Name: Mike
Profession: US Military
Birth Date: 25 Dec
Location: Germany
Favorite Air Carrier: BA, American
Comments: Been around here for over a year and just found this sticky. Thanks to all who make this such a great place to learn the ropes on maximizing my travel experience!

Until 2 years ago I flew about 15K miles a year. Found FT when I realized I would be flying a bunch in 2009. Wound up flying 135K miles, much more than I thought I would. The things I learned here has made it a pleasurable experience!

Hi,
 

Hi,
I am Saloni Chandra from delhi. I am a traveller like to visit new and different places and to write review about them. So i want to share my openion here but i am new for this forum.
If any requirement regarding traveling i m here to help!!

Saloni Chandra

welcome to ft saloni....

I will move this to Community, where people meet and greet each other.

Welcome to FlyerTalk. I hope that you find both lots to learn and to share about travel.

SanDiego1K
Starwood Mod

Hi Flyer Talk Forums
 

I'm Patrick and I'm an American expat working and living in Cairo, Egypt. My family and I have lived overseas for the past 6 years. We travel to the United States almost every summer to visit family during our summer vacation (2 months) and we travel extensively through the Middle East, SW Asia, and Europe often. We have flown Etihad, American, British Airways, Delta, Lufthansa, Air France and some other low-cost US domestic carriers.
We're about to try KLM this summer for the first time, and would love your input on inflight services and AMS transfers. We have a 2 year old, so traveling with a toddler can be challenging. Your advise on that topic is also welcome!

Welcome Patrick. Check out the KLM forum here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/klm-flying-dutchman-493/

Transiting AMS to Shengen flights at certain times of the day can have very long lines. However if you are going from the Egypt to America and not entering European Shengen countries, you should be OK. Hopefully you will be in business class and have the extra space for your young one.

MunMun
 

Hi all I'm Mona final year student and I'm doing my final year project of frequent flyers. I have made quick survey questionnair and i want to post it soon would you all be very kind and take part of please.


many thanks I couldnt find better place than here.


have great evening;)

I'm an AT born half TR enjoying FT for college work and part time profession in the aviation industry - My interests include long-haul travel, photogaphy, media

Browsing thru the forums interlinks both college and work related stuff - and actually makes me wanna become a FF & "just another" mileage runner some day...



^

Hello everyone,

I am Joe from Dallas. I live not too far away from Love Field and have lived around the area my whole life. I am an aviation enthusiast, pilot and avid traveler (though this college thing and minimum wage job are inhibiting the latter). I love looking up into the sky and seeing an airplane, but I still get a great kick out of seeing an AA silver bullet racing across the sky. I have always enjoyed flying on AA and enjoy their product.
As you can see by my name, I am a huge MD-80 fan and always enjoy the opportunity to fly on them. Flying on an MD-80 takes me back to my childhood, let alone the symphony of sound that the twin JT8D's make, so I am usually the idiot around seats 23A-27A with a huge smile on my face!

I have heard about FT for a long time, so I guess that places me more over on the lurker side of things.
That's about all!

Who is noneemac?
 

Name: Aaron
Profession: Marketing Communications Editor
Birthday: September 24
Home City: Los Angeles, CA
Birth City: Syracuse, NY

In February 2009, I learned that my grandfather was days away from dying and could I come up to see him one more time in upstate Michigan. Finding no affordable fares to TVC (and with bereavement fares on UA and AA in the $700 range), I decided to burn 50K miles for a RT coach ticket LAX-ORD, from which I had to rent a car and drive nine hours.

At the time, I had 81K miles in my 15-year-old AAdvantage account. To see years of occasional flying on AA just drain away like *that* for a crappy RT ticket that should have cost $200 just made me feel ... like I'd had my passport and cash stolen from my hotel room in Bangalore. Just burned me up inside.

That's when I decided to scour the Web for ways to earn miles at a quicker clip. And that's how I found FT.

And once I found a thread discussing someone's three-day 10-segment long-haul MR, I was hooked. THIS, I said, is for ME!

