Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
My unduplicated route mileage is over 1.1 million miles if ignore direction and over 1.7 million miles if each direction is considered to be unique.
Hefty numbers either way! I figure 1.7M is the appropriate number, since you could fly a route and not its reverse.
Originally Posted by
jrl767
of ~2.5M total miles, less than 500k are unique (can't say I'm surprised, with only half a dozen long international trips: 1xJapan, 1xSouth America, 4xEurope)
Yes, I guess the way to boost both the raw figure and the ratio is to have lots of one-off longhaul flights. Which I think is a reasonable travel goal
It's also occurred to me that cities with two major airports that have overlapping destinations are a way to 'double count' a city pair: for instance, there's a whole bunch of Canadian destinations I visited on cheap operators out of Gatwick but would hope to revisit from Heathrow.