


89 Things To Do As An Airline Employee Before You Quit By Kerwin McKenzie
Want to learn how to maximize your flight benefits? 89 Things To Do As An Airline Employee Before you QUIT is a step-by-step guide on making the most of your airline employee benefits. From flying around the world in a weekend, enjoying breakfast in Hong Kong or attending the four major Tennis Opens, this 358-page book provides detailed instructions–plus a few insider travel secrets–with the airline employee in mind.
Here’s what two airline employees had to say –
Great resource for the airline employee who has already done all of the “obvious” trips.
Handy market-specific travel tips, and un-obvious destination recommendations from a former employee who lives for the next trip – wherever that may be!
-ex-airline employee
Great Guide for active and retired airline employees especially those new in the industry. Kevin has done a great job compiling destinations and possible options on how to arrive to them. He has also given me new ideas for my future traveling. Great Guide to keep. I highly recommend it!
-Olga
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Here’s the table of contents to give you an idea:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Things to do before you depart
Chapter 2 – Travel Tips
Chapter 3 – The Things
- Visit an airplane graveyard
- Take a day trip to beautiful Oahu
- Visit somewhere different every weekend for a month
- Fly around the world in a weekend
- Fly around the Southern Hemisphere
- Fly around the world only on Airbus A380 operators
- Fly around the world on one airline brand (almost)
- Take a weekend trip to see the crystal-clear Caribbean beaches
- Take a weekend trip to Europe
- Austria
- Belgium
- France
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- Have breakfast or dinner overlooking Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong (check out the Peninsula or Sheraton hotels)
- Go have some really cheap and good Mexican food in Mexico
- Visit a few of the famous vineyards around the globe
- Visit Seoul, South Korea
- Marvel at some of the wonders of South America
- The European feel of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Colonia, Uruguay
- Iguacu Falls, Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay
- Lima, Peru (LIM)
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Cuzco, Peru
- Cuzco, Peru
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Visit Uruguay for a few hours
- Visit the Mitad del Mundo in Quito, Ecuador
- Have a bottle of Argentinean wine in Argentina
- Or a bottle of Chilean chardonnay in Chile; how cool is this?
- Visit the southernmost city in the world
- View the Sydney Harbour from high atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney
- Getting There From North America
- Getting There From Europe
- Getting There From Asia
- Getting There From The Middle East
- Be spontaneous
- Do you like horse racing and fashionable hats? Then check out the Triple Crown horse-racing events
- Kentucky Derby
- The Preakness Stakes
- Belmont Stakes
- If you are a tennis fan, watch the four major tennis opens; even if you are not, it is an excuse to visit these fine cities
- The Australian Tennis Open in Melbourne,
- Australia (MEL)
- The French Tennis Open at Roland Garros in Paris (CDG, ORY)
- Wimbledon in London (LCY, LGW, LHR, LTN, SEN, STN)
- The U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York (LGA, JFK, ISP, EWR, HPN)
- Visit Alaska
- Visit The People’s Republic of China
- Visit Greenland
- Visit Iceland
- Visit India
- Visit Japan
- Visit Thailand
- Hike to the inside center of the Great Pyramids of Giza
- Visit six of the seven continents, as it is a bit difficult to get to Antarctica
- Visit a lock
- Miraflores Locks, Panama
- Seattle
- Berlin mühlendamm schleuse Berlin
- Camden Locks, London
- Castle Lock Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Visit the Tasmanian devil in Tasmania, Australia
- Visit the Mexican pyramids
- Visit the Coliseum of Rome
- Visit a theme park
- Visit family and friends unexpectedly
- Visit a U.S. national monument or memorial that is in a city other than your own
