Crazy: I’ve Logged Over 10,000 Flight Miles On This Super Short Route

One of the fun things about logging all my flights is seeing what odd statistics jump out. A recent one that caught my eye after adding my most recent trip to OpenFlights is that I’ve now flown over 10,000 miles between my home airport of Arcata-Eureka and San Francisco.

That’s a lot of butt-in-seat miles on (mostly) CR2s, the awful tin-can-of-a-plane. We are now graced with a decent number of E175 SkyWest flights, so things are looking up. But this has still been a history of mostly CR2s.

How Many Flights Is This Milestone?

OpenFlights pegs the ACV-SFO route at 249 flight miles. Flying less than an hour is vastly preferred to the approximately 5-hour drive, but occasionally things go awry. Prices tend to be high, very high. So, unless work is paying, it’s rare that I book a cash ticket out of my home airport. Most often I find an award on United that includes this segment, which has actually has good availability historically.

What does 10,000 miles mean? It means I’ve flown the ACV-SFO hop a total of 42 times. This clocks in at a grand total of 10,458 flight miles. That’s a ton for this tiny hop, at least by my standards. I don’t fly routinely for work, maybe a half dozen times per year at most these days.

Conclusion

This milestone will pale in comparison to people who are real road warriors and routinely fly a short-haul as part of their regular travel. This is the only route for me, however, that is neither an intercontinental flight nor a transcontinental flight where I have over 10,000 miles.

Here’s to 10,000 more. I just hope the CR2s will disappear entirely.

What odd route(s) have you clocked an excessive number of miles flying?