Why do YOU fly the amount you do?
 

Interesting reading over various threads about how many tier points some of you earn in a year.

Im an international DJ who happens to be interested in flying too. I earn my tier points flying to gigs across the globe. Off to Georgia ( near russia not USA) this week which is a really annoying connection flight, going to IST from LHR and then on.

My flights are paid by the promoters booking me. Flights have to be C on long hall and are sometimes C for European flights. Where possible i have to be booked on to BA. I love flying British and will support BA , through all their flaws, until my last days!

next week is SYD from LHR for 2 weeks then home.

What do you do to earn your points and are any of you simply leisure travellers?

What type of music?

I probably don't travel enough, but I don't envy the amount of travelling CWS does, I think my perfect balance is somewhere in between.

Seeing new places, visiting favourite places and of course work.

BA makes sense as they have a good route network and although they have their flaws (MONOPOLE :mad:) they have great people working for them and I can honestly say that the vast majority of my flights are good, a few indifferent and nothing really terrible.

Underground house and a splash of techno when it's right (i/e in a warehouse at 4am!)

I like supporting BA. There's a lot of complaining on here, but i understand that it's a huge company under strain from the changes in people's flying patterns (i.e low budget competition etc etc).

I feel at home when on BA. Sure ET may have some better aspects but you can't price a nice British welcome. Something i'm proud of, and also living in London the destinations are by far the best for what I need to do most regularily.

I'm a simple leisure traveller. We fly in business class which gives us all the benefits without having to worry about tier points and year end dates. I willingly accept status when it comes along for nowt though.

Our foreign travel has been curtailed somewhat due to having a numpty in charge of the country.

My travel is probably 50/50 work and leisure, but I'm lucky in that I can kind of decide how much I travel for work and I'm often able to combie work and leisure travel.

I am interested in status mainly because when I travel personally i'm usually flying in economy as I like to do lots of short hops in South East Asia (bassed in Singapore). Having the lounge to start off the trip really gets me into the holiday mood, and generally the experience is much better for me.

I am a leisure flyer, no part of my job involves travel at all.
My husband and I used to travel as often as we could and I am still visiting as many places as I can.

95% leisure travel for me. Usually European city breaks - it's my one big luxury as I'm at a point in my life where I don't yet have a family or responsibilities, so I have an optimum time/money combo!

100% leisure all my work related travel is by Motorcycle on my own pound. I am a tier point runner (well done 1 ) second is March-April with a holiday in the middle
John

80% work, but when you fly regularly (65 - 70 segments a year) then 'just hopping on a plane' becomes second nature / almost the default mode of transport. This leads to more leisure flights, than I would have otherwise taken.

Oh, and if you have soundcloud, please post a link!

I travel entirely for leisure, although I self fund myself moving around a few of my work sites and home. Those flights go to another airline's program, though.

For BAEC, I am entirely self-funded and the flights are for leisure. I get a kick out of travelling and decided a number of years ago that I was going to structure my work around my desire to travel internationally, and I was going to spend a chunk of my income on that too. I'm looking for value when travel, so have to think hard about what I fly. The decision to switch to BAEC was after QFF had devalued their program, and I've always liked BA when flying (except the heavy fuel surcharges!).

As the topic is about flying in general as opposed to being about a specific airline/alliance etc, this thread has been moved from the BAEC forum to Travel Buzz to open it up to a wider audience.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

LTN Phobia
Moderator: BA forum

Why do YOU fly the amount you do?
 

Occasional work travel, but in Y even on LH so I either pay the difference for WTP and then UuA or POUG where possible. I have an American wife so finding cost effective ways to get across the pond in premium cabins was a big motivator. Thanks FT! Between the two I've managed Silver over the last few years with one year as Gold. I would not count myself as a frequent flyer.

However, this year I will finish on 0 TPs unless something major happens before 8 September. Hopefully next year will be much better and the relegation to rust won't last long.

Why? Because I have a job that requires me to be mobile and to go wherever we win work. Hence nearly 200 flights a year, mostly with BA and mostly at the non-pointy end of the plane. But it does give me shedloads of miles, so leisure travel is always in the posh seats.

Well, for work, it's partly the nature of my role, and partly the nature of the work, which is for a company based in another country, with a lot of operations and development work done in Indian. My particular role is one that's far better carried out face-to-face, and, well, I volunteer a lot for travel because I enjoy it so much (and am always able to make an adventure out of a business trip :))

For leisure, I just have incredibly itchy feet. If I'm away for work over a weekend, you can guarantee I'll be out and about - and if me and MrsStut can possibly get away, whether a Ryanair cheapie to France or Spain, or a BAEC CW redemption much further afield.

I enjoy nothing better than exploring somewhere new, even if it's just walking round city streets for a while and eating whatever the place does particularly well. If it's somewhere I go back to a lot, then I get the chance to dive deeper, whether it's cycling through back streets and suburbs, or befriending colleagues who can show me their side of the place.

Oh we've been moved! I find other forums scarier than you find south London (based on your profile - are you sure you're not a taxi driver) ;)

We've had a few DJs on here before, some trip reports would be interesting if you have the time. Not just the flight, but the cities you perform in might give some of us some travel ideas.