Post Your Segments/miles Ytd Here:

As Of 5/7/06

Segments 116
Miles 92,559

Segments: 0
Miles: 0

Segments: 0
Miles: 0

I may be taking some America West flights in June, so I'll kick that up a little, since it looks like I can't earn UA miles on AW flights yet.

I am no where close.......

45 segments
37,116 miles....


I think I should get Platinum this year but not CP.....

This is my first year traveling a lot so I am still just Silver right now...

Dagwood

As of 5/8/06:

Segments: 31
EQMs: 42,550

With the Euro trip this fall, I'm on pace for CP. We'll see...

Wasn't the old P o'P award for shortest average segment? Or am I making that up?

In any event... note the drain on the balance and the relatively short haul flying (mostly PHL-NC, and a couple of MIA turns when AA was full).

Miles Posted as of: April 13, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 35,728
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 5,979
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 9
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Can't match the OP for miles flown this year....

Miles Posted as of: May 5, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 171,640 *** Just cashed in 90k for family vacation
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 40,878
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 22
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

But with LGW, DFW and DEN coming over the next 2 1/2 weeks, my numbers should be increasing significantly....

Segments: 43

Miles: 24094

Unfortunately, mostly RJ short flights, GSO > LGA

Miles Posted as of: April 21, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 214,682
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 24,967
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 20
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

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Although if I ever get my flights from EWR/JFK to PHX on HP posted (I've given up) you can bump this nonsense up by 4 segs and sevreal thousand miles.

In the next two weeks I'm confirmed down and back to MCO twice (UGH) and over to FRA and back twice (Das UGHen) between now and June plus a number of little 500 milers.

I should hit Platinum no problem before I "pull out" and hit Silver on someone else for a buffer. I'm anti-AA because of their little soda selling experiment, so it's lookin' like CO. -sigh, EWR- (Although I'm anti-US in principle because of this f'ed up first-up before preferreds thing.)

And for all you laughing at my mileage balance, that's after 2 business tickets to HKT last summer on TG (180,000 mile drain), so I'm doing the best I can. I'm really hoping someone in the * alliance announces service to SEZ in the near future.

Miles Posted as of: February 22, 2006
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 43,192
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 20
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Year to Date Preferred Miles: 25,113
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 15
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member
Dividend Miles Balance: 280,138

I have given up on US DM program two months ago. My miles have been to going to UA MP when I got a status match to Premier Exec. So I'll stay GP this year and be a SP next year. I have planned trips to qualify for Premier Exec for next year and hopefully even 1K when UA has some promotion at the end of the year.

6 segments
3000 miles.

I'll be lucky if I make Silver at this rate. However, things will most likely pick up in July for me to make Gold.

Now on AA.......

November = LAX-SNN x 4 + SFO-LHR x 2
December = LAX-SNN x 2

:D

Miles: 0
Segments: 0

Segments: 9
Miles: 12K

Most likely done for the year.

Year to Date Preferred Miles: 4,296
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 5

Planning to make Silver with:
SFO-GSO 3x
SFO-BOS

and maybe another SFO-LAS

Me too...

Miles: 0
Segments: 0

Haven't had to fly... worse, can't find flights to burn miles on when I need them.

Miles Posted as of: April 30, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 193,414
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 9,806
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 10
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Mr. BWIFlyer
Miles Posted as of: April 30, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 149,909
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 11,965
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 8
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

We'd fly US more if there were any preferred mileage bonuses (makes me feel like I'm shopping a great sale & I make up reasons to fly as much as possible). Taking all of the other factors into consideration, I need a powerful incentive to keep booking travel on US. So far, I'm not seeing any indication that our revenue is wanted. Without bonuses to entice us, I think even silver may be out of reach now that there's not a soft landing.

YTD Preferred Miles: 55,488
YTD Preferred Segments: 76
Actual Miles for the year: 120,277
Miles Balance: 260,486
Chairman's

I've been doing at least 4 segments a week this year -- which is probably 50% more than last year.

And of all of my flights, only three have been a non-RJ or non-Dash8!!

that's PoP material there.

i'm at 40 segs or so.

2005 Miles - 101,654
2005 Segments - 48

YTD Miles - 1,927
YTD Segments - 4

Last year this time I was around 60,000 miles.

Miles Posted as of: May 6, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 115,615
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 6,111
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 10
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member


Have some flights coming up on US over the next few months, but hoping to burn some miles to get them...however, I have surprisingly been stymied by low fares on those routes (cheaper than the the $0.01/mile I value my DM at--e.g. $250 for the 25k award).

