Boy, are my arms tired.

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Well, this has been a quiet travel year!

Well, quiet on the work travel front at least.  This year's extracurricular airtime includes Tokyo, Hawaii, Boston and New York City. Between work and leisure, I visited nine provinces - surprisingly, not PEI!  It totaled 53361 flight miles, and 56 flights.

As you can see from above, 2008 was different - more flying by far, but actually a much larger proportion was domestic. We went to Paris, Hawaii, and NYC, but work had me on both coasts multiple times, plus even a quick jaunt to Florida (1 day). What's weird is that my total miles in 2008 were *less* than the status miles earned, only 75703 flight miles over 80 flights. (Aeroplan gives a minimum of 500 per flight, regardless of length)

On tap for 2010? So far nothing for work at all, and a trip to Paris at the end of March. Something will have to change or that lovely "Elite" status will disappear. And oh god it's not disappearing without a fight.

Uh-oh. 15-20% of Arctic warming may be caused by aircraft vapour trails, says one study*. Time to find a new item for our list, because we're not giving up flights anytime soon...

1. No car, live in central urban area, transit for all commuting when transit possible
2. Compost, recycle, and reuse (hoard? packrat?) as much as possible
3. Turn off and unplug almost all electronics when not in use (including half of home theatre), and measure phantom load to reduce or eliminate it
4.  Replaced windows, doors, added insulation, lowered furnace temperature
5. ?

* Yeah, yeah, just one study.

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

No excuses. *You* are destroying this planet.

It's all you. No amount of turning off DVD players will make a difference. :p

HNY BTW. :)

[steveuk.livejournal.com]

God, I fell your pain! Thankfully my flight back to London in a few weeks will renew my Gold Star Alliance status until September 2011 but I'm already trying to figure out how I will extend that further!!!

Happy New Year! All the best for 2010!