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2024 – My Year in Travel

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Like I did in 2023, I will kick off my looking back to the year 2024 with some travel facts and statistics. Traveling is still the key motivation why I run Flyctory.com, so I feel some travel facts and statistics are absolutely worth sharing and discussing, before I inrtoduce you to my favorite music and experiences during 2024 in other year-end reviews.

 

Countries I Traveled To

There is just two countries I in fact immigrated into which I haven’t visited before in my life: Qatar and Indonesia. My trip there in October 2024 was also the first time I set foot on the Southern hemisphere. Here are some statistics about my travel in general from a geographical perspective.

 

New Countries 2024

I count every new country in here. Qatar was the first time I immigrated to the country and not just transferred. Thus, I mention it below. In two new countries, I just had a transfer at the airport. My visit to Indonesia was the first time stepping foot on the Southern Hemisphere:

 

Countries I visited again in 2024

Here are the “already known” countries I visited in 2024 in chronological order.

 

Aviation

This is my aviation statistics for 2024:

Number of Flights 90
Total Scheduled Flight Time 242:13 hrs
Total Distance Flown 90,843 miles / 146.187 km
Longest Distance (circle map) Los Angeles (LAX) – Frankfurt (FRA), 2.1.2024, 9,332 km
Longest Flight (time) Los Angeles (LAX) – Frankfurt (FRA), 2.1.2024, 10:55 hrs
Average Flight 2:41 hrs, 1,624 kms
Number of Airports 44
Number of Airlines 26
Number of different planes 80
Number of Plane Types 21
Number of countries flown 27

Some extreme points of my trips:

Northernmost Airport 2024 Keflavik (KEF), Iceland
Southernmost Airport 2024 Jakarta (CGK), Indonesia
Westernmost Airport 2024 Los Angeles (LAX), USA
Easternmost Airport 2024 Jakarta (CGK), Indonesia

And a split of flights by class:

First Class Flights 2024 2
Business Class Flights 2024 46
Prem. Economy Flights 2024 1
Economy Class Flights 2024 41

I by the way do only count flights from one place to another (no scenic round trips).

 

New Airports in 2024:

Here are the airports I flew to for the very first time in 2024, in chronological order:

 

New Airlines in 2024:

Here are the airlines I flew to for the very first time in 2024, in chronological order:

 

Most Frequently Flown Airports in 2024:

Here are my most frequently used airports in 2024. Each take-off and landing counts separately.

Airport # Flights
1 Dusseldorf (DUS) 29
2 Amsterdam (AMS) 23
3 London (LHR) 13
4 Paris (CDG) 10
5 Cologne / Bonn (CGN) 8

By the way, the most-frequently flown non-European airports are Abu Dhabi (AUH), Doha (DOH), Tunis (TUN) and Jeddah (JED), with 4 connections each.

 

Most Frequently Flown Airlines in 2024:

KLM, especially with their Cityhopper fleet took the lead in my airline statistics in 2024:

Airlines # Flights
1 KLM Cityhopper 14
2 British Airways 12
3 Hop! 8
4 German Airways
Eurowings
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines		 5 each
Most Frequently Flown Plane Type in 2024:

I typically do not distinguish between different sub-series of the same plane type in my statistics, e.g. between a A340-400 and an A340-600. I split out the neo and MAX versions, though.

Plane Types # Flights
1 Airbus A320 21
2 Embraer 190 17
3 Embraer 175 6
4 Embraer 195 5

Rail Travel

Rail travel is an important part of my journeys. I absolutely enjoy being able to work or relax while in transit.

 

Rail Companies I Used in 2024

I had trips with the following rail companies.

The difference between rail companies and light rails or funiculars is sometimes hard to take. I tried to focus on longer distance rail situations.

 

Longest Rail Trips in 2024

Here are the longest rail trips I took. The times are based on the scheduled travel time, not on the one in fact traveled.

Hrs Trip
15:07 h Gothenburg – Malmö – Copenhagen – Hamburg – Cologne
(21./22.12.2024, excludes 9 hr overnight break in Malmö)
12:43 h Budapest – Vienna – Munich – Cologne (18.10.2024)
8:42 h Innsbruck – Munich – Cologne (2.11.2024)
7:50 h Cologne – Munich – Innbsruck (30.10.2024)

None of the trains listed above were night trains.

 

Hotels 2024

Overall, I spent 132 nights in hotels during 2024. Here are some more insights.

 

Most Popular Hotels 2024

I had five nights each in three different hotels in 2024. While the other two ones have been five nights in one stay, I had multiple stays at the lovely Hilton Munch Airport.

# Nights Hotel
5 Hilton Munich Airport
5 Hampton Inn Fall River / Westport
5 EnjoyNature B&B

 

Hotel Nights by Country 2024

It is still Home Sweet Home as the dominating country in which I stayed in during 2024. France pushed forward due to the Olympic Games and some job-related trips. Overall, I stayed in 21 different countries overnight during 2024.

# Nights Country
35 Germany
19 USA
12 United Arab Emirates
10 France
7 each Switzerland
Ireland
Austria
Hotel Nights by City 2024

Business-related trips gave a strong focus on Paris and Dublin, which Munich and Dubai have been rather “normal trips” during my 2024 travel campaign.

# Nights City
9 Munich
8 Paris
7 each Dublin
Dubai
Hotel Nights by Hotel Group 2024

I’m a Hilton b*tch – and things won’t change in that regard, I believe. Accor is one of my key other overnight providers. I more and more enjoyed staying with Deutsche Hospitality this year as well.

# Nights Brand
66 Hilton Hotels
19 Accor Group
16 Hotels not organized in a hotel group
6 Deutsche Hospitality
Hotel Stays by Hotel Group 2024

If you just count the stays (i.e. regardless of the number of nights I stayed in), the statistics does not look that much different.

# Stays Brand
37 Hilton Hotels
14 Accor Group
9 Hotels not organized in a hotel group
6 Deutsche Hospitality

Other

I feel that there is a lot more potential for information than I am providing here. But still, maybe you like this initial view.

 

Car Rental by Provider

I did not have that many rental car bookings this year:

# Cal. Days Provider
20 Hertz
9 Alamo
5 Sixt

 

Title picture: Whoosh Indonesian high speed train

 

Postings about Flyctory.com

I sometimes write about the development of this blog, upgrades and other internal topics:

 

Japan on Flyctory.com

Here are all my postings related to Japan:

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