So far this year, 8 RJ flights, a 737, and a 757, averaging 611 miles per segment. Apparently haven't gotten credit for two other segments on UA...or any online booking bonuses (not that they are preferred miles...)

Flying CLT-PHX next month. Seriously thinking of taking DL to make a statement. Not that anyone would notice...or care.

Dividend Miles Balance: 65,553
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 6,570
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 8
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Doug can say good-bye to this CP....already re-qual for Plat on AA and on the way to EXP!

I'm noticing that UA segs take forever to post. Five or six days, at least.

Miles Posted as of: May 8, 2006
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 59,327
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 27
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Year to Date Preferred Miles: 14,256
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 4

May not make Gold again this year, so my money (admittedly not as much as most of you!) may go anywhere when the new DM rules and bonus roll out. Not a bad miles to segment ratio though, eh?

Miles Posted as of: May 5, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: X,XXX,XXX
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 25,400
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 42
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

That's got to be in the running for the PoP

Year to Date Preferred Miles: 34,442
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 35
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member


Looks like I'm on pace for the ALL NEW Platinum. Had 73,000 last year. Wonder if they will offer me a challenge so I can get that extra bonus?

Miles Posted as of: May 7, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 659,290
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 50,691
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 19
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Miles Posted as of: May 4, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 374,913
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 24,974
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 30
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Year to date miles: 65,188
Year to date segments: 23

Posted as of May 7.

As you can see, lots of long-haul (mostly European) flights.

Miles Posted as of: April 27, 2006
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 22,775
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 44
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Miles Posted as of: April 26, 2006
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 20,776
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 14
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

HP:
FlightFund Balance: 100,500
Earned Toward Future Elite Status: 1500 miles and 3 segments

US:
Dividend Miles Balance: 87,520
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 67,734
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 51
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

I have minimum 11,604 EQM pending between now and May 19. I have no additional HP/US flights planned until at least May 28 (I will be on CO that week). I will earn Platinum on May 14 and CP soon.

Miles Posted as of: May 7, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 127,125
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 11,941
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 17

Unless there's another year o' promotions, it's looking like Silver for me if I'm lucky. But then, my CP is utterly faux to begin with. :)

I'm about to get a $100 voucher in the mail, and can't decide whether to use it make a nice high-miles European jaunt more affordable, or use it to buy some wacked-out Segment Run.

YTD Miles - 1,927
YTD Segments - 4


How is this possible? What partner did you fly that didn't credit you at least 500 per segment?

Miles Posted as of: April 27, 2006
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 22,775
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 44
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member


Ouch! That's 517 EQMs per segment. I assume almost all East Coast short hops?

Miles Posted as of: May 6, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 203,175
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 15,250
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 7
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

That's an avg of 2178 mi/seg. Not too bad.

As of May 4, 2006
Year to date miles: 29375
Year to date segments: 54

I do have an ATL-PHX-SLC coming up to boost the miles.

Segments: 10
Miles: 5,504

YTD Preferred Miles: 76,612
YTD Preferred Segments: 34
Current level: Gold Preferred Member

Round trip PHL > LAX each week!

On US
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 38,344
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 41
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

On CO
OnePass Elite Level: Platinum
2006 Elite Mileage: 41,547
2006 Elite Points: 45

YTD: 5500 Miles
YTD: 11 segments
All DCA-LGA shuttle

Quick note re: PoP competition this year: No bonus preferred miles for F or full-fare Y tix available to the PoP competitors, thus skewing down total miles and miles/segment.

(Of course, the lack of rollover will also constrain the status hopes of many a current CP...) ;)

I also move that those relying heavily on shuttle flights not be eligible for the top prize...free booze and good service on a mainline a/c doesn't exactly compare to the many competitors jetting about in CRJs, Embraers, and Dash 8's, hoping to be crowned the new PoP... :D

14,511 miles
18 segments
Status = Silver (and staying silver unless I route JAX-CLT-PHL-CLT-JAX instead of JAX-PHL-JAX and make gold on segments)

Miles Posted as of: May 7, 2006
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 58,968
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 31
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

26 segments
26,420 miles

I have also been on Song, AirTran, AA, Jet Blue this year. I made it to silver for next year. I am not sure if I will try for more with US this year.

that's PoP material there.
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What is PoP?

I'm at:

102 segments
77608 miles

With 18 segments till the end of may!

What is PoP?

I'm at:

102 segments
77608 miles

With 18 segments till the end of may!

