Hey from San Diego...
 

Just joined from San Diego. I'm the son of a retired TWA 747 Captain and grew up flying TWA all over the place, got hooked on flying, and hence the addiction contimues. I travel mostly now from San Diego to India twice a year to visit my adopted family and to continue some charity farm & education projects that I started in 2008. I hope to enjoy and contribute to this forum!:cool:

Hi I'm new here.. just call me cherry :) great have this forum.... :) by d way I'm from Philippines... :)

Hi everyone!
 

Hi everyone! My name is Paul Wilson. Looking forward and very much excited to view your posts. Please feel free to have a look and read my posts too. I really hope to have a great stay here and share my knowledge as well. See you around! :) Nice meeting you all!:cool:

Introduce ourself
 

Hello everyone,
My name is Martin from US and i want here introduction thread. The new members are confused:confused: when they are going for the first post, they cant understand how to start the first post? Thats why introduction thread is helpful for make a first comment and then start posting with on topic.

Thanks Martin - I'll move this into the thread we already have for introducing ourselves.

Jenbel
Co-moderator Communitybuzz!

Hi all,

Enda living in London, UK. Fly from LHR and GTW.

Hello all from newbie thevalk who lives in Australia and is always trying to find the cheapest airfare from Oz to Europe.

Welcome aboard y'all!

Name is Pat, been perusing this site for over a year now, and now I have joined up. I work in broadcast operations for an ABC/FOX combo. Have an interest in aviation, and I like what I see on this site.

PDewar here. Just joined after being a ghost reader for a few weeks now. Love travel and love to fly so a huge reader of this board. Live primarily in the US and do my work in China. Travel the ORD > HK route (in fact, sitting in UA lounge awaiting boarding as we speak). Looking forward to interacting.

Hello
 

Hello all!

I live in Texas and travel a little bit of everywhere in Texas, North America and Europe. Reading FT has been useful, but being able to ask questions and to share my own experiences should be even more so.

winston3-4 references a flyrod, not a cigarette :-) Generally excitable traveller from NW Arkansas, a teacher at the Univ of Arkansas, and a lurker on FT for about a year now.

Hi all,

My name is Hayo from the Netherlands. Currently I'm studying Information Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. I have been following this forum sometimes.

I just came back from my holiday and decided that I wanted to write trip reports from the flights I made. So I decided to register here when I discovered that I had to pay for complete forum access at Airliners.net...

I'm loving aviation and try to stay up to date with the latest news about aviation and I'm always curious about what the future of aviation will bring us.

Greets!

Introduction!
 

Hello Everyone,
I am the newest member here so just wanted to drop by and introduce myself.

Hi All!

I have actually been a long (very long) time lurker who used to have an account under a different name but forgot it! LOL

Anyway, love this community and glad to finally introduce myself.

I'm from SoCal and still live here :). I do some international travel about once a year (I try to) and some domestic travel through the year.

Looking forward to being more involved! :D

From Colorado, in Sales, new to this site, new to the acronyms - Thanks for the education.

'ello! :) Jaffy here. New York. Work in non-profit/hunger advocacy and abatement. Love to travel but rarely every do! Still getting the hang of all these acronyms, but hopefully it will sink in soon enough.

LOVE reading through the trip reports of places I would be happy to visit on planes and in cabins I can only wish to sit in. Perhaps in time... :)

Joined FT last year shortly after the mint party was shut down. Now I am now on a quest, searching for a bounty of miles and points. The mission, which I have chosen to accept, is to acquire enough to create the best honeymoon my future wife could ever imagine.

Truth be told, she may not be into traveling. The post-wedding celebration could last a week, a few days or even one all-inclusive night. (Then we could use the miles and points to see family, go on vacation, etc.) But there's more to marriage than being with someone because you like the same things.

Maybe she will love travel — now somewhere accumulating points, reaching the minimum spend faster than I could imagine — and we'll travel the world for a year or more, exploring and getting to know each other better with every place we meet. A guy can dream.

Whatever the case, that's the plan. There are a lot of tempting locales out there, making it easy to deviate from said mission.

I look forward to reading, learning, PMing, sharing (but not blogging), traveling, and meeting with fellow FTers for many miles and points to come.

Old-time traveler; elder in age but new to this site
 

Cheers to all,

I read through all the rules, bylaws, dos and don'ts, and was astonished at how fastidious and how well organized and controlled this site is; makes me feel a little safer to participate, but also makes me feel like I shouldn't say anything out of line, so feeling squelched, and not sure if this is good or bad.

