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My Best Travel Experiences of 2019: Flights and Hotels
Time to wrap up 2019 with an overview of my travel highlights of the year. In this post I review my best flight and hotel experiences of the year. In a second post, I talk about my favourite destinations of 2019.
Flights
2019 was another great aviation year for me with:
- 107 flights (152,446 miles) (6.1x around the earth, 370 hours up in the air)
- 3 First Class flights with British Airways and Qatar Airways
- 24 Business Class flights with Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Cathay Dragon, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Oman Air and Turkish Airlines
- 5 Premium Economy flights with Austrian Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa and Norwegian
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North Vietnam with Cathay Pacific
Last year, I flew the inaugural flight from Brussels to Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific in Business Class. This year, I decided to give Premium Economy a try. As I had already explored Hong Kong before, I added a connecting flight to Hanoi with Cathay Dragon in Business Class.
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My Best Travel Experiences of 2018
Pic: Shipwreck Beach at Zakynthos Island, Greece.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. – Michael Palin. I’m pretty sure that statement is valid for me too! Time to wrap up 2018 with an overview of my travel highlights of the year.
Flights
Pic: Cathay Pacific A350 Business Class (Mar 2018)
After record years 2016 with 116 flights (160,432 miles flown) and 2017 with 122 flights (161,352 miles flown), I ended 2018 with slightly lower flight stats.
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- 95 flights (139,609 miles flown) (5.6x around the earth, 336 hours up in the air)
- 1 First Class flight with Air France
- 15 Business Class flights with Emirates, Kuwait Airways, Swiss, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines.
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