ua1flyer - A "Real" Up-In-The-Air GS
Dec 26, 2018, 1:22 pm
#1531
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Dec 27, 2018, 3:40 am
#1532
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: ord,ewr
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Dec 27, 2018, 3:45 am
#1533
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Awesome! So... gotta ask... is your enjoyment of flying keeping your retirement date at bay? Many of us have some fear of the grim reaper, and consider retirement a way to enjoy the time we have left. But you might be like my Grandfather, a farmer who spent his life in the fields, which he really loved. "Retirement" meant missing out on that. He didn't get to drive his old Chevy with his favorite dog through the fields anymore. What would you do without a plane to catch? :-)
Dec 27, 2018, 8:45 am
#1534
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: HKG • Ex SFO, NYC
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Dec 27, 2018, 9:08 am
#1535
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: UA 1K 1MM, AA, DL
Posts: 7,415
Pretty impressive - averaging 285% fare class multiplier for the entire year!
Dec 29, 2018, 1:43 pm
#1537
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Washington, DC
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Unless UA gives you special extra fast planes, my back of the envelope calcs say that means ~2800 hours airborne, plus even more adding in departure time, taxiing, and arrival time in airports/airplanes, maybe another 500 hours (I'm assuming you're mostly long-haul). If so, your travel time alone is over 35% of the hours in a year!
Hope you get to live some live on the plane, whether eating, sleeping, reading, or watching the movies you don't have time to see in the remaining time you have on the ground . . .
Hope you get to live some live on the plane, whether eating, sleeping, reading, or watching the movies you don't have time to see in the remaining time you have on the ground . . .
Dec 30, 2018, 7:51 am
#1538
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 77
Congrats Tom. Looking forward to seeing where your numbers land at the end of the year. Happy holidays!
Dec 30, 2018, 11:46 pm
#1539
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: MCI
Posts: 698
I assume you travel quite a bit for your work?
edit: can ignore this post. I didn't realize who I was quoting until I actually read the top post of this thread!
Last edited by ginmqi; Dec 31, 2018 at 1:41 am
Dec 31, 2018, 1:24 am
#1540
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Dec 31, 2018, 1:40 am
#1541
Join Date: Nov 2014
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Indeed I feel like an idiot for posting that but now I am aware and not a surprise at all that he frequents FT.
Dec 31, 2018, 6:06 am
#1542
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Doh! Oh wow, I just somehow realized the entire thread is dedicated to Tom and now I actually remember reading about a guy who is the world's most frequent flier....I see!
Indeed I feel like an idiot for posting that but now I am aware and not a surprise at all that he frequents FT.
Indeed I feel like an idiot for posting that but now I am aware and not a surprise at all that he frequents FT.
No need to feel silly - just enjoy the ride with him.
Jan 1, 2019, 2:07 pm
#1543
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Melbourne MEL Calgary YYC
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Good Morning Tom, happy January 1st, did you make 1K yet or is it a slow start...... lol
sitting in Melbourne let me know when you pas thru again , fly syd-sfo Friday
sitting in Melbourne let me know when you pas thru again , fly syd-sfo Friday
Jan 1, 2019, 5:53 pm
#1544
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happy new year everybody and may 2019 be even better for us all.
Jan 2, 2019, 3:31 pm
#1545
Join Date: Aug 2008
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