How many flights did you take in the last 12 months?

I am very ashamed.

ha! don't worry i still think of you as a friend of the Earth

None

actions not words: that's a 0 from me.

None. I haven't been on a plane for 5 years.

I look forward to being guilt tripped, thanks in advance you guys.

I had cut my non-business flying down to zero for about 18 months and then got into a very long distance relationship and that has all gone to pot.

Fuck all this guilt trip shit

I think 7

Ed has she come over to see you much? are US air fares equivalent price or cheaper?

Only two, but I have at least six planned between now and Christmas.

don't hold mark c down, haters.

Zero, thanks, and I'm already feeling the "haven't significantly traveled recently" guilt I so cleverly installed at age 15.

you feel guilt about *not* travelling? wuht.

So do I!

My carbon footprint is way too small!!

wtf?

You know what they say about men with small carbon footprints.

Another vote for the top option.

4. To Barcelona and back then to Gdansk and back. Am shortly to do Gdansk and back again.

Went to Amsterdam last October. Going to LA in Nov though. Have to see the in-laws and thanksgiving is as good a time as any.

Oh totally. See, I read a lot of Beat shit at that age, the effects of which take forever to undo.

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She has come over more, but only because she has had more reasons than just me to be here. Fares are about the same.

the Beat writers worked passage on a steamer, i woulda thought?

Quite a few flights. And one of them included the epic Los Angeles-Auckland-Melbourne-Adelaide trek which means I have the carbon footprint of a small European country now.

I haver been on a plane.

Did I say it was rational?

Also, most of my travel was done back then in a 1987 Toyota Camry with 185K+ miles on it that I saved up for, which is totally the stolen Chevy of my generation.

All sorts of xpost

yes to not-travelling guilt. wasting our lives etc.

i can't get into that mindset. how is not travelling 'wasting a life'? it's sort of how the majority of the world's population live?

Same mindset as not aspiring to detached housing I think.

funnily enough i don't tend to compare my existence or life expectations to that of some poor dude in Darfur.

i am part of the problem i know.

Chicago and back, Boston and back, Venice and back.

5, i think. also 1 helicopter, bitches.

not just darfur, but, well, this country till not very long ago. i suppose there's an 'do it while you can' angle.

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i can't get into that mindset. how is not travelling 'wasting a life'?

More like, WTF am I doing hanging around here when I could be off somewhere else enjoying myself surely?

it's the same as successful/exciting career in aspirational terms imo

you dudes sound like jim callaghan.

2, but they're the only two in about 4 years

another wasted life

you dudes sound like jim callaghan

Finger on the pulse there

WTF am I doing hanging around here when I could be off somewhere else enjoying myself surely?

yeah i feel that but it's more to do with working, not being in britain. much of which is awes.

it's the same as successful/exciting career in aspirational terms imo

an exciting career is a good thing in itself. (i would imagine.) i'm not really disagreeing here, but would put having a good career way above getting the odd holiday. up to a point they go together.

don't get the Callaghan ref

not just 'the odd holiday' but life-changing adventures, 'finding yourself' and all that wank. you can have a good life without leaving your own country...i GUESS...but fuck that.

A gap year?

i want to take a sabbatical

but however would i cope without you guys

I hate all that "travelling" bullshit too, but holidays are teh smashing.

acrobat with the zing.

ha the most well travelled person i know is also a diehard tory

^^^DG otm

booooooring

I didn't realize that this thread was about PEEK OYL.

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I know about TO&L issues and I HAAAAAAATE changeovers. If I amend to count all up-downs as 'flights' I'm still only down for 10 planes to make 3 trips. Don't think my total will rise beyond that. Et toi?

Just two for me (out to Barca and back again).

as far as i can ascertain, all the flights were scheduled to go anyway, so no guilt attached

Yep, because even if the demand for flights fell to zero all scheduled flights would continue to run until the end of time.

Easyjet do have newer, slightly less-polluting planes than a lot of other airlines.

Also, budget flights tend to be a lot fuller than others, which you could look at as efficient. Not that all the passengers would have flown if there hadn't been a budget option.

I've come to loathe the "you have to travel" mindset. What makes traveling any better than, uh, staying at home for your entire life? If seeing the world/places doesn't appeal to you, that's perfectly fine. If you do like to travel, don't berate others for not sharing your views and travel.

I've gone to Japan twice this year. I can't imagine doing it again this year as I'll be having my second baby. I might go back next year MAYBE but I'm not sure yet. 2008 might be a flightless year, who knows, but I am hoping to travel somewhere (not Japan) in 2009, leaving the kids with the grandparents. I do miss traveling with my husband. :-(

Oh what I also wanted to ask: how do you count it? Do I just click 2 cause I've been to Japan twice or do I pick 4 cause I've been on four planes? Y'know, back 'n' forth... I'm dumb, I know. Traveling hasn't given me any extra BRANE material. :-)

I haven't been on a plane in 13 years. I don't plan to go on one ever again. It's more cowardice than ecology. I'll go by boat, they have life boats.

