:

YHZ-YUL-CDG return in early February.

Presently booking YHZ-YYZ-PEK, PEK-HKG, HKG-YYZ-YOW, YOW-YHZ in April.

I usually make a YHZ-YYZ trip bi-monthly to see my 97-year old dad. I use AC's City Pass, which is the slickest product ever offered. (Pre-pay 10 one way trips; book, change, cancel at any time; upgrade to J the day before the flight if space is available; 150% Q-miles for travelling in J).

YHZ-YUL-CDG again in the fall.

Ah, the joys of retirement!

Anselm

-SXM / CDG / FCO and return for a week in March.

-SXM / SJU / JFK and return for a week in April.

-SXM / MIA for a week and return in September.

I just wish that you can tell us where you are going and what airlines are you using as not all of us are so familiar with the airport and airline codes as you are. For example, YHZ-YYZ-PEK, PEK-HKG, HKG-YYZ-YOW, YOW-YHZ?

YHZ - Halifax, Nova Scotia
YOW - Ottawa, Ontario
YUL - Montreal, Quebec
PEK - Beijing, China
HKG - Hong Kong, China

SXM (from Statia's post) is St. Maaten in the Netherland Antilles. If you do a Google search or on airliners.net, you can find lots of pictures of planes flying over a nice beach, just feet over all the sunbathers. I'd say it has one of the most photogenic approach along with the old Kai Tak in Hong Kong (closed).

Oh, and YYZ is Toronto, Ontario.

SFO - I forgot the Newark abbreviation - TLV RT in March. NWR? EWR? on Continental.

What is MXP?

Newark is EWR.

MXP is Milan Malpensa. [Their other airport Linate is LIN.]

Pat2003, sorry for all the codes. I must have thought I was over at FlyerTalk!

In addition to the ones rkkwan mentioned, CDG is Paris.

Anselm

Nothing booked yet, but I have placed a tentative hold on the following award ticket and I will probably book in the next few days (I won't speak in codes):

Austin to London Gatwick
4.5 days later
London Gatwick to Madeira, Portugal to attend a wedding
Another 4.5 days later
Madeira to London Gatwick for overnight layover, home to Austin next day.

I had booked a trip to Egypt in January 2006, but I had to cancel due to an unfortunate turn of events. Thankfully it was booked as an award ticket, so no huge loss.

In addition, SJU is San Juan, Puerto Rico and FCO is Rome, Italy. Sorry for the code speak. :)

ORD-SIN-ORD in January, ORD-HKG-SIN-HKG-ORD in March....

Happy travels to all in 2006!!
Dave

march/april 2006 - BOS-CDG-KEF-BOS
One night on the way back soaking in the Blue Lagoon. Wish I could do more. This will probably be it for the year.

7 march: ito, hno, oak, sfo, lhr, lun, mfuwe and return 28 march. thinking botswana in november but we'll see

Detroit-Frankfurt-Paris-Detroit in March.
NWA (with European trains getting me from Paris to Frankfurt, with stops in Amsterdam and Brussels in between).

All those codes are making my head spin.

Happy flying to everyone

So far:

02/09/06 SAS Scandinavian Airlines
NRT(Tokyo)>CPH(Copenhagen)>(LHR)London

02/13/06 Ryanair (LHR) > (DUB) Dublin

07/15/06 Air Canada
(NRT) Tokyo > (YYZ) Toronto

Mar 8-14 Charleston - Paris
CHS-LGA-JFK-CDG
CDG-ATL-CHS
Delta Only

Apr 9-13 Charleston - London
CHS-ATL-LGW
LGW-ATL-CHS
Delta (onhold looking to switch to Continental)

Jun 17-20 Charleston - Los Angeles
CHS-ATL-LAX
LAX-ATL-CHS

Looking for something in August and between Christmas and New Years as well!

09/15/06 NRT(Tokyo)>BKK(Bangkok)> ATH (Athens)
09/25/06 ATH > BKK> NRT

here is the rest of the story...:-)

June 13-19 TPA-KIX-TPA (Osaka)
August TPA-SFO-TPA (San Francisco)
August SFO-DCA-SFO (Washington DC)
September TPA-ANC-TPA (Anchorage)
November TPA-LGW-TPA (London)
November TPA-DUB-TPA (Dublin)
December TPA-DUB-TPA (Dublin)

There will probably be at least 2 more trips, one to Chicago and one to ? but nothing confirmed just yet.

Here's mine:

March: ORD-TUL-ORD (Tulsa)
March: ORD-PHX-ORD (Phoenix)
March: ORD-OGG-ORD (Maui)
June: ORD-NCE-ORD (Nice)
June/July: ORD-JAX-ORD (Jacksonville)
July: ORD-NRT, KIX-ORD (Tokyo, Osaka)
October: ORD-LGA (New York)

Plus maybe a business trip or two. That will probably take me to about 40K EQMs (United), so I'll need to pick up another 10K later in the year.

1) Jan: LAX-IAD-PVD-IAD-LAX (Providence)
2) Feb: LAX-LAS-LAX* (Las Vegas)
3) Mar: LGB-LAS-LGB (LGB= Long Beach)
4) Mar: LAX-IAD-LAX (Washington Dulles)
5) Apr: SNA-SFO-NGO-SFO-SNA* (Nagoya)
6) May: LAX-ORD-SDF-ORD-LAX* (Louisville)
7) May: LAX-IAD-LAX
8) May: SNA-LAS-SNA (SNA=Orange County)
9) Jun: LGB-JFK-LGB* (jetBlue award)
10) Jun-Jul: LAX-LHR-DUB-LHR-LAX (Dublin)
11) Aug: LAX-HNL-LAX* (Honolulu)
12) Nov: LAX-SFO-HKG-SGN-HKG-SFO-LAX (HCMC, Vietnam)

* these 5 of the 12 tickets are "free"

That's 49000 miles on UA. If UA has the double-EQM offer then a MR (or is it DER for double EQM run) to EZE or SIN would keep me at 1K status (and use up my last two SWUs).