A month later, AA ran the first of its two 2xEQM promotions, and in August I attended Viajero Joven's PHX MR seminar, where I met 60-odd other odd souls who claimed to be as passionate (er, hooked) as I thought I was. And so I just ramped up from there, committing myself not only to being Exec Platinum for as long as I could swing it, but also to becoming a more well-rounded and -seasoned traveler.

I'm looking forward to meeting more of you at the Chicago DO in October.

Cheers,
Aaron

EDIT: I think the OP wanted us to mention hobbies, so ... I travel to find great and interesting food and wine. Architecture would next, followed by museums and "walkability." I love walkable cities. I find it alternately amusing and frustrating that concierges, travel guides, and people on the street tell you that something more than 10 minutes away is too far to walk.

Weekly Commuting btw Miami and NY
 

Hi there,
I am going to be commuting every weekend for the next six months from Miami to New York (coming back to Miami on Mondays). Any suggestions, deals?

Name: Robert
DOB: 15 dec
Profession: Art Director/Eternal Student
Birthplace: Boston, MA, USA
Hometown: San Juan, PR
Where I live: Aguadilla, PR (western Puerto Rico, about 100km west of San Juan)
Favorite Carrier: B6/Jetblue & CX/Cathay Pacific
Favorite Place to travel to: Disneyland California :D
Hobbies: Photography, scuba diving, painting

I am a student looking for a job that lets me travel

Update 2016

It's now been more than 5 years since I posted this. Don't know if updates are a thing in this thread but if anyone is interested here is what happened since.

When I joined in 2009 I spent months lurking the forums and learning everything I could from the flyertalk veterans. As I was a student at the time I had limited funds, but thanks to flyertalk I was able to gain enough points to take my girlfriend to a few trips and stay at some hotels that we never could have dreamed of affording to go to at the time. After that I visited flyertalk every few months, I seldom post but would try to keep up to date with my favorite airline and hotel programs and also research trip advice before summer vacations.

As I wrote in my original post I wanted a job that would let me travel. It's funny, because travelling helped me find the job I have today. During one of my trips I tasted noodles made from beans and they were delicious and turned out to be healthy in all the right ways (gluten free, organic). I brought this back home and friends and family loved it so I packaged it, and luckily enough it became popular. The brand is called Gafell if anyone is interested.

These days I do get to travel quite a bit and absolutely love it. I have not contributed much to this site, I don't know nearly enough about any of the programs to be of much use, but want to say thanks to all the great posters in this community.

The name is Matt. Long time reader, first time poster. I just moved to Savannah, GA for a job, no traveling for the job, but the girlfriend in Oklahoma makes the travel necessary. Im one trip away from Delta Silver Medallion, all that in less than two months, just for a long distance relationship. Any reason to travel is a good reason!

Name: Tom
County: Fiji
DOB: March 30
Interest: Traveling, Photography, Sports, Adventure and anything that makes my heart beat faster and face to sweat :p

Cheerio :-:

Hi,

I'm Bob from Asheville, NC.

Found FT less than two months ago, but I've already found it very helpful and useful. I appreciate that so many people are sharing their knowledge and experiences and helpful hints with each other.

I don't fly too often, but I appreciate that my next trips will likely be free because of FF miles I'm now accumulating. And already I've been able to offer help to two friends who have ill family members far away and may need to fly in an emergency.

Hey everyone,

Tony from Florida. I'm a passionate traveler currently studying aerospace engineering. This summer I'll be interning at a wonderful airline in NY (B6). This site has been an amazing source for everything travel related and I'm glad I joined the wonderful family here at Flyertalk.

Hey guys, welcome all! If you have any questions, just shout

Jenbel
Co-moderator, Communitybuzz!

im a biomedical engineer working as a service engineer for medical equipments and i look to buy a smal car that i already have x3 ffor long trip but i need a small car for towwn that there is too much cars and no place for big car

Longtime lurker, finally signed up!
 

Hi All,

I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a very very long time lurker and finally decided to create an account and help fellow travelers in anyway I can.

