Total Flights: 30
Total miles: 65725
Countries (new in bold): Qatar, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, China, USA
Airlines (new in bold): QR, QF, CX, AA, WN, UA
Airports (new in bold): JFK, LGA, EWR, MIA, GSO, CLT, LAX, SNA, DFW, DAL, DEN, ORD, SYD, CNS, AKL, HKG, DOH, BKK
Shortest flight: LAX - SNA (private)
Longest flight: DFW - SYD (in F)
Best flight experience: ORD-DOH on QR J - first time in Q suites and was blown away, more impressed than QF F and JL F.
Best Airport experience: QF F lounge in SYD was very impressive
Worst Airport Experience: BKK - showed up 9 hours before my 2am flight out to Doha, didn't realize they wouldn't issue my boarding passes even though the desk was open serving earlier flights.
Best lounge visited: SYD QF F blew me away. Was highly underwhelmed by QR J in DOH and my second visit to the CX J lounges in HKG
Most memorable trip: LGA-DFW AA Y - I had a 4 hour connection in DFW to connect to my QF F flight for my honeymoon. A massive storm rolled through both LGA and DFW, cancelling pretty much every LGA-DFW flight except my flight. We got diverted to AUS after cirlcing DFW, then sat on the tarmac there for two hours. When all hope was lost by the pilot for getting us in that night, we got the green light to go to Dallas. When we landed, someone's laptop fell out f the overhead bin and hit them on the head, drawing a lot of blood. They wouldn't let anyone off the plane until medical staff got there (30 minutes). After she was escorted off the plane, FAs insisted we all remain sitting for what seemed like an eternity so their nonrev friends sitting in the last row could take their sweet time and get off first. Thankfully still had time for a glass of champagne and a shower in the flagship lounge, but man that was a LONG flight.