Short hair Francis

Introduction

It’s been awhile since I’ve written a trip report. In fact, it’s been close to a year now and crazily, I’ve even done additional RTW trips in 3 Class First without writing about them. As I finish my last year of university, sadly the times have changed and the free time I previously had before in writing TR have been devoted to the undergrad thesis. That being said, I wanted to finish University with a bang and that’s what I intend to do.

To write this trip report is actually quite difficult in fact, I previously haven’t planned to write a TR and everything I write is based on the memory I had and my photo collection spans over 20 albums for starters. Because many of these trips unfortunately are all lumped together makes it all much more difficult to write it. However, without combining all of the sections together, it simply doesn’t display how crazy I’ went, why I did it in such a way, the motivation behind everything, how things progressively got the way they were and why I went with such a title theme for this trip report!

And to make it easier to track how trips were planned and done, I suggest dividing this almanac of a trip report into 10 sections, which I separated below


Route Map



Flights <Combined Dec 2011, Jan and Feb 2012 Flights - 59 Flights, 87654 Miles>
All Flights Flown

December 2011 Flights (7 Flights, 11747 Miles)
Air Canada 412 – Toronto to Montreal Trudeau (Business Class)
Swiss International Airlines 87 – Montreal Trudeau to Zurich (First Class)
Swiss International Airlines 634 – Zurich to Paris Charles De Gaulle (Business Class)
Lufthansa 1035 – Paris Charles De Gaulle to Frankfurt (Business Class)
Asiana Airlines 542 – Frankfurt to Seoul Incheon (First Class)
Air China International 124 – Seoul Incheon to Beijing Capital (Business Class)
Air China International 117 – Beijing Capital to Hong Kong (Business Class)

January 2012 Flights (37 Flights, 52366 Miles)
Cathay Pacific Airways 564 – Hong Kong to Taipei Taoyuan (Business Class)
Cathay Pacific Airways 450 – Taipei Taoyuan to Tokyo Narita (Business Class)
Cathay Pacific Airways 451 – Tokyo Narita to Taipei Taoyuan (Business Class)
Cathay Pacific Airways 451 – Taipei Taoyuan to Hong Kong (Business Class)
Cathay Pacific Airways 880 – Hong Kong to Los Angeles (Business Class)
American Airlines 1974 – Los Angeles to Nashville (First Class)
American Airlines 1307 – Nashville to Los Angeles (First Class)
American Airlines 2404 – Los Angeles to Dallas Ft. Worth (First Class)
American Airlines 1026 – Dallas Ft. Worth to Kansas City (First Class)
American Airlines 1326 – Kansas City to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 889 – Chicago O’Hare to Los Angeles (First Class)
American Airlines 2404 – Los Angeles to Dallas Ft. Worth (First Class)
American Airlines 1020 – Dallas Ft. Worth to Omaha (First Class)
American Airlines 1875 – Omaha to Dallas Ft. Worth (First Class)
American Airlines 2320 – Dallas Ft. Worth to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 4213 – Chicago O’Hare to Buffalo (Economy Class)
American Airlines 4346 – Rochester, NY to Chicago O’Hare (Economy Class)
American Airlines 1561 – Chicago O’Hare to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 1522 – San Francisco to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 1341 – Chicago O’Hare to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 556 – San Francisco to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 1561 – Chicago O’Hare to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 554 – San Francisco to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 3960 – Chicago O’Hare to Rochester, NY (Economy Class)
American Airlines 1601 – Toronto to Dallas Ft. Worth (Business Class)
American Airlines 70 – Dallas Ft. Worth to Frankfurt (Business Class)
Malev Hungarian Airlines 521 – Frankfurt to Budapest (Economy Class)
Lufthansa 1341 – Budapest to Frankfurt (Business Class)
Singapore Airlines 26 – Frankfurt to New York Kennedy (Business Class)
Air Canada 721 – New York Kennedy to Toronto (Business Class)
American Airlines 4247 – Buffalo to Chicago O’Hare (Economy Class)
American Airlines 1561 – Chicago O’Hare to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 2042 – San Francisco to Dallas Ft. Worth (First Class)
American Airlines 1109 – Dallas Ft. Worth to Austin (First Class)
American Airlines 1803 – Austin to Dallas Ft. Worth (First Class)
American Airlines 1415 – Dallas Ft. Worth to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 1522 – San Francisco to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)