I think you might be the picture in the dictionary. ;)

31 segments - 35,166 miles

12 more segments in the next 30 days

Year to Date Preferred Miles: 29,839
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 40
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Missing a SFO - CLT flight from earlier this week. Another run to SFO next week as well as ATL from CLT. Need to add some flights out of TRI to get the segments past 100 this year.

Just a few so far this year. My heavy travel doesn't pick up until September where I usually run about 70 segments from Oct-Dec.

Year to Date Preferred Miles: 43,957
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 24
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

I'm off to a slower than usual start as I have been flying UA much more frequently this year. I've got 8 segments in the next two weeks, both of which are cx countries. With anticipated travel, and the credit card preferred bonus, I should make Chairman's this year with just over 100,000 preferred miles.


Miles Posted as of: May 12, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 378,098
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 44,245
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 37
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

Dividend Miles Balance: 850,367
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 27,647
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 49
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member


Hard to believe I could travel 49 segments and have earned just enough miles for a first class ticket.

Looks like I am not going to make Chairman's Preferred this year. I have been one for the past 7 years. Looks like I am one of the guys they want to keep out of the top tier.

To be honest, being Chairman's Preferred isn't much of a deal for me anymore. Of the 49 segments, 7 were on planes that had a first class section. I upgraded 3 out of 7 times.

My best bet is to chase down the best ticket deal now.

last year
Ending Dividend Miles Balance: 408,403
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 74,516
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 106
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

this YTD
Miles Posted as of: April 25, 2006
Dividend Miles Balance: 511,716
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 28,217
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 26
Membership Level: Chairman's Preferred Member

with STX next week and SFO in 3

Bump!

As of today:
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 57,010
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 44
Membership Level: Platinum Preferred Member

1,295 miles per segment.

Segments: 16
EQM: 17289

UA has about double that (both EQM and segs). When I get back to 80k in the account (drained it to nothing last year), I'm done with US. That might just get me to silver, might not. My biggest mistake was giving tempe any kind of chance--that 17k might keep me from moving up further on UA for next year.

In previous PoP competitions, I was averaging like 1800 miles/segment. This year has been skewed by a 500 mile hop (in reality less) into my nearest hub (CLT) to go anywhere.... And US gets very little of my longhaul business anymore.

For that matter, US is not getting my shorthaul business. As PersonalCareChemist alludes to, I rarely see a plane with first class seating anymore. On UA, I enjoy ExPlus. Which would I choose? Hmm.....

Balance 473,387
Preferred Status Chairman
Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 49371 miles and 75 segments

Balance 184,980
Preferred Status Chairman
Thanks to Last Years Promo, but doing it the real way this time...
Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 44917 miles and 28 segments

1604 per segment... and trying to avoid the RJ's to Buffalo! ^

58 segments
32,019 Preferred miles
Future segments booked: 18

Miles Posted as of today:
Dividend Miles Balance: 148,018 *** Just cashed in 180k for 2x Business Asia
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 27,831
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 30
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

Mrs. Pieper:
Dividend Miles Balance: 189,917
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 27,831
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 30
Membership Level: Gold Preferred Member

11 segments booked before mid August, and another 16 in the pipeline.

Trip with Skyteam to Europe next month then 13,5k qualifying for CO this year

For me it looks like...

Current status: Gold
Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 69365 miles and 47 segments
Right at 1476 a segment (that hop from GSO to CLT is killing me :))

I have approx. 18000 additional miles and 8 segments of additional travel booked and another anticipated 40k of travel beyond that before the end of the year.

CP here I come....

Jammer

21 Preferred Segments
10500 Preferred Miles

Earned Toward Future Preferred Status YTD: 117302 miles and 52 segments
Preferred Status: Chairman

Balance 820 (a personal low)
Preferred Status Platinum
Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 12700 miles and 11 segments = 1154 mi/seg

contrast to AAnother Carrier:
Preferred Miles: 61,613
Segs: 42 = 1466 mi/seg
# Booked Miles by 12/31: 44,000
# of Full-Fare Coach tix purchased to US destinations on AAnother Carrier: 8 and counting.

98776 miles and 57 segments

I'm doing my CP flight tomorrow night and
I'm currently owed approximately 15K miles that I've sent to the DM service center which I fear I'll never see...

