2024 was a big travel year for me. While the number of miles flown didn't top 2023, I was on the move a lot. All told, I was away from home for almost 10 weeks! I flew 30,172 miles on 6 domestic and 7 international flights, spending a total of 69 hours on airplanes.
The average flight time was 5 hours and average distance was 2,321 miles. The longest flight was 15 hours from Toronto to Taipei covering 7,506 miles. That was the first leg of our trip to Krabi. Between ground transportations and layovers in Taipei and Bangkok, that trip to Krabi took 55 hours. It was exhausting.
I flew on a brand-new Turkish Airlines A350-900 which started operating just 3 months prior. That was also my first time on the A350 and I was very excited about that. Right before that flight, I flew on an A330-300 named "Refahiye" which was Turkish Airlines' 300th aircraft with a special livery to commemorate.
3 new countries were added to my list: Canada, Taiwan, and Türkiye. Canada was for my work at Shopify, and the other two were during the long 10-hour layovers on the way to and from Thailand. That layover in Istanbul was also my first time in Europe.
By the end of the year I was so done with traveling and flying, which I never thought I would be. I was glad to not have any travels planned and happy to stay put for a while. 2025 is already looking to be quite uncertain for me when it comes to international travels. So I am sure I won't be as busy with traveling as I was last year.