- Watch a sports game played by your favorite team in another city, just because you can
- Visit a remote place
- Take the United Airlines Island Hopper
- Visit a city within one degree of the equator
- Snorkel or scuba the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
- Visit Petra, Jordan
- Visit all the U.S. Presidential Libraries
- Visit at least one of the world’s tallest structures
- Visit volcanoes
- Fly on the world’s longest flights
- Visit the Swedish Lapland
- Tour the headquarters of the major airplane manufacturers
- Have a drink at the Ice Bar
- Hike to the tops of the pyramids of Tikal in Guatemala
- Visit the 49th parallel between the U.S. and Canada
- Fly on the world’s shortest flight
- Attend a major airshow
- Spend a day watching planes land and take off in St. Maarten (SXM)
- Spend four hours in Las Vegas just for the heck of it
- See your favorite artist perform in a city other than your home city
- Take your parents on a special trip somewhere, unexpectedly
- Decide on a Friday morning where you are going that Friday after work and actually do it
- Go to a major sporting event
- Get bumped from a flight
- Fly an airline other than your own, often
- Take a trip with your co-workers
- Enjoy a beer festival or visit a brewery
- Anheiser-Busch Budweiser Brewery Experience
- Guinness Storehouse
- The Heineken Experience
- Go to at least one of the annual film festivals around the world
- Take your best friends and family on an “all air tickets paid” trip to an international destination
- Enter a country by air and exit by another means of transportation or vice versa
- Take a red-eye flight and go to work that same day
- Go to a city and party 24 hours, then return home
- Take a trip and do not stay in a hotel
- Do something distinctly different because you can as an airline employee
- Run a marathon or similar race in any city of your choice; especially Marathon, Greece
- Take a high-speed train
- Go see the taping of a TV show
- Go golfing in some of the world’s best golf courses
- Climb or visit the Seven Summits
- Mount Aconcagua in Argentina [South America]
- Mount Carstensz in Papua, Indonesia [Asia]
- Mount Denali in Alaska, U.S. [North America]
- Mount Elbrus in Russia [Europe]
- Mount Everest in Nepal [Asia]
- Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya [Africa]
- Mount Vinson in Antarctica
- Ride a camel
- Take a day trip to a North American City
- Chicago [Midway (MDW), O’Hare (ORD)]
- New York City [Islip McArthur (ISP), New York-JFK, LaGuardia (LGA), Newark-Liberty (EWR), White Plains (HPN)]
- Portland, Oregon (PDX)
- San Francisco [Oakland (OAK), San Francisco (SFO), San Jose (SJO)]
- Seattle (SEA)
- Visit upwards of three countries all during the same day
- Be in two continents in less than 10 minutes
- Go shopping in a foreign country
- Take a swamp boat tour in Louisiana
- Go to the rodeo
- Go see a theatre production in a foreign country or city, then return to your domicile
- Go skiing somewhere cool
- Fly to the Memphis airport (MEM) just to get barbecue
- Spend some time at an aviation museum
- Berlin, Germany (TXL, SXF)
- Edinburgh, Scotland (EDI)
- Houston, Texas (HOU, IAH)
- London, England (LCY, LGW, LHR, LTN, SEN, STN)
- New York, New York (EWR, HPN, ISP, JFK, LGA)
- Paris, France (BVA, CDG, ORY)
- Portland, Oregon (PDX)
- San Diego, California (SAN)
- Seattle, Washington (SEA)
- Washington, D.C. Area (BWI, DCA, IAD)
- See how many airports you can land at or take off from for one 24-hour period
- See how many airports you can land at or take off from for one 24-hour period
- Visit all the countries in any one continent
- Visit every country in the world
- Visit all the commercial airports in the world or at least in your immediate region, say your own country, state, etc.
- Fly all the different commercial aircraft types in existence
- Fly all the different airlines in the world.
Comments 2
KERWIN, HAVE YOU MAILED OUT THE ORDERED BOOKS YET? JIM
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your comments. All paperback orders are done by Amazon. The email you received should have a delivery date in it. Let me know please.
Thanks for your patronage.
Kerwin.