500!
Oct 8, 2017, 6:48 am
#1
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Location: Heraklion, Greece
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500!
One hour ago I completed my 500th A3 flight when we landed at HER! I found out, when checking, that my first flight with them was in October 2000, 16 months after they started flying. Till then my domestic flights were all with Air Greece, a company that was then bought by A3 or the old Olympic Airways. 
Oct 8, 2017, 10:26 am
#5
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: LHR, ATH
Programs: A3*G
Posts: 114
One hour ago I completed my 500th A3 flight when we landed at HER! I found out, when checking, that my first flight with them was in October 2000, 16 months after they started flying. Till then my domestic flights were all with Air Greece, a company that was then bought by A3 or the old Olympic Airways.
If you don't mind, how did you know? Do you count them or did they let you know?
Oct 8, 2017, 11:09 am
#6
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Paris
Programs: Miles&Bonus *G
Posts: 318
One hour ago I completed my 500th A3 flight when we landed at HER! I found out, when checking, that my first flight with them was in October 2000, 16 months after they started flying. Till then my domestic flights were all with Air Greece, a company that was then bought by A3 or the old Olympic Airways.
I just counted mine since 2009 when I joined M&B: 64 flights (paid) + 6 redemptions, so 70 in total.
As a side note, I added up the miles I've spent so far, plus what's still in my account: I've gathered just over 300k (my guess is you are then at 5-10 times this number :P). Now I wish Aegean gave us an option to download our activity (incl. redemptions) in csv format for further analysis offline
Oct 8, 2017, 2:52 pm
#9
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Now, if only A3 had a million miller status or something like that, like the US legacies do, it would have meant something more, but I guess this stuff would never happen outside the US, since flying is mostly a monopoly for the national flag carriers...
Oct 8, 2017, 7:29 pm
#10
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A couple of answers:
a) Nobody noticed anything, certainly not the captain.
b) It was easy counting the flights: I checked the log provided by M+B since the beginning of my membership as well as my yearly travel planners for the years before that (I started the planners on simple Excel sheets in the mid 90s when I went into the "travelling" period of my life, just to be able to know where I was supposed to be, when and how).
Actually getting to 500 was easy, although I did not work in Crete but still having my home in Athens like many of my colleagues who were going back and forth once or twice per week. Even at the time when I was usually flying ST (after A3 started its European flights), any international trip included 2 A3 flights. This was more true after Transavia stopped its regularly scheduled flights AMS-HER or, to be precise, stopped giving KL miles, gradually leading me from ST to *A.
The nice thing yesterday was that both flights left exactly on time and arrived a few minutes early.
a) Nobody noticed anything, certainly not the captain.
b) It was easy counting the flights: I checked the log provided by M+B since the beginning of my membership as well as my yearly travel planners for the years before that (I started the planners on simple Excel sheets in the mid 90s when I went into the "travelling" period of my life, just to be able to know where I was supposed to be, when and how).
Actually getting to 500 was easy, although I did not work in Crete but still having my home in Athens like many of my colleagues who were going back and forth once or twice per week. Even at the time when I was usually flying ST (after A3 started its European flights), any international trip included 2 A3 flights. This was more true after Transavia stopped its regularly scheduled flights AMS-HER or, to be precise, stopped giving KL miles, gradually leading me from ST to *A.
The nice thing yesterday was that both flights left exactly on time and arrived a few minutes early.
Oct 9, 2017, 3:43 am
#11
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Even at the time when I was usually flying ST (after A3 started its European flights), any international trip included 2 A3 flights. This was more true after Transavia stopped its regularly scheduled flights AMS-HER or, to be precise, stopped giving KL miles, gradually leading me from ST to *A.
I'm kind of doing the same transition - moving away from ST and onto *A. Or, more specifically, moving away from KL and moving onto A3. The service and price difference is staggering. Only downside is that Aegean has no evening flight to AMS - which makes things a little tricky arriving at ATH on time.
Oct 9, 2017, 6:03 am
#12
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That's funny - by now Transavia does give FB/KL miles again, and, Aegean has started an AMS-HER direct flight!
I'm kind of doing the same transition - moving away from ST and onto *A. Or, more specifically, moving away from KL and moving onto A3. The service and price difference is staggering. Only downside is that Aegean has no evening flight to AMS - which makes things a little tricky arriving at ATH on time.
I'm kind of doing the same transition - moving away from ST and onto *A. Or, more specifically, moving away from KL and moving onto A3. The service and price difference is staggering. Only downside is that Aegean has no evening flight to AMS - which makes things a little tricky arriving at ATH on time.
