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I'm retired, live in the Philippines & am planing to get elite on Delta by doing runs from Manila & Cebu City. I hope this is possible. Hi to All.

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Name = Ghayoor Abbas
Occupation = Property Agent
I am property agent and provide my humble services to potential clients.

18 year old Arab living in London
message to find out more

36 year old..
Have a 2 and 6 year old.

Appreciate FT for the wealth of information to help us vacation travel.

Hi there
 

I am 39 years old and I am a trained croupier.

Welcome^, I'm sure you can't name your employer, what city do you work in?

If Vegas, there is a whole forum dedicated to Las Vegas, I’m sure your comments would be welcomed: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/las-vegas-463/
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Hi,

Time to introduce myself :

39 years old and now 100% doing my dreamjob ;-)

If someone wants to have some soccer ( USA called) or football-game tips in their travel I can always give you some advice.

For me this forum is something I discovered thanks to the guy behind the blog travel.bart.la . I was 20 years ago a rep in the Tourisme business. Now I am owner of a soccer journalist-mediaum with 6 employees. In order to reduce the cost of my 4 employees in the European Cup I started to read everything here, and it helps a lot!

Thank you

welcome & big congrats on having your dreamjob, my wife has hers, I'm not there, yet!

Greetings all….
Between the economic downturn and early retirement, I’m not travelling as much and my contacts circle is narrowing.

I’m enjoying the conversations, opinions and ever-helpful insights offered by the FT members and look forward to contributing (and getting back in the air) soon.

As travels go, I favor Western Europe and the less travelled road….by way of stats: single f, emptynester, living outside of Silicon Valley.
/D.

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reading and or discussing Am history.
trying to be a taxidermist
Working with Roger Tory Peterson and others on osprey.
Collecting historical maps, etchings book and in some comparing those thing portrayed in them to the present.
Some movies.
Drawing pen and inks
photography and developing B&Ws
My neighbor, aged 10 or so, who was allowed to drive the tractor. Oh, I used to go next door and just stare at him driving it.
Thinking, aged about ten, how to catch a muskrat bare handed. The planning took a week, getting bitten, oh about 40 seconds.
Listening in on part lines (telephone) me bad
watching serious craftsmen at work( shoeing horses and making the shoes)
being left alone at Mystic Seaport a lot and able to talk to those who often sailed some of the boats there as crew
Having lunch aboard the HMS Victory.
Long list as I spent a lot of my time alone.

Villavic
 

Let me introduce myself. I live in Lima, Peru. A natural born traveler, I have traveled since I was 7, around 25 countries, 70 cities. And within Peru.. countless. Travels are my passion. By plane, by trane, or on my own, off road, etc.

I found this website in 2010 while looking for info about China, my tavel project at that time. Then I started to add posts in other forums (NYC, South America, Argentina, etc.). I love to help people who are planning trips to Peru, any kind of trips.

I'm 45 and have worked in Information Technology since 1989. My nickname is consequence of the old 8 characters limit on filenames (remember DOS? well the same limit was on mainframes). So I used to reduce my lastname that is very long, to Villavic. And everybody at work started to called me so.

Villavic

while that figure has been posted many times, some in fact view miles as 1 cent sometimes even less.

However I think most FTers would say they've used miles at a much better avg, I know I have.

& Welcome !

Have you tried a good travel agent? An agent who specializes in business/first class travel has huge contacts and deals. Might have upgrade coupons, a Y to J/J to F upgrade contract, know of carriers that are offering deals, or make a suggestion that instead of using that 'big name' carrier to connect to your destination, you use a 'small' carrier for half the price, still earning miles, and get better treatment.

Another idea, look for using your miles to upgrade from a low price [not lowest] fare. Many more opportunities for travel.

First time seeing this thread from the Talkmail newsletter. I'm a project manager living in Europe with employees and customers scattered across Europe and the Middle East. I travel frequently between Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Honestly I'm not sure why I signed up for FT in the first place or even chose this username in 1995 - I probably saw it on TV while signing up! I didn't start posting until several years later, when - of course - I had a bad flight experience and needed to vent!

jolieand...have you tried consolidators?

Hello to All
 

My name is Herman. I am 70 and live on the Lummi peninsula near the Straits of Georgia in Washington state, not far from the Canadian border.

Retired now, having worked in data processing beforehand - programmer, analyst, lead systems analyst, etc.

