My name is Scott Leazenby, and I am a full-time airline reviewer. I have flown over 105 airlines so far, consisting of 75 aircraft types to and from 122 airports all over the world. Total miles flown? Just a smidge over 1.5 million. And counting!
Although I started SANspotter.com back in 2011, I didn’t write my first airline review until 2013. It was weirdly more fun and satisfying than I thought it was going to be.
My first airline review video (which was actually just a series a video clips set to techno music lol) was published to YouTube in 2015.
How it all began
I didn’t really discover my calling as a traveler (with an obsession for a commercial aviation) until college in the mid 1990’s. Having been locked in my dorm room for several years slaving away on a depressingly large pile of projects, I recall staring out my window overlooking the dull gray winter Detroit skies dreaming of palm trees, warm breezes, and Boeing 747’s.
I was just a poor college student with too much work to do, so unfortunately, I wasn’t able to act on those dreams until after graduation.
My very first solo adventure after being freed from the confines of college in the spring of 1996 was a weekend 700 mile road trip by car. I had never done anything so free and spontaneous like that before, and I was immediately hooked on the thrill of setting off to explore new places.
It wasn’t long after that that I began looking farther and farther away on the map. I began to do these adventures by air, and a frequent flyer was born.
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