PDXPremier

Just out of curiosity, what % of your AS elite status is earned through leisure travel and mileage runs?? Without leisure travel and mileage runs, what elite level (if any) would you be at?

I'll start us off....my wife and I earn 100% of our MVP (and soon to be MVPG) status through leisure travel and mileage runs. With that said, unless we're going to someplace like, say, DTW , our mileage runs typically turn into leisure trips since we usually spend at least one night.

ANC

some years no mileage runs, at most maybe 0-5% is actual mileage runs in any given year. Done anc/fai a couple times before for some segments and some ANC/SEA before when they used to run good sales but other than that not really. I will however once in a while fly a paid F segment here and there on a route Im already flying on OR will add a segment or connection where one isnt really needed and could alternatively fly the route on a nonstop. I prefer that much more over doing a quick turn run just for miles. Id say most times my leisure travel is less than 25% although theres been times that its probably been over 50% of it.

Overheard a guy at RDU today talking to US/AA CSA about how he was flying RDU-DCA-ORD today rather than RDU-ORD because he had to make sure to get his 100 segments in by the end of the year

Dieuwer

10% biz travel, 90% leisure, 0% mile run.

jona970318

I don't travel for business(too young), as you may see from the QF title 'SFSC'- self-funded status chaser. So... I guess 100%? I did MR a ton this year, which will probably consist of 50% of my AS status

beckoa

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Straight leisure. Wish work picked up a trip or two.

ctporter

For me it is about 95% work and just barely 5% leisure. Even less leisure when I use miles for fun and don't earn status miles for those trips

missamo80

According to an export of all my activity for the year, 40,414 (75%) of my miles were for work and 13,209 (25%) were for leisure. This doesn't include a likely two additional cross-country trips for work and one more leisure trip before the end of the year.

Neil

eponymous_coward

100% leisure travel/not for work.

Finkface

100% leisure for me as well.

slopeboy40

These DTW turns are the first pure mileage runs that I have ever done, where I just turn right around, get back on the plane and come home. I have in the past been known to route myself on a vacation to get additional miles, such as SEA-MCO via SAN, but only if the fare was worth it.

I never know how to answer the "business vs leisure" travel question as the bulk of my mileage comes from traveling to/from work but it is all on my dime. So technically it's business I guess, but since I am paying does that make it leisure?

PDXPremier

Unless you are self-employed and running your own business, the way I distinguish it is based on whether someone else pays (business) or you pay (leisure/mileage run).

slopeboy40

In that case it's 90% leisure, 10% MR.

CDKing

I've been on 1 work trip in the last 10 years

ANC

I think you need another catergory then.... "commuting" The business doesnt pay for it and you are traveling on your days off. But you are also not flying for fun or leisure but going to work in a plane instead of a car. I dont know of anyone who considers driving their car to work, leisure travel

Most travel to the arctic slope is for work/business and not leisure but its on your own time and dime to get to and from work if you are a ground pounder or lower level management. 2 weeks on 1 week off or 3 on 1 off can be a bit misleading. You burn up at least 2 of your days off flying to and from

PDXPremier

I think what I was really getting at was how many of us "self-fund" our own elite status...so commuting may not be that "leisurely", but one of the benefits of that chosen job is that the pay is so high that you can afford to commute by flying which is of course another form of self-funded travel.