Lived in Los Angeles for 29 years and adored the excitement of LAX and watching the airplanes and listening to approach, departure, and the tower.
Also lived in Bogota, Colombia, for several years.

Am owned by an imperious basset hound intergalactic princess named Priscilla.

My real, honest-to-goodness wish for SO LONG was to be a flight attendant. Most of the time I was too tall, just to start with. But, I got an interview with Continental in 1972, and 2 interviews with PanAm in 1988, 2 months before Lockerbie. Neither one accepted me. I truly would have made a great employee, understanding the concept of customer service. But, it did not happen.

Glad to be here. Maybe my user ID should have been Flight Attendant Wannabe instead of Hermanding. Incidentally, that ID is my name and my nickname put together. :)

Hello everyone, we live in NZ and it's been some time since we travelled on a long haul flight. Yes cycling is my love hence the name. Recently retired having worked for a medical company for a number of years. Happily married and have 3 sons.

Planning a trip this year to London and can't decide whether to go with Air NZ our national carrier where we both have airpoints or to fly with Singapore Airlines. Are airpoints & krisflyer points the same?

Hello everyone
 

While I've known about this forum for quite some time, I've only recently become a regular visitor. My previous job/career had me traveling 2-3 times per year for professional reasons, on top of which I'd add 1-2 international trips of a personal nature. Now, however, I've switched jobs/careers, and have racked up almost 30,000 miles in 4 months, all domestic. Thus, I have a greater need to learn from those that are much more expert than I.

I live just north of San Francisco, with my wife and two young children. I have the good fortune of being able to sneak away every so often for solo trips somewhere random in the world, and I thank my wife for her generosity in letting me leave the kids with her. With all the miles I'm accruing now (air, hotel, and car), I suspect that I'll be able to ramp up the in-kind trips for her (we're going to Bali in June) with very little impact to our bottom line.

I look forward to learning more from everyone here.

-enki

Quick intro here:

55yo semi-retired Canada Post technician currently living in the Bay Area, NoCal.

Make regular trips back to Ontario, Canada to visit my two boys and my two granddaughters.

I just came across the forum while searching for an answer to a question I have re: Air Canada, so I'll head on over to the appropriate forum and post my poser.

;)

make time for flyer talk amidst the endless travel
 

hello,
i am a 37 year AA veteran, 5.6 mil miles, execplat, tri-continent traveler (NA-AS-EU)
just read an article in the NY Times about freq flyers having a seat at the merger takeover table,
struck me that i have been loyal forever to one company and am totally clueless about my future there or if my 37 years of loyalty will mean a thing when all the dust is settled.
made me worried, or is that sad, or is that frustrated or just plain angry.
talk to me and tell me i am not alone in feeling so frustrated

execplat 5.5

Originally from Illinois.. lived in Texas awhile. Now just traveling and landing wherever the wind takes me =)

I travel domestically for work - I'm a web designer/programmer/consultant
I also travel domestically and internationally for fun! Been going around the US in my car for awhile now.

I stay in hotels, hostels, couchsurf, airbnb... anything from Motel 6 in the middle of nowhere to on a dorm room floor to the Marriott Marquis in Midtown NYC.

cyesq
 

Hi am cy, a lawyer (esq) with a large intl engineering consulting firm, living in Abu Dhabi for the last 4 years. Before coming here, I was in the NY/Conn area for the about 20 years but originally from Phx. Have mostly just enjoyed the FT newsletters but decided to become more active. Was on another travel forum for the last couple of years but after being insulted one too many times, I packed my bags and quietly left. This forum seems decidedly more civil and I thank you all for that.

Obviously my travel is intl but I try to get back to the states once or twice a year to see family. Other personal travel is to Europe and I generally use AF, KLM, Delta, Etihad, Luft and BA.

Earlier in the week I got some excellent advice about my connecting flight at LHR from AlanR and Aviatrix and I can't thank them enough. Looking forward to being an active poster.

Newbie: Be Gentle!
 

I'm 39 but still feel 27, working at a job I love in DC and finally able to travel more often, which is exactly what I plan to do!

It used to be I rarely traveled and so rarely had a reason to think about points. Now, of course, I'm eager to maximize points I do have and try to figure out a coherent strategy. I'm looking up the Points Guy and The Gate and trying to figure out what to do on the forums here, and... I'm stumped. I'm picking up smatterings here and there but I don't feel like I know how to find what I need to know, or how to find OUT what I need to know, in any sort of systematized way.