Jan LAX SEA
Feb SEA SNA
Feb SNA SEA
Jul SEA ORD
Jul ORD SEA
Jul SEA LAX
Jul LAX SEA
Aug SEA JFK
Aug JFK LHR
Aug LGW PRG (London Gatwick - Prague)
<i>Aug PRG LGW
Aug LGW MAD
Aug MAD JNB (Johannesburg)
Sept JNB CPT (Cape Town)
Sept CPT JNB
Sept JNB ZRH (Zurich)
Sept ZRH PRG</i>
Sept PRG LHR
Sept LHR BOS
Sept BOS DFW
Sept DFW SEA
Nov? SEA LAX
Nov? LAX NRT (Tokyo)
Nov? NRT LAX
Nov? LAX SEA
Dec SEA SNA
2007
Jan SNA SEA
Feb SEA EWR
Feb LGA YYZ (La Guardia - Toronto)
Feb YYZ MXP (Milan)
Feb MXP FCO (Rome)
Feb FCO LCA (Larnaca, Cyprus)
Mar? LCA TLV (Tel Aviv)
Mar? TLV LCA
Mar LCA FCO
Mar FCO JFK
Mar JFK YYZ
Mar YYZ LGA
Mar EWR SEA

<i>Italics</i> = award tickets.

Absent a whole heap of unplanned business or personal travel in the second half of the year, there's no way we'll renew our EXP status with AA; next year is more likely with a new RTW (perhaps piggybacked on the &quot;error&quot; trip to Cyprus sold by Alitalia a couple of months ago.)

AAFF:

&quot;TPA-LGW-TPA (London)&quot;

You're not going on American?

Most of the trips I posted involve connections. :-), I just didn't see a need to post the entire itn.

Yes it's AA, already upgraded, and the actual route is TPA-DFW-LGW-DFW-TPA.

If I get lucky, it may be 767 with the new J seats.....

It's all about the miles.......:-D

Gardyloo wins!

SF to Syndey in October (won RT airfare for two)
SF to Nashville in November ($170 RT, caught a short AA sale a few weeks ago)

...so far

Well, stupid me. I didn't realize AA flew into Gatwick. I thought they only flew to LHR.

2 flights a day from Dallas, a 777 and a 767
1 flight a day from Raleigh-Durham. a 777

I can't beat Gardyloo but I'll ad my flights to this thread. AA, sorry, I'm loyal to UA.

Early Jan 06, ORD-SJU-ORD for a cruise
Last half of Jan 06, ORD-BKK-ORD
Early Feb 06, ORD-LAS-ORD
Late Mar/early Apr 06, ORD-FRA-ZRH-ORD
FUTURE PLANS for the rest of 06
August 06, ORD-HNL-ORD
Sept 06, ORD-BKK-ORD
Oct 06, ORD-MHT-ORD
Late Nov 06, ORD-FRA-ZRH-ORD

There just might be one more ORD-FRA trip in maybe late June or early July this summer, as DH and I need to go to Germany to do some research and museum visits.

Carol

Unlike AAFF, I posted connections, so it's not that impressive, believe me. Plus I don't think trips up and down the west coast are particularly noteworthy. Flying Alaska Airlines these days, if I limited it to on-time flights, it would be a very short list indeed.

January: SJC (San Jose) - PHX (Phoenix) and back
January: SFO (San Francisco) - FRA (Frankfurt) - HAJ (Hanover) and back
April: SFO - DFW (Dallas/Ft. Worth) - CDG (Paris) and back
June: SF0 - YUL (Montreal) and back
July: SFO - DFW - CUN (Cancun) and back
December: SFO - LHR (London) - MUC (Munich) - SFO

Also, I have a trip already booked for April, 2007:
SFO - ORD (Chicago) - CVG (Cincinnati)- DEN (Denver) - SFO

And I'll definitely book a trip for November 2006 for OAK (Oakland) - BUR (Burbank)and back on Southwest as soon as they open reservations that far.

Ed

San Antonio; Paris; Orlando; London; Lisbon; Montego Bay; Montreal; Boston;
Las Vegas; Fort Lauderdale; Bangkok; Washington DC; Toronto; San Francisco. :)

So far for this year:

Jan: DFW-JFK, JFK-LGW, BRU-JFK-DFW (NYC, London, Belgium)
Mar: DFW-STL-DFW (St Louis)
May: DAL-AUS-DAL (Austin), DFW-MCI-DFW (Kansas City)
Jun: DFW-PHL-DFW (Philadelphia)
Jul: DFW-LGA-BGR-LGA-x-EWR-DFW (Bangor, MA)
Sep: DFW-EWR-x-BOS-DFW (NYC, Boston)

Hoping 2 more trips: HKG and Europe, towards end of the year

One way San Francisco - Chicago for September. No, I am not moving :) Taking Amtrak back (reserved too!)

Amtrak? That's great! I wish Amtrak would get their act together. I used to take the train from St. Louis to Kansas City for long weekends. Took it to Chicago when I was a teenager.