Wrapping up 2019
 

It is time for 2019 statistics

Airports: 17 (HEL, OUL, TKU, ARN, CPH, BRU, FRA, MUC, ZAG, FCO, AGP, LIS, JFK, AUS, ORD, CUN, SIN)
Carriers: 4 (AY, AA, LH, OU) + Norra for AY
Segments: 77
Countries: 12
Longest: SIN-HEL
Shortest: HEL-TKU
Northernmost: OUL
Southernmost: SIN
Westernmost: AUS
Easternmost: SIN
Plat renewed

How about you? Happy New Year for you all!

Airports: 26
Carriers: 7 (AY, SK, QR, CX, KA, SQ & MI)
Segments: 144
Countries: 21
Longest: SIN-LHR
Shortest: HEL-TLL
Northernmost: OUL
Southernmost: SIN
Westernmost: LAX
Easternmost: PKX

Plat renewed and we shall see if something's achieved in Jan 2020 :)

Happy new year!

Airports: 20
Carriers: 8 (AY, AA, BA, IB, LA, DL, SK, W9)
Segments: 58
Countries: 9
Longest: MAD-JFK
Shortest: JFK-DCA
Northernmost: IVL
Southernmost: MSY
Westernmost: MSY
Easternmost: KAO

Earned AY+ Gold (via status challenge from SK) and renewed it

Airports 30
Carriers: 10
Segments: 162 (18 of them with junior on my lap)
Countries: 14
Longest: HEL-LAX
Shortest: HEL-TMP
Northernmost: OUL
Southernmost: MEL
Westernmost: LAX
Easternmost: NRT

Plan to keep with AY enough to earn Lumo in 2020 but I have begun to spread my earnings out a bit. Maybe I will hit lifetime platsku next year or at least in 2021 at latest.

Happy New Year 🥳

Airports KUO, HEL, TLL, ARN, VIE, AMS, LHR, BCN, MIA, PVR
Carriers: AY (+NorRA), KL
Segments: 88
Countries: FI, EE, SE, AT, NL, UK, ES, USA, MEX
Longest: HEL-PVR
Shortest: HEL-TLL
Northernmost: KUO
Southernmost: PVR
Westernmost: PVR
Easternmost: KUO

AY Plat retained. BT Vip by status match.

Too much flying in 2019, I was a climate terrorist. Did not count how many, so marking just new ones or highlights:

New Airports: AGP BRG BEG MXP TRD OER KTT KRK BOM DEL KUL JYV TGG (weirdest of the year) DPS DXB
New Carriers: TR AI QZ JU MH
Segments: well over 200 (some 180 AY)
New Countries: Vatican, Serbia, India,Malaysia, UAE
Longest: HEL-SIN
Shortest: MHQ-TKU
Northernmost: KTT (new)
Southernmost: DPS (new)
Westernmost: AGP (de verdad, hasta ahora??!!)
Easternmost: NGO

Hit AY Lumo in september but quite sure not doing again by segments. Too tough.

Low year for me due to new kid's arrival...

Airports: 17
Carriers: 11
Segments: 52
Countries: 13
Longest: LHR-LAX
Shortest: OPO-LIS
Northernmost: HEL
Southernmost: JNB
Westernmost: HNL
Easternmost: DOH

New airports: VTE, CNX, PUQ, SCL, PMC, BON, SDQ
Longest: MAD-SCL
Shortest: PUS-ICN
Northernmost: HEL
Easternmost: MEL
Westernmost: PMC (who knows this by heart?)
Southernmost: PUQ (I doubt anyone beats me)

Got lumo with economy points.

Yours definitely more appealing new ones than mine :) were!

Closest to PMC I was in CCP from where I wanted to drive down ”deep south” but only visited Los Angeles ;) and time was out

Reflektia,

btw your southern trip sounds like a trip report coming?

Airports: 36 (Top-8 Helsinki, Basel, Zürich, London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Stuttgart)
Carriers: 13 (Finnair 45% of the segments, Lufthansa and American 11% each, rest <10%)
Segments: 121 (1 x First, 63 x Business, 57 x Economy)
Countries: 19

Longest: Frankfurt – Tokyo Haneda
Shortest: Munich – Prague

Northernmost: Helsinki
Southernmost: Bangkok
Westernmost: San Francisco or Seattle
Easternmost: Tokyo

This year I reached Finnair Plus Lumo. Downgraded from SAS Eurobonus Diamond to Gold (which I have in any case due to Lifetime Gold). Maintained Swiss Senator (renewed status previous year, no need to do it this year). I am still undecided about next year, whether to focus on renewing Lumo or Senator. Reaching both seems to be quite a stretch and requires optimisation. For me, Lumo was a positive surprise, above expectations.

Segments: 40
Longest: LIM-MAD
Shortest: FRS-GUA
Easternmost: SKG
Westernmost: PIU
Northernmost: HEL
Southernmost: MDZ
New airports: IGU, IGR, SLA, COR, MDZ, PIU, SKG, TGD, DBV
Airlines: 3U, A3, AA, AR, AV, AY, CM, IB, LA, P9, SK, TP, UA

Nah, nothing really special there. Punta Arenas is nice place, good climate for Finns, good size town and some bars and pubs. Maybe next time I've time for sightseeing. It's very long way to faraway. Especially in Iberia's A346 economy. Luckily it's 8 abreast, so quite ok-ish space.

4½h HEL-MAD, 13h MAD-SCL and 4h SCL-PUQ is not my favorite trip. Altho from there I had to go to South Korea which was also little bit faraway.

A bit OT, but I'd be interested in hearing more about this

First, my expectations for Lumo were low and easy to exceed. But the two soft perks that I have liked most are the onboard recognition and flexibility from customer service. I get the feeling that I can trust to get priority and flexible solutions when they are needed. For example, the management of one irregularity was magnificent, similarly as flexibility with some bookings that required unexpected changes.