So obviously, I'm close to both Dulles and National (never call it "Reagan" or they'll spot you for a tourist!), and I take Amtrak occasionally to NYC or Boston. I take one or two cruises a year, and one or two long non-cruise vacations, as well as a smattering of long weekends visiting friends elsewhere. I don't have any business travel.

I have both an Amex Platinum (yay benefits!) and an Amex Preferred Gold (yay points!), and just found out through this forum about Rewards Network which I'll sign up for as soon as I can figure out what would be the best miles program to link it to. I also have a CUrewards card that doesn't seem to get much talk on here, but I have no problems ditching it for something else.

Is it weird that I'm looking forward to my first mileage run?

not at all !!:)

Nope. (They get old after a while. When I was 18 and got my first license in HKG I was excited to drive, until I came to Canada and realized I had to learn how to do the same things on the other side of the road. And MRs get very old especially if you do several in a month.)

Hi Everyone!

Just a little bit about myself ...

I have been reading Flyertalk for about six months now. Can't tell you how much I've gained from these forums.
I work for an airline. I love to travel, currently travel about twice a month. The only thing I love more than travel, is finding a great deal!!

Welcome, make sure you check out the mileage run deal forum:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals-372/

[My Blog] The Flying Viking
 

Hello FlyerTalk friends,

My name is Victor Pedersén, 19 years old from Stockholm (the capital of Sweden) and I joined FlyerTalk a few minutes ago. I look forward to be a part of this forum.


Kind Regards
Victor

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Greetings from Slovenia/Europe.

I am reading the forum for few months now and I finally decided to register.
I deal with Finances and my usual flights are:
LJU-(VIE/FRA/PRG)-LCA -> depends on price :)
LJU-CDG-PDX-LAX-CDG-LAX

Hi Victor, and welcome to FlyerTalk. We're pleased to have you here. I'll move your post along to the community forum where we greet new members. The Travel Tool forum is for the tools we use to track our travels.

Best,
Carol
Community Director

Ladies & Gentlemen.

Thanks for your input, it was very entertaining to look through 165 pages, sometimes couldn't stop laughing.

You can call me Max, 26, European, my main routes are all EK302J/EK303J/EK304J/EK305J/EK306J/EK307J and everything after Dubai stop-over depends very much on where it takes me to.

Keep posting ladies & gents,
Max

Greetings Everyone!
 

Hello All!

I have been a dedicated FT'er for almost 7 years, and didn't find this thread till now! :p

I am 34 years old, live and work in the SF Bay area in the field of IT outsourcing. Married with a precocious 3 year old daughter who loves transpac flights more than me! :) Long time SQ flyer and still think SQ is one of the best ways to fly! I travel to Asia quite frequently for work.

Interests include : civil aviation (duh!), travelling, cooking and Scrabble!

Hello
 

I am Ashley Lenhart, I am a blogger and I do love to Travel. Ireland is my favorite thus far.

I've just joined, and am thoroughly enjoying reading and learning. Very entertaining too! I'm Australian, late 50's, with a Canadian partner. We live in Aus and really have only travelled back and forth a couple of times to Ontario. There's so much for me to learn here on this forum - so I appreciate the wealth of experience shared by it's members.

Welcome to FT: Ozzie branch :)
People here and from AFF have regular meet ups. Even had Oz Fest in Hobart a few years ago.
Tassie questions need answering in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ocean...h-pacific-461/ from time to time.
(In the lingo / abbreviations used on FT Aus means Austin Texas to many - AUS is the airport code. Not Aus = Aust = Aussie = Ozzie = Australia)

Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering !!:D

Thanks for the welcome, Mwenenzi! (and I'll remember about the AUS = Austin Texas, it had never occurred to me! :)) I would be happy to answer any questions about the wonderful island state of Tasmania.

Brand new to the community
 

Hello Everyone,

I wasn't sure if I should post an introduction, but decided to go ahead and state my reason for joining this forum.
I'm extremely new to aviation- so new that I'm only just now planning my first trip in the air with a pilot. I wanted to join a community of flyers though to gain insight into what your jobs are like, in case this is something that I feel would be a good fit for me.
I'm trying to find a solid career path and carve out a life for myself before I get too old to switch gears (hopefully at 26 there's still a bit of time). Flying is something that has stuck in my mind since I was a teenager, so I wanted to explore it at the very least.
Anyway that's a little about me. I hope I'm welcome to post here and ask questions from time to time. My thanks go out to anyone who has taken the time to read this.

Best,
Lauren