Fewer flights for me in 2014 and none to USA or Canada (in 2013, I had 3 x LAX/SNA, 3 flights to Canada including YVR, YEG, YVG, Thunder Bay, YYZ, YUL, YQM …).
So only about 40 flights in 2014, some multi-sectors.
I’ll remember MME, Durham-Teesside, a first for me.
Tell me about a ghost airport. OK, besides the two dailies with KL the screens also show AF, SU, AZ, Kenya Airways, DL, EY, … but these are code shares !
I also had a marathon flight in February : BRU-ZRH-DXB-BLR-PNQ.
The LH/Privatair direct from FRA to Pune seems attractive but much less so in a 737 for +8h (non-stop) outbound and +10h inbound (tech stop in OTP). Of course you can always (try to) book in C but these flights are usually sold out weeks in advance, and … come at +4k€ !
So I enjoyed a midnight dinner at the Meridien Village and went back to the airport to board the EK flight at 03:00lt (ouch).
Return flight was daytime PNQ-DEL-DXB where I worked for a couple of days, then DXB-ZRH-BRU.
But this flight had a continuation that was : BRU-Home-Shower-Office-BRU-FRA-GDN. I’ll stop doing these crazy things …as soon as I turn 35
Return the next day via MUC. I burned some miles for an upgrade on FRA-GDN-MUC. Nice and worth it.
Also very nice (well, long and boring flight but I mean service-wise) was TK to JNB in a 773. Even in cattle class you got a Menu card, slippers, …
“Sentimentally” the most important for me was to return to Brazil after, ahem a
few years.
I was involved in the project of turning the then Cumbica air base into the airport known since as … Guarulhos. For some strange reason I never returned to Brazil for 30 years so it was the first time I could see “my baby” in operation.
With 40M Pax/year I’d say the baby has grown up. The T3 was built in record time and inaugurated for the World Cup. T3 is home for most international flights ; TAM and LAN have moved there as well.
BRU-ZRH-GRU with LX.
CGH-BSB-CGH with TAM.
GRU-ZRH-BRU with LX.
Last flight of the year was BRU-KGL-EBB with SN. Return was EBB-KGL with RwandAir to catch the bus back via NBO. SN in Y, return in C, very nice.
I shall report on this one.
One sure thing : I'm not better in 2015 when it comes to add pics in my post
H.A.