My name is Stu, late 50's, have worked in Higher Ed for over 30 years with the last 13 of those years traveling 48 weeks per year. All I was trying to do was find ways to get rid of a slew of Delta miles in return for some SPG points, did a google, a lot of crap came up, but the this site came up too. Doesn't look like (at least from my first perusal through) this site will help me at all with my charge at hand, which is to get SPG points for Delta miles, but it does look like a very interesting site, with some great folks who have lots of wonderful and sage experience and that regardless of why I got here ... that this might be quite a treasure to have stumbled across.

I am a Project Manager, Solution Architect, Senior Consultant, Change Management agent, Trainer, Curriuclum Writer, and all-in-all, jack-of-all whatever when it comes to implementation of ERP software at colleges, universities and schools. Prior to the 12 years of the above, I spent 10 years as Director of Admissions, Director of International Students and Scholars, Assistant Registrar, Academic Advisor and a couple of other Higher Admin positions at Boston University, University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Bottom line, I travel a lot ... domestic and international. What used to be fun and exciting, now pretty much is arduous and disgusting. However, the actual physical act of flying, finding decent hotels, and meeting people is still fun. But, I like to find any web sites and meet any people who can help me still think that what I do, as far as travel, is worth the actual pain and crap that it truly is. My major reason to continue doing what I do anymore is first of all, I love my clients, but after that, I just do love to go to new and different places, but I also like to then share that travel with my partner, and get some benefit out of all the miles and points I collect. Using those sometimes, actually most of the time, is limited and ends up being of limited or no value. I continue to try and find ways to use those benefits in a more effective and creative manner.

So, is that enough of an introduction?

Hi everyone,,

I'm Alex and a little kid from HK but is going to study Sixth Form (so you know my age approx) in the UK. I would say that I like travelling, especially air travel :D I'm a little of a fan in airliners and know something about this plane and the another.

It's amazing to see such a big community helping out on travelling issues, it's great info and assistance.

Thanks =]

coondog
 

Hello my name is Dave and I'm excited about being on this site.I have miles on Delta, United and American that I have never used. My goal is to visit the eight states and three continents I haven't visited in the next 2 years plus have fun playing the miles game.

Fudgepanda here, but you can call me, well, fudgepanda I suppose. Work at an airport and fly fairly rarely and almost exclusively in Europe. Came to this forum from a link from elsewhere so thought I'd join up. Never actually had any airline rewards as by the time I had enough to use them I'd probably have shuffled off this mortal coil.

Hello!
I am anew here and I am happy to be part of Flyer Talk. I'm very excited. Can any one suggest where should I start?

Hi

Just joined. My role at work (IBM) is changing and I'll likely be flying more often (one trip a month or so). Not much compared to some here, but more than I have been. So I figured I could learn from the pros so to speak.

I'll likely have one or two international trips a year, with the rest scattered all around the US. So far this year I've been to Beijing and have a trip to Sao Paulo planned in a month or so. I have 3 other domestic trips planned this fall.

I've looked at Global Entry, but not sure I want to drop $100 on it for a couple of trips a year. I don't know if work will pay for it. I'll investigate.

For most of the places I fly (business and personal) SWA has good fares, so I try to stick with them (recently got a points card associated with that program). When they are not an option, I tend towards United as they are also my go-to international carrier for building points for upgrades. (I had to sit in the back of the bus to and from Beijing... horrible. I hope to have enough points to upgrade next trip over)

I'm not an amateur traveler (maybe "advanced"), but as my frequency of travel increases, I will want to bump that level, and came here for tips, tricks and research.

Thanks in advance.

Finally able to travel
 

Hello All,

I'm a long-time lurker who finally decided to create an account and try to become more active on FT. For a decade I've been into finding Hot Deals for earning $$$ or saving $$$ on products, and now I'd like to expand my horizons toward travel.

For me, business travel is near zero. All near-term travel will be personal. So I'd like to better understand the tricks of the trade to find low fares, great deals, and ways to collect miles/points.

My wife shares the interest of travel, so we'd like to expand our horizons.

Thanks,
-WT

I want to earn 1500 bonus aero plan miles
 

How can I do the speed pass at esso

Learning is the key!
 

Finally signing up..
 