I am a former UA and BD corp. employee, so feel free to answer and questions you might have on any UA/BD or Star questions.

I have noticed a lot of people looking for good deals on Intl C travel as of late. I have a company that I use (as I don't get to travel free anymore) feel free to PM me and I can get you the details.

Sir P.

Name: Haja
Profession: Owner of a tour operator in Madagascar ASISTEN Travel ; Engineer
Age: 29
Home City: between Antananarivo & Montreal
Birth City: Antananarivo (Madagascar)
Hobbies: Photography, tennis, technology and basketball
Favourite air carrier: Singapore Airline
FF programs: Aeroplan (Elite), Mileage Plus ( used to be 1K, been Gold several times), AAdvatange (used to be Gold), Flying Blue (used to be silver)

I moved from United Mileage Plus to Aeroplan since it is easier to reach Gold status ( 35k ) :p

hello!
 

Hi everyone, my name is Ben and I just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a big fan of the SPG hotels, and I'm looking forward to talking with all of you! :)

I've been reading the forum for a few years now, registered a few months ago and finally posted today (discount code for hotels). Tips from the forum made me save money on tickets and hotels and get extra miles (so achieved Frequent Traveller status on Miles&More). Thanks to everyone.^^

Best wishes from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

:D

Just Retired
 

I’ve been lurking in the FT background for quite a while now soaking up as much as I could about MRs. My home airport is IAD and my job has taken me from IAD to LAX/SFO enough times to reach P1 status each year. I have 500K butt-in-seat miles and 300K bonus miles. Now that I’m retired, I would like to maintain or improve my P1 status using MRs, but the opportunities from IAD on UA seem to be very limited. Mrs TJ and I like to take short trips to LAS and routing them via SFO-LAX-LAS gets the mileage up, but I can’t get the cpm below .05. I monitor Farecompare, Kayak, Travelocity, etc, and play around with various segments on ITA, but I’m never able to route anything down to the .035 cmp that you guys seem to get.

Looking forward to breaking the code. :confused:

Hello
 

I just thought I'd say hi. This is my first post, I was at the doctor the other day and picked up a travel magazine and there some of you all where (pictured). Talked about this website and got me interested. I recently started traveling and now I'm hooked. I'm 28 now other than family vacation never went anywhere by myself that I would classify as a real vacation. Last September I went on a Carnival Cruise with my girlfriends then in March went on a Royal Carribean cruise with my brother. Both in the Caribbean stopped in Roatan, Cozumel, Costa Maya, Grand Caymans, and Belize City. I had my taste of cruising which is fun. I just want to see the world now anyway possible, mostly tropical places though. :D Eastern Oregon (couple hrs from Boise) isn't cutting it during the winter months. I will be searching on here for some credit cards that I can earn points with, never had one that earned me points.... so I might have some dumb questions. :)

Welcome to FlyerTalk! It's a great community with loads of travel information for all comers. Be sure to browse the various forums & take the time to read the "Stickies" at the top of each as they are the place for "newbies" to start.

Welcome to FT, and we hope you learn a lot. I'm going to merge this thread in with our master 'welcome to FT!' thread.

Jenbel
Co-moderator, Communitybuzz!

Name: Bart
Profession: IT Consultant
DOB: Nov '85 (which makes me one of the youngest I guess)
Home City: Antwerp, Belgium
Hobbies: Travel, Ski, Music, Art, Media
Traveled to: Almost every main city and country in the European Union. The west of Canada. The West, Mid-west & South East USA.
Most visited city: London (100+ round trips)
On FT for : Meeting fellow travelers, looking for places to discover, finding good value travel tips, wasting time in lounges :)
Freq Travel Hotel Programs : Hilton Diamond, Melia Platinum, Goldpoints Elite
Freq Travel Transport Programs: Eurostar Carte Blanche, Flying Blue (Nothing/didn't got my status transfered from VLM), American AAdvantage (applying for PLT), BA excecutive club: Blue (newbie :D)

Name: Andrey

Hometown: St.Petersburg, Russia
Favorite Carrier: Dalavia, Korean Air, Aeroflot :(

My name is Sanj and I am from West Yorkshire (UK) I fly on business a fair bit usually via the Middle East to the Indian Sub-Continent^

Greetings from London
 

Hello everyone at Flytalk,

I stumbled across this website via google and I found it to be really informative. I don't travel as much as I would like to (if you can imagine living and working in the UK) my job and passion allows me access to several travel-related networks.