I'm probably up there with the prince of pain taking double and triple connections every week to increase segments. It's ridiculous, but a new Nintendo DS Lite helps. Why not get status on a plane vs being at home on the sofa. Of course, if one of those planes goes down and leaves me a corpse, I'll have made the wrong choice as if my sofa's leg breaks I'll go down about an inch and probably just scratch my 'nads and continue on :eek: :D

year to date preferred miles:
year to date preferred segments:
status: none

future flight SEA-CPH-MAN, MAN-CPH-SEA 12,000 miles/4 segments?

hope to make silver :D

Some of you made me feel good!

Current Balance 7,206
Preferred Status
Earned Toward
Future Preferred Status 5,706 miles and 6
segments

I'm hoping to make Silver. Gonna need a few MRs late in the year...

Why not get status on a plane vs being at home on the sofa. Of course, if one of those planes goes down and leaves me a corpse, I'll have made the wrong choice as if my sofa's leg breaks I'll go down about an inch and probably just scratch my 'nads and continue on :eek: :D

Hahahahaha! We think a lot alike. :D

As of today:
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 53,136
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 24
Membership Level: Chairman Preferred Member

2,214 miles per segment

miles in account 970,384
YTD Qual Miles: 40,650
YTD Segments: 68
current status: Chairmans

YTD EQM: 30,943
YTD Segs: 40
That's 774 miles/segment. After 18 segments I had 9,000 miles--i.e. all 500 mile segments--then I did the unthinkable: I flew BOS-CLT, for 727 miles. My colleagues & I were shocked I got assigned a trip that far away :).

Well, I've done it - Platinum Preferred through February, 2008. I don't have much of any business travel left, though - so CP is out of reach unless I do a couple banzai mileage runs to FRA and that's probably not going to happen. Still, not bad. :)

YTD EQMs: 78,393
YTD segments: 63
1,244 miles per segment

Well, I've done it - Platinum Preferred through February, 2008. I don't have much of any business travel left, though - so CP is out of reach unless I do a couple banzai mileage runs to FRA and that's probably not going to happen. Still, not bad. :)

YTD EQMs: 78,393
YTD segments: 63
1,244 miles per segment



There's always Oktoberfest in MUC!

~14,000 miles r/t, plus maybe one of those lovely STX F fares or a HNL/OGG/ITO/LIH run. One TA and one long domestic and you're there...

Balance 127,725
Preferred Status Gold
Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 43903 miles and 37 segments

I wish I could get status by $$ spent. I buy a ~$1000 ticket almost every week (EWR-TRI). But it only nets me 2000 EQM round trip.

I've got 2 (maybe 3 or 4) west coast trips and 1 to the carribean plus many more trips to TRI and a couple to BOS and PIT planned before year's end. I'm hoping for platinum - I think I should make it.

YTD EQM: 62335
YTD Segments: 49
1272 miles per segment

I hope to make Chairmans this year (Booked flights take me up to 70K through end of Aug) then 10K for CC purchases at 25K then 13K for Sept and i'm sure i'll hit 7K more through the end of the year to keep my status at CP.

Lance

My miles to-date are 38,447
Segments to-date are 61
Currently Chairman...trying to earn at least Platinum this year. Since US 'upped' the # of segements to 120 for Chairman, I don't think I'll make it.
However, the last two years, around September, US announced that if you could make 18 segments before December they would upgrade you to the next preferred level. Let's hope they do it again this year. Not sure if the new management will run that special again....

Posted as of 8/22...

YTD segments: 67
YTD EQM: 73,941

Miles balance: 183,784

50 Segments as of 9/22/06...
35K Miles

Booked 29 segments for rest of the year...Will make Plat :)

47979 miles and 73 segments

After tomorrow:

53091 miles
28 Segments

"Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 140789 miles and 63 segments"

Am I in the lead? :) I add 4802 preferred miles and 2 segments each week with my PHL>LAX>PHL route.

"Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 140789 miles and 63 segments"

Am I in the lead? :) I add 4802 preferred miles and 2 segments each week with my PHL>LAX>PHL route.

What the heck ;)

As of today

44179 miles
54 segs

Status as of: 24 August 2006
Qualifying Miles:30253
Qualifying Segments: 44
2005/6 Status: DM Silver

My goal is to get to Gold...I have a retun flight to RNO on sunday...at least 2 more round trips to Las Vegas....trips to COS, FLL, AUS, & STL in the future.

Not to shabby for a traveler that only travels 12 days per month

Total Miles: 359,635
YTD Qualifying miles: 77517
YTD Qualifying segments: 113
Status: Chairman's Preferred

I haven't flown for two weeks in a row, which is a new record over the past 3 years. It's nice being at home! Still only had 3 non-RJ/non-Dash8 flights.