Hello everyone,
I have used this forum from time to time for silent advice. But now that I need some active advice I figured it was time to say hi.

Have a great weekend.

-Masa.

First message, all about me !
 

Name: Shane Dallimore
Location: UK

Sim flying since 1981 !

Have been a member of VPA (Virtual Pilots Association) for 7 years ^

Hi All,

My name is Dan, i'm early 30's and in law enforcement from the MSN area. I have been a LEO for five years and previously spent nine years in the USMC and WI ARNG. I met my wife while in the academy, and we enjoy flying out of MKE to visit family in SEA, LWS and SFO areas. No children in the house yet, but with two rescues (one hound and one collie) we stay on our toes.

In the past year I began looking at our frequent flights to SEA, LWS, ATL and soon to be YUM thinking we're missing out on miles and perks. I previously was an airline refueler at MKE and fell in love with MWE. With the passing of MWE, we found UA and AK Air to suit our needs. We are just getting started on accumulating UA miles, somewhere near 100k miles and counting. We loved LIH for our honeymoon, but I'd like to suprise my wife with a PRG and BRU visit in 2014 for our 5 year. I'm hoping to learn from seasoned flyers here and make the trip happen with miles when that happens.

Thanks for the forum, and looking forward to many more posts.

Dan

Hi y'all,

I've mainly lurked on this forum but through doing so have gained some valuable info. I just did my second credit card churn and while it was a mini one, I did what I could afford to do with the minimum spend. I currently have the SPG AMEX, SW Biz and Personal Visa (which once my statement closes will have given me the companion pass for the year - wish I could have done it earlier in the year but I wanted to make sure I could hit all minimum spends), HHonors Surpass AMEX and the HHonors Citibank Visa.

I'm looking for cheap ways to travel and save mainly on hotels right now. I recently finished up all my schooling for teaching and am on the hunt for a job as a Physical Education teacher. My job will never have an expense account or send me on any business related trips and the salaries are enough to cover basic things, but my passion is travel so I must find creative ways to travel for less which is how I ended up here.

The ultimate goal is a trip to Australia with in a year or two with the ability to pay for hotels (and if I can figure out a way, at least one leg of the flight) with points.

Looking forward to learning more from all of you and continuing the quest to gain miles and hotel points.

- Colls

Introduction New member !!
 

Hello friends

My name is Carter Collins , a very new guys to this forum. I am very excite here to take part in discussions.

Thanks and regards
Carter Collins

Good afternoon,

Teamstone (Tom) here. 50 years old and travel in an audit role out of the MSP base. Mostly fly Delta (for some strange reason). I have a number of different cards including the Reserve Delta and Delta Business Platinum, US Bank Flexperks and Quicken Chase travel card.

Have never done a "traditional" MR, however I have just decided to piggyback a modified MR to a LAX business trip. I will be flying to SJU for 3 nights (complements of Marriott). Flight at $317 was paid for by a VDB voucher and netting about 8000 miles.

I've received a lot of help already and look to get and give more. Hoping to hit a DO one of these days.

I have consolidated my hotels to the Marriott chain.

I also enjoy traveling for pleasure .

Welcome. Just start posting, look for do's & you'll make lots of friends.

Hi FT-

Like many others, decided to make my first post here. Been lurking for awhile and mainly just learning the ins and outs. Hard to believe the wealth of information thats out there if you just spend some time looking for it.

Looking forward to learning more everyday and eventually being able to give back as much as I've learned.

See you in the air

Shawn

Hi,

My name is Tamrin and I lived in Singapore for the past 22 years or more XD. I love aviation so much that I became an aircraft cleaner before my National Service even though my pay was low. But now I am free after two years of "Government Bond"!!!

I have set up XX due to my interest in Aviation photography and Asian aviation landscape. I hope you guys can give support to it.

I will be travelling to Bali at end-September and Bangkok at early-October. Cheers!

Welcome to our newest members!

We're better for having you here.

Hi Flyertalk,

I've been looking at this website for the past two years and over those past two years my travel has increased and so has my knowledge of the industry. I am looking forward to continuing making this place even better.

A Newcomer
 

Hello Members,

Well! Let me introduce myself, I am Steve Spencer, a newcomer to this forum. I want to learn a lot of things from your forum as it has many informative things. I want more information on Airports. Hope for your support and cooperation.


Thanks and Regards,
Steve Spencer

Introduction
 

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