Good evening from Birmingham Airport where I'm sitting in the public terminal area as I prepare to execute my end of year qualification run: As you look at this map, you'll notice there's a fair bit of convoluted routing... and that's just in New York and Newark. The mess that is Europe will provide some surprises (as a train will feature heavily in this trip … [Read more...]
End of Year Review 2013 – July to December
Welcome to the second part of my review of the year, where I look back the stories and blog notes of interest that have raised an eyebrow over the second 6 months of the year: July Top of the news was OZ214 crashing at San Francisco Airport, and an Ethiopian Airlines setting fire to itself. Meanwhile Germanwings relaunched counting Lufthansa's group attempt for a turn … [Read more...]
GhettoIFE’s review of 2013 – January to June
Welcome to my review of the year, where I look back the stories and blog notes of interest that have raised an eyebrow over the first 6 months of the year: January: Without doubt, the story that really heckled everyone was the grounding of the world-wide Boeing 787 fleet. This followed a inflight incident aboard an ANA 787 in flight, and a fire on the ground at … [Read more...]
2011 in Review: Stats and Numbers
So lets do the end of year stats for my person travel this year in the air. Map - www.gcmap.com Segments Flown: 33 Miles flown: 60,477 Longest Leg: London Heathrow T3 to -Vancouver International Airport, 4708 Miles Shortest Leg: Birmingham Airport UK - Dublin Airport, 200 Miles Airports visited: 20 New Airports: Vancouver International , George Bush … [Read more...]
2011 in Review – What you’ve missed…
Well, we're closing up on 2011, so it's time to do a mini-retrospective on this years travel. Firstly the trips... Gold Run 2: Blame Canada! It's only a mileage run anyway! With Aer Lingus, BMI, Air Canada and Continental - BHX-DUB, DUB-LHR-YVR, YVR-IAH-LHR (also on FlyerTalk) Re-Creating a Photo - To New York with United, British Airways and BMI Baby - BHX-AMS, … [Read more...]