Best Flight - BRR-GLA and sightseeing Fingal's cave at 1000' - fantastic Loganair pilot, thanks!

Worst Flight - increasingly grumpy-looking BACON crew towards end of year

Best Airport / Lounge - Airport: Airport - BRR, unique, we love it; Lounge - Amnios (PP) at T4S MAD, big, spacious, comfy, food, empty at 6pm

Worst Airport / Lounge - Airport: MAD - massive ungainly lump, ghastly to navigate through

Best Hotel: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for treating us nice, made me almost like London again!

Worst Hotel: Best Western Linton Lodge Oxford for being a minus 3* hotel, a terrible mistake, should be nuked

Best Mileage Earning Opportunity of the Year: got to be Tesco

Biggest Travel-Related F***-Up of the Year: gov.uk's stupid cabin baggage policy ruining quick weekend breaks

Biggest Travel Disappointment of the Year: NZ switching equipment 744 -> 777 for trip next year, probably going to have to wait for Amex 241 to mature to fly at the front of a 747 for the FIRST time

Regret of the Year: buying 3xBP LHR-AKL before discovering FT and miles-earning credit cards, 13000 miles wasted

Your Gold Special Award (anything you like): FT and all of you

Thing You're Most Looking Forward To In 2007 Award: 4 week trip to NZ