After my flights yesterday I will be at:

YTD Qualifying Miles: 105376
YTD Qualifying Segments: 36

(Avg. segment of 2927)

I definitely will not be the prince of pain! The CP I was sitting next to yesterday PHX-PHL has already made 50 RTs SNA-PHL via LAS or PHX this year! He is over 200K as of the end of August! And I was feeling good about already requalifying and having another 30K booked through the end of September.

Dividend Miles Balance: 264,033 - just burned 320K for family trip to FRA in May07
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 58773
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 51
Membership Level: Chairmans

will have to pick up the pace to keep the Chairmans

Total Miles: 75,679 (just burned for 2 envoy to CDG-BCN-FRA)
YTD Qualifying miles: 61,320
YTD Qualifying segments: 93
Status: Chairman's Preferred

I've counted, and based on expected upcoming trips I'll have 115 segments by mid October. Nevertheless, I am a little worried, not all of those are carved in stone... this 120 segments business is the pits!

Total Miles: 98,127
Miles: 40563
Segments: 58
Status: CP

I may have been able to get Platinum by the end of year (CP was doubtful), but I have thrown in the towel and decided to start flying Southwest, as most of my flights are less than 500 miles. The rewards just seem to add up much quicker this way. Although I will fly at least 2 more segments on US to solidify gold.

On a sidenote...I took a $450 RT fare from PHL to HNL on ATA (now Southwest partner) over a $720 fare on US for Nov. Giving up potential first class and the double miles for CP on US, definitely a tough decision.

Dividend Miles Balance: 179,214
Year to Date Preferred Miles: 53,389
Year to Date Preferred Segments: 37
Miles Per Segment: 1,443
(Avoiding the RJ, but they caught onto the BOS-BUF via PHL in F thing) :rolleyes:
Membership Level: Chairmans

12600 (12 segments) currently booked
10K preferred MC bonus within a month..
Platinum guaranteed... CP on the horizon.. anyone for FCO?

Dividend Miles Balance: 386,241
YTD Segments: 36
YTD Miles: 22,348

Flying mostly to the Northeast from GSO with connections in CLT has killed my average segment/miles ratio but with 22 segments in the next 6 weeks will easily qualify for Gold after spending this year as a lowly Silver :p

YTD EQMs: 64,184
Segments: 52
DM Current balance: 286,819

With the business travel for the remainder of the year going as much as it has Jan-Aug, plus a planned trip to vegas, I'll make CP this year.

Balance 224,469
Preferred Status Chairman
Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 83146 miles and 49 segments

Upcoming travel:
4K BOS-SJU this weekend
10K BOS-TXL on UA/LH for turkey day
6K BOS-SFO for work
1K BOS-BUF for Santa Day

*I did get 1900 miles via Everything Counts... before I opted to fly to SJU via the companion flys free promo.... they were nice flowers though!

I've never had so many miles before... its kind of silly since I travel for fun 85% of the time... best advice on how to blow these miles... I got a honeymoon coming up!

OK....Here are my stats as of today:

Segments: 96
Miles: 67,904

For the remainder of the year, I know I will be doing an additional 22 segments which puts me only 2 from Chairmans. I am gonna wait and see what additional travel is required of me, but it looks as though I may be doing a short run to get two more segements.
A lot of my travel is usually last minute but I actually have a fairly well solidified schedule the next couple of months. The second half of December gets trickier....

Dividend Miles Balance: 29,763
YTD Segments: 19
YTD Miles: 14,332

Next flights:
8K SLC-PHX-PHL-SDQ-PHL-LAS-SLC next week
4K SLC-PHX-ATL-LAS-SLC for thanksgiving
8K SLC-LAS-PHL-SDQ-PHL-LAS-SLC Christmas

US Airways flights were way expensive this year so AA was the best option everytime I flew to the east coast.

10K BOS-TXL on UA/LH for turkey dayMake sure you are flying in the proper class to get mileage credit on LH. I booked one of their "economy" fares FRA-TXL, and didn't get any mileage back in May. :(

To continue on this thread:
Total US DM mileage balance: 207,866
2006 Preferred Miles: 34,532
2006 Preferred Segs: 21

Four more segments booked for the rest of the year (at least for now):
PHL-IAH
IAH-CLT
CLT-FLL
FLL-PHL
Total miles for these segs: 3862

No pain for me. Will remain silver for 2007.

Wasn't Prince of Pain originally defined as closest to 500 miles/segment. I'm at 22,104 and 41 segments - 539 mi/segment. And lots of LGA-PIT 500's to go. Quite a jump from the (bonus-enhanced) 5,516 mi/segement of 2002(?).

