A slightly late but factual recap of my 2025 flying, pulled from my Flighty year review. The year totals: 48 flights, 157,505 km (3.9x around Earth), and 225 hours 47 minutes in the air across 25 airports, 12 airlines, and 20 countries and territories. I break down the longest sectors by distance and time, then look at which aircraft types defined the year, from an A330-300 workhorse year to an unexpectedly high amount of 777-200ER time. I also include a few flights that stood out: Emirates First Class (DXB–CAI), Qantas A380 (JNB–SYD), British Airways’ fifth freedom hop (EZE–GIG), and Cathay’s HKG–JFK, my longest flight of 2025.

If you ask me to name one must have app for flying, I will not choose an airline app, I will choose Flighty. In this post I walk through how I use Flighty on real travel days for early delay and cancellation alerts, gate changes, connection checks, and tracking inbound aircraft, plus how it quietly builds a logbook of every flight I take. It has genuinely changed how relaxed I feel on travel days.

Super Formula just crowned Ayumu Iwasa as the 2025 champion, but what if the series used this momentum to become a truly pan Asian championship?

This post explores a fictional 2026 calendar built around Shanghai, Suzuka, Singapore and Southeast Asia, and imagines how Super Formula could grow into Asia’s reference single seater series for drivers, teams and brands.

Emirates and the Airbus A380 shaped an entire era of long haul travel. This post unpacks how the superjumbo became central to Emirates’ identity, why few airlines could make it work and what the future may look like once the A380 retires.

What started as a simple family trip turned into a fully-built round-the-world itinerary across five regions—South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. This post unpacks how I designed the entire route using miles, premium cabin deals, oneworld lounges, and a series of perfectly timed connections.

Ever wondered how much flying it actually takes to earn oneworld Sapphire or Emerald status? In this post, I compare how the same London–Sydney trip earns across eight oneworld airlines — from American to Qatar — to see which program gets you there fastest and what it really costs in 2026.

Every trip starts with a spark — a family plan, a purposeful getaway, or sometimes just the joy of flying. From hunting award seats to optimizing routes through favorite hubs, here’s how I plan my travels and flights for the perfect balance of cost, miles, and experience.

No single airline can reach every corner of the globe — that’s where airline alliances come in. From Star Alliance to oneworld and SkyTeam, here’s how these global networks connect travelers — and which one I find the most rewarding to fly with.

For one week each year, Singapore transforms from a global hub into a high-octane festival of speed, sound, and light. Here’s what it was like returning to the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix — the flights, the hotel hacks, and the energy that turns the city into a circuit.

A foundational explainer on airline miles, elite status, and the psychology behind loyalty programs — what they really mean, how you earn them, and whether all those perks are actually worth chasing.

From the pit wall to the boardroom: what motorsport taught me about time, teamwork, and decision-making — and why the stopwatch never lies.