For airline geeks like me, or for folks interested in keeping track of their air mileage or flying habits, German-based website, FlightMemory.com, records and organizes your travel data, offering whimsical statistics and personal route maps.After entering destination, schedule, and seating information for about 90% of the flights I've ever taken, FlightMemory calculates how many times I could have circumnavigated the Earth (8.9), my longest and shortest flights (that Seoul-LA hop was a killa), and how often I've sat in the front, middle, or back of the plane (of 224 flights, I've flown first 3 times, business 9 times, and cattle class 211 times).
I also get these lovely maps, plotting my flight paths within and outside of the US (you can tell I'm an East Coast boy with Latin American tendencies), and when I decide I like the looks of things, I can order a more colorful, detailed wall map so I can brag about my travels even more than I do now.
Other trivial tidbits include my top ten airports, airlines, aircraft, and routes (BOG, Delta, Boeing 737, and Bogotá-Barranquilla, respectively) based on actual flights flown, not so much personal preference.
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Nice resource FB. Will put this in my weekly travel news post.
ReplyDeleteYou've flown 224 times....? Over how many years? Still that's a lot!
ReplyDeletethanks to you, the inter-barça game was watching me, rather than me watching it. blah.
ReplyDeleteanyhow, 100 flights, 193k miles, i purposely forgot a few, and yes, i wrote the blog post talking about it before i wrote the comment this time.
that's only post uni flights tho. i don't have the flights i took to the 1990 world cup or the summer my parents chucked me out of the house for a bit and i ran around west africa for six months.
NoDebt: Thanks, dude!
ReplyDeleteInternational: This spans about 15 years. I'm not like your boy in "Up In the Air," but I will say that 99.9% of my trips were either leisure or visiting the family.
Kwere: I responded to the post on your blog. You're supposed to put ALL the flights in, player! It's addictive, ain't it?
Man! I don't even want to think about how many times I've flown...Trips to Jamaica and all around the U.S. to visit family are the story of my childhood... And then present-day jet-setting means I've gotten pretty comfy with airport lounges... My next trip is on Monday to Beijing. :-)
ReplyDeletei'll add them eventually. something that i also did this morning was change my home country on the site to a european one. in doing so i got get a spin-out of all of the european flights i've taken as well, which i've edited my blog post to reflect.
ReplyDeleteit may do the same for asia, but i haven't spun it out. i haven't been through asia in almost three decades, so...
Nikita: Don't do nothing crazy in the Forbidden City! *wink*
ReplyDeleteKwere: Damn, K...there's nothing I can say I haven't done in three decades other than wet my diaper.