My friend Tony became very ill and was confined to home. Frustrated out of his mind, because he was unable to work, Tony rested and surfed the internet to satisfy his passion for all things “Boeing”. In fact his slogan was “if its not Boeing I ain’t going“. It was Tony who got me to Seattle when Boeing first unveiled the 787. It was Tony who got me onto Flight memory.com Four years ago, Tony rang me up: “got your frequent flyer statements?” “yes”. I said. “Good. Bring them round to my place” “> “Why”. “>”Don’t…
My Musings (Sundays)
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My 747th flight approaches
On Sunday, I will fly my 747th flight in my life. After my 737th flight on a Boeing 737, I managed to to score this flight on a Qantas Boeing 747!Looking forward to Sunday in terms of the flight! Related Posts Tuesday Trip Report: 737 @ 737 How I got hooked on Flightmemory.com
United’s Oil Consumption will be expensive
According to Airways Magazine for June 2011, one out of every 350 barrels of oil produced in the world is used by the combined United-Continental airlines to fuel their 1262 planes! Every increase in oil has gotta hurt. Whats their long term plan for oil one wonders? If peak oil theory is correct then they face a very expensive future as oil becomes even pricier.
Hotels and Power Outlets
I just want to plug in my computer and charge it! Why is that so difficult? So many hotel rooms have no outlets. Others have a couple but the radio and lamps fill them. I have had to move furniture, work in the bathroom, squat on the bedroom floor all to get electricity! Anyone else have this issue?
Dear Nut – Please Go away
I sent this through to Qantas this week. (OK I know I am geek but let me geeky about something) Dear QantasThis is a very, very unusual request.I am a Qantas Platinum customer (QF 1657665). I am also a plane geek.This week I flew my 737th flight in my life. I flew my 737th flight on a Boeing 737. (see my blog post about it: http://mjtravlife.blogspot.com/2011/05/737-737-flight-report.html). The flight was in the USA with Southwest airlines.My flight memory where I record all my fights is here: http://my.flightmemory.com/mjc3000 Now to my request:I am booked to fly MEL-AKL-WLG-AKL-LAX in…
2300 hours
A recent flight tipped me over into 2300 hours of flying since I was born. This is equivalent to over 95 days inside a metal tube. Over 3 months of my life! More Trivia (some of which can be found at my flightmemory page) 75 airlines (my favourites of course Emirates, Air New Zealand and Qantas) 48 types of plane (the 3 most common being B737, B747 and B767 and the most exotic a Zepplin airship) 180 airports (the 3 most common Melbourne, Sydney and Los Angeles) 36 countries on 5 continents flown to (out of the…
I have just flown ONE MILLION MILES
Dawn in the air In the film: Up in the Air, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a guy with the goal of earning one million miles with the one airline. Today, I reached the milestone of one million miles in the air (1.6 million kilometres). My life does not completely rsemble Clooney’s movie character, however. Unlike him, I actually love being home and I like people. I now have elite statuses with the following carriers: United Airlines Gold Virgin Blue Gold Qantas Platinum I measure my air life at a great flight tracking tool called FlightMemory. My…
Annoyed at steep fare rise
I had to book air travel to a client’s city for a presentation I am making. I found an airfare five weeks ago of around $250 but was told not to book it because the client’s corporate travel department would book it at a corporate rate thus “saving money”. Fair enough”, I thought. Anyway, corporate travel department finally got back to me today to book it myself. Only the fare is now $700-$800. So much for them saving money. I hate seeing money wasted!
My Next Three Weeks
This is going to be a very busy time. Looking forward to flying with V Australia for the first time (the International arm of Virgin Blue, the Australian affiliate of the Virgin group) and spending a little time in Boise, Idaho.
Bad timing: Expedia’s Earthquake NZ sale
I subscribe to Expedia.com, Expedia.com.au and Expedia.co.nz (3 times in total). As a result, when they have a sale, I get three emails from them. On 23 February, three emails all came through at around 907am Australian time/1107am New Zealand time. They were all promoting a cheap holiday deal in New Zealand. The snafu was that this email came 17 hours after a massive earthquake ripped through Christchurch, New Zealand. This major tourist centre seems to have lost most of its hotels and the biggest hotel in the City, the 26 storey Grand Chancellor may collapse.…
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