February 2012 Flights (15 Flights, 23541 Miles)
American Airlines 4213 – Chicago O’Hare to Buffalo (Economy Class)
American Airlines 4034 – Toronto to Chicago O’Hare (Economy Class)
American Airlines 1521 – Chicago O’Hare to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 1522 – San Francisco to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 2099 – Chicago O’Hare to Los Angeles (First Class)
American Airlines 2004 – Los Angeles to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 1561 – Chicago O’Hare to San Francisco (First Class)
American Airlines 1522 – San Francisco to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 2099 – Chicago O’Hare to Los Angeles (First Class)
American Airlines 1372 – Los Angeles to Chicago O’Hare (First Class)
American Airlines 3874 – Chicago O’Hare to Toronto (Economy Class)
American Airlines 3862 – Toronto to New York Kennedy (Economy Class)
American Airlines 64 – New York Kennedy to Zurich (Economy Class)
British Airways 713 – Zurich to London Heathrow (Business Class)
British Airways 99 – London Heathrow to Toronto (First Class)



Trip Parts
Section 1, encompassing Part 1 - 5
The last Aeroplan mini-RTW ticket, Dec 8 – 13 (YYZ-YUL-ZRH-CDG-FRA-ICN-PEK-HKG)
Part 1 - Zooming across the Atlantic, Swiss Airbus 330 First Class (YYZ-YUL-ZRH-CDG)
Part 2 - High speeding through Western Europe, visiting Cologne and Brussels
Part 3 – Always exceeding expectations, Paris, France
Part 4 – Flying Solo, or as close as you can get, Asiana First Class FRA-ICN
Part 5 – Ugh, Seoul Traffic, Air China Business Class ICN-PEK-HKG

Section 2, encompassing Part 6 - 7
The January family vacation, Jan 1 – 4 (HKG-TPE-NRT-TPE-HKG)
Part 6 – A fresh start to 2012, Taipei, Taiwan
Part 7 – Hi Tokyo, I’m not connecting today

Section 3, encompassing Part 8 - 12
The first set of Mileage Runs, Jan 4 - 8 (HKG-LAX-BNA-LAX-DFW-MCI-ORD-LAX-DFW-OMA-DFW-ORD-BUF)
Part 8 – Rectifying a bad mistake Cathay Pacific “Cirrus’ Business Class, HKG-LAX
Part 9 – Where’s the BBQ? Kansas City, Missouri
Part 10 – Who said you need alcohol to black out? AA 889 ORD-LAX
Part 11 – Off to see my Private Line Agent, Omaha, Nebraska
Part 12 – Should I be grateful for this bed?

Section 4, encompassing Part 13 - 14
The second set of Mileage Runs, Jan 9 – 11 (ROC-ORD-SFO-ORD-SFO-ORD-SFO-ORD-ROC)
Part 13 – Who burns a Systemwide Upgrade on a mid-con flight, I do!
Part 14 – Luck, laughter, annoyance…

Section 5, encompassing Part 15 – 17
Chasing the Whalejet, Jan 19 – 22 (YYZ-DFW-FRA-BUD-FRA-JFK/LGA-YYZ)
Part 15 – You’re going to Dallas for a leisure purpose???
Part 16 – What else can go wrong?
Part 17 – As good as advertised, Singapore Airbus 380 Business Class FRA-JFK

Section 6, encompassing Part 18 - 19
The third set of Mileage Runs, Jan 30 – Feb 1 (BUF-ORD-SFO-DFW-AUS-DFW-SFO-ORD-BUF)
Part 18 – Sales, Black Outs, and the Pot Kettle Black?
Part 19 – Austin, Texas, the tiny blue in the giant red

Section 7, encompassing Part 20 – 23
The 1 Million Miler Weekend, Feb 2 – Feb 5 (YYZ-ORD-SFO-ORD-LAX-ORD-SFO-ORD-LAX-ORD-YYZ)
Part 20 – I still feel like a peon, last flight before 1 million miler
Part 21 – AA loves you but we’re still going to make you sweat, the 1 million miler flight
Part 22 – Are you insane, you are CFCing to a flight that is delayed?
Part 23 – We are cutting capacity right? Or are we just going bankrupted?

Section 8, encompassing Part 24 – 26
As spontaneous as it gets, Feb 9 – 12 (YYZ-JFK-ZRH-LHR-YYZ)
Part 24 – As spontaneous as it gets, AA Economy YYZ-JFK-ZRH
Part 25 – Such a little country, Liechtenstein
Part 26 – Some love for Valentine’s Day weekend, BA new First LHR-YYZ


Disclaimer – This report is long and its not completely written so it will be taking awhile to finish
And for anyone knowing me on FT, my trip reports take ages….. to finish
You have been forewarned
There is a lot of travel to cover and loads of fantastic photos to share with the whole Flyertalk community.


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