Most miles flown in a calendar year?
Jan 29, 2009, 12:58 pm
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Most miles flown in a calendar year?
I've always been curious, what's the most number of actual flown miles that anyone has had in a single calendar year? 300K? 400K? I wonder what the record is...
Jan 29, 2009, 1:02 pm
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There was a thread on FT (I think this forum) where a member claimed over a million miles in one year.
Jan 29, 2009, 1:17 pm
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Jan 29, 2009, 1:27 pm
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At 550mph, 1,000,000 miles would be 35 hours flying per week, every week. That seems to stretch the imagination. Unless it were a pilot... or an astronaut, maybe.@:-)
Jan 29, 2009, 1:35 pm
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I find it hard to believe that one can fly a million miles in a year. Maybe he earned a total of 1 million miles in a year.
Jan 29, 2009, 1:39 pm
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Jan 29, 2009, 1:47 pm
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Jan 29, 2009, 1:48 pm
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Said person claimed that they worked basically full time in Asia but had a family in CA. They didn't want to live in Asia, so they "lived" in CA and worked in Asia. Really (if true) they lived in an airplane.
Jan 29, 2009, 3:20 pm
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My busiest travel year so far was 2007 with 487,716 flown miles (doesn't include any bonuses, or minimum mileage). There are FTers who fly more than me.
Jan 29, 2009, 3:49 pm
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My busiest travel year so far was 2007 with 487,716 flown miles (doesn't include any bonuses, or minimum mileage).
Jan 29, 2009, 5:16 pm
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I have a friend who did ~750k miles in 2000. He was a Y2K project manager for a large multinational. He said out of the project team of 15 start started the project in 1998 and 2000 14 quit during the project due to the travel commitments.