I would really like to help as much as I can to friends from other parts of the world, whether you are visiting or passing through the UK.

Feel free to drop me any queries you might have and I will do my best to help get the information however possible.

Safe travels and cheers to all...

:)

Hello from STL
 

Hello FT Community!

I have been a frequent business traveler for many years, but I'm new to the world of travel benefits (my old company kept employees' miles and points). I've been lurking in the background on FT for quite some time and thought it was time to join and contribute to the community. It has been a great experience so far-- learning lots of new things and re-learning lots of things I thought I once knew!

A little about myself -- my name is Justin and I work with many breweries around the world for a food ingredient company based in Holland. I am based in STL and travel a lot domestically, with 3-4 trips per year to both South America and Europe.

Since AA abandoned STL, I status-matched on UA last year and have been very happy with *A benefits. I'm looking forward to making 1K by year end.

Cheers,
Justin

Welcome to Flyertalk Beer Me!. I must say I'm quite jealous of your profession AND your handle!

Hello from TO
 

Hello Everyone,

My name in Mark and I'm and engineer from Toronto.
I've been following FT for some time thanks to a friend who introduced me and I thought it was about time to join, meet some fellow FT's and be a part of this community.

I started with my company a little over a year ago and I have found myself traveling to almost every continent since. I'm new to the world of business travel so i'm hoping to learn all I can.

Cheers

Welcome to FT. I hope you will be posting. Also welcome to all of our new members.

Hi everyone, I'm new. I'm Amanda, and as my name implies, I'm on the road a lot. I sell electronics for semi trucks. I've got silver elite with marriott, and my goal for this year is to get gold. :)

Hello forum! Another new person here. I'm Ken living in beautiful South Jersey near Philadelphia. In the past I've spent time with backpacking and camping and now getting older am starting to want to travel and see other places. So, I've joined up here ....

Hi All,
I'm chinese,My name is Tasha, which given by my foreign teacher Pam ,who from Canada in my college ,and I love her,we are in touch all the time,although,she return to her Country,
I'm an optimistic girl,I like traveling, I always go to Scenic with my family by my own car,of course, So much thing impressed me during the travel days.
And now I worked as the global car electronic Products online saler，and I love my job,I can find what I want from my job.and I will try my best to do my job,That's all ;)
thanks!

Time to update my listing in this thread! It's been a long time since I posted here.

Handle: Geogirl (though I wouldn't mind changing it)
Location: Indianapolis
DOB: 6/17, during Watergate.

Occupation: Business and Marketing Consultant; CEO

Hobbies: Traveling. Reading. Crafts. Writing. Languages. Collecting geodes, rocks, and mineral specimens from interesting places. My list is long, but my time is short.

Travel: I've been to Paris, Murcia, Montevideo, Edinburgh, London, Newcastle, Cancun, Grand Cayman, Niagara Falls, and all but 9 of the United States.

Favorite place: Paris, currently, but Spain ranked right up there.

Last U.S. Domestic Travel: Chicago.

Next International Travel: Not sure yet.

Languages: English (primary), passable French, skoshi Japanese, a tiny bit of Italian and Swedish, and currently learning Spanish.

What about FlyerTalk? A place I shouldn't have taken a hiatus from. :)

GG

Hello all, I am reasonably new to FT and the world of FF miles/programs and the like, thought I should introduce myself.

My name is Steven, a second year law student (hence the handle). I only get the chance to travel a couple of times a year, due to budget/time constraints and so trying to maximise loyalty points collection. After all, “Points make prizes”.