After CP every year that it has existed, and Preferred Plus before that, it's down to Gold for me. I've moved US from a preferred airline to another here-to-there commodity provider for me.

YTD Segments: 74
YTD Miles: 82,905 (includes 10k from the CC)
Dividend Miles Balance: 320,107
Status: CP

I'll probably squeak by the 100k threshhold by the end of the year.

Wasn't Prince of Pain originally defined as closest to 500 miles/segment. I'm at 22,104 and 41 segments - 539 mi/segment. And lots of LGA-PIT 500's to go. Quite a jump from the (bonus-enhanced) 5,516 mi/segement of 2002(?).

After CP every year that it has existed, and Preferred Plus before that, it's down to Gold for me. I've moved US from a preferred airline to another here-to-there commodity provider for me.

As a former Prince or at least pretender, CPRich has it right, it was the award for those of us stuck on Dash 8s and RJ with the most segments and fewest miles.

Right now, I have 0 miles and 0 segments but that will be broken this weekend when I fly on US (HP metal) to SMF because it was the latest flight I could get because I want to see my son's soccer game this Sunday. Currently Platinum and looking for a way to use the miles in between all the soccer.

Wasn't Prince of Pain originally defined as closest to 500 miles/segment. I'm at 22,104 and 41 segments - 539 mi/segment. And lots of LGA-PIT 500's to go. Quite a jump from the (bonus-enhanced) 5,516 mi/segement of 2002(?).

After CP every year that it has existed, and Preferred Plus before that, it's down to Gold for me. I've moved US from a preferred airline to another here-to-there commodity provider for me.

If thats the case....
119 segments and 76613 miles...thats about 643 miles/segment. Which is pretty odd considering 95% of my segs have been 500 milers...i guess it was that those trips to CDG and SFO

Wasn't Prince of Pain originally defined as closest to 500 miles/segment. I'm at 22,104 and 41 segments - 539 mi/segment. And lots of LGA-PIT 500's to go. Quite a jump from the (bonus-enhanced) 5,516 mi/segement of 2002(?).

Wasn't aware of that as the definition, but I'm on the newbie side.
Making CP on RJ's should be enough to have one committed, let alone being called the Prince of Pain.... But at 539 mi/segment, I would certainly defer to you and others that have suffered... heck I hate the puddle jumps BUF-BOS and those are on ERJ... though I remember the days of the DASH...

29 segments and 16924 miles. I actually got a 900 miler back in January, so that bumped my average up :D

Average so far this year......507.2 miles per segment.

I am at 556 per seg. about 50% RJ/Dash :rolleyes:

Currently at 56.5k, estimated end of year at 75.5k based on current plans. Expected average segment is about 1180, and average about 5.5 cpeqm. (I generally buy cheap and well in advance since my travel is about 2/3 on my nickel and 1/3 stretching government funds as far as possible.)

I'm sitting on ~560 miles/seg this year over segments in the high 40s. Almost all since 9/1. About $.25/preferred mile YTD. I'm pretty much banking on the significant revenue and flying in the last third of the year to get a soft landing to plat. If not, I'll just trial elite my way back in a week or so.

As a side note, I'm using a spreadsheet I built to track all of this and predict status. Its quite similar to one I did for AAdvantage... if you search over there you'll find it on the same page as the AA one. I don't host the file, so if someone here has space, I'd be happy to share.

I too got a late start this year; didn't start flying until July (so January-June was very, very nice let me tell you). I've done a few transcons this year, which inflates my usual short haul segment mileage, and disqualifies me for the Princess of Pain category:

52012 miles and 65 segments, averaging ~ 800 miles/segment.

However, it would be accurate to claim that I am in the running for Princess of Pique. I have not--how shall we say it?--enjoyed the merger pains very much.

Realistically, it looks like the pace will stay the same through December, and I shall be a Platinum Princess next year.

Kathryn

Realistically, it looks like the pace will stay the same through December, and I shall be a Platinum Princess next year.Kathryn

For what it's worth, I'll nominate you for the angel of alliteration. :)

I've just topped out my last planned flights for 2006:

84,520 EQM
71 EQS
1,190 miles per segment

I don't think I can hit CP... 16k miles is just too much to MR :(

I may not be the Prince, but it's been pretty painful. Here's my 120 segments for 2006: http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=LAX-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ASYR-BOS%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0APHL-BOS%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ACLT-DEN%0D%