Ian Mackey

Travel

Updated

I fly a lot for work and for fun. These are notes from the road: writing, places I eat, and a log of everywhere I've flown since 2009.

Writing

All travel writing

Restaurants

All restaurants

Points

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Flight log

Tracked in Flighty since 20091.

423
Flights
479k
Miles
51d
In the Air
18
Countries

Last flight , OAK → BUR.

Airports visited

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Flights per year

  1. 20098
  2. 2010—
  3. 2011—
  4. 20127
  5. 20136
  6. 20142
  7. 201512
  8. 20166
  9. 201711
  10. 20188
  11. 20193
  12. 20206
  13. 202134
  14. 202247
  15. 2023105
  16. 202462
  17. 202567
  18. 2026 YTD39

Airlines

  1. American188
  2. Alaska76
  3. Southwest42
  4. United25
  5. Delta22
  6. British Airways13

Routes

  1. LAX–PHX59
  2. LAX–LAS37
  3. LAS–SFO35
  4. PHX–SFO22
  5. LAX–SFO14
  6. LAS–PHX13
  7. BUR–PHX13
  8. BUR–LAS11

Records

Longest flight
LAX → MEL, 7,927 miles
Shortest flight
PHL ↔ MDT, 83 miles
Most flown route
LAX ↔ PHX, 59 times
Most common aircraft
Boeing 737-800, 82 flights
Most used airport
LAX, 166 touches
Busiest month
September, 47 flights

Footnotes

  1. I didn't record all my flights from earlier years, so some data is missing. Canceled flights are excluded from the totals here.↩