Sam Chui having a keen interest for Boeing 747 has logged 1,067,888 miles so far on 747 flights and flown on every single commercial type of B747. He has flown a total of 279 times on the Boeing 747 across all models and variants across 37 operators in the world. His first flight on a Boeing 747 was in 1993 onboard United Airlines Flight 800 from Hong Kong to Tokyo Narita.[7] Chui has flown on 240 airlines and 180 aircraft types.