I haven't been able to afford to go overseas in years. When it comes to traveling around the US I prefer driving because it's just more fun.

(also I think they have lifeboats on planes, no?)

"water landing"

lol instant death

slides may be detached and used as rafts

I suppose I could go by Cessna.

I am totally detaching the slide and using it as a raft next time I'm on a long-haul flight.

omg do you guys know how much i now want to use a lifeboat to jump out of a plane? preferably the plane would deploy the inflat-a-slide while in midair when i do this so i can also slide down the slide, in the lifeboat.

I suppose I could go by Cessna

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Remember to watch for your bikini top slipping as you come down the slide!

I think I've probably taken about 8 short-haul flights this year and I've got a (return) long-haul one this Christmas. You've got to fly while there's still oil left!

(seriously though, I do get the train when I can now. Though someone wrote in to the paper to say that the train from Glasgow to London was had as large a carbon footprint as the plane. Who to believe??)

Anyway, short-haul flights aren't so bad cause they don't deposit the CO2 so high in the atmosphere, or something.

Jel - a jumbo jet is very likely safer than a boat and absolutely safer than a cessna

Plus Horizon offers comp beer and wine. xpost

Ah, traveling by car, so much more fun than a plane, especially if you're the passenger and detroit leaning. (hahah I'm sad bitch for referencing two songs in here.)

I'd be the like terrified kid in Final Destination though.

Yep, because even if the demand for flights fell to zero all scheduled flights would continue to run until the end of time

great spot! take a gold star. but don't take it more than a mile, in case your carbon footprint gets too big.

(seriously though, I do get the train when I can now. Though someone wrote in to the paper to say that the train from Glasgow to London was had as large a carbon footprint as the plane. Who to believe??)

This sort of depends on the type of plane and the type of train - I think the least polluting airliner has been calculated to produce less CO2 per passenger than a French-style highspeed train (travelling at top speed!) going from London to Edinburgh. However, carbon emissions from highspeed trains fall right off when they travel at slower speeds and most of the comparisons I've seen for typical electric trains vs. typical planes on domestic routes estimate that planes are something like 10 times more polluting. (Obv. this comparison is different in France where these trains actually operate at full speed because the rail network there is essentially nuclear powered).

I remember arriving in SF the week after 9/11. Very. Very. VERY weird as there was practically noone in the airport.

i'm at 14, with another six in the next six weeks

:(

I really really love flying though, no matter what reason. The designer clothing chains, glamorous cabin crew, and the smell of aviation fuel.

xpost why would you be bummed about it? cause you have to (for work related reasons)?

Are you in Scooch or something? (x-post)

nath: carbon footprint! plus a lot of it is work.

in the last twelve months: Sydney -> Brisbane and back

in twelve months before that: Adelaide -> Sydney

in next eight weeks: Sydney -> London (change in Bangkok) and back

Glasgow - Bristol and back (December)
Glasgow - Malaga and back (January)
Glasgow - Gatwick - Tampa - Gatwick - Glasgow (March, which I'm counting as four flights)
Glasgow - London City and back (April)
Glasgow - London City and back (June)

That's 12 so far, with another trip to Malaga planned in November. Fear my polluting skills!

and you smoke!!

I was about to click "one" thinking, yeah, March, but then I realized that I'd lost a year and I haven't flown since March of 2006.
But if this was about ferryboats Maria and Scott and I would PWN alla y'all.

4 trips every year for the past 8 years: home to hometown and back again in summer, repeat in winter. Plus holidays last year, 7.

Glasgow-Munich-Glasgow
Glasgow-London-Glasgow
Glasgow-Stockholm-Glasgow
Glasgow-London-Glasgow
Glasgow-Bergamo-Glasgow
Glasgow-Barcelona-Glasgow
Glasgow-Dubai-Malaysia-Singapore-Hong Kong-Glasgow
Glasgow-Toronto-Glasgow

So not *quite* in that top bracket :-/

I went to California and Seattle this summer on separate trips! Cross-continental twice, whoops.

You know I don't think I ever hear anyone in the US discussing "carbon footprints" other than Al Gore.

I sure do.

Fuck, I just remembered another Glasgow-London (I came back on the Caledonian Sleeper), but I'm still in the 13-20 bracket, just.

Hang on, that should be Glasgow-Schipol-Toronto-Schipol-Toronto. Adjust the results accordingly please, I've already cast my vote. I'm now going to kill myself.

you live in texas

xp

I do watch non-Texan television.

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1 is an odd number. Well, obviously it's an odd number, I mean it's a strange number of flights because you expect most flights to come in pairs (out and back). How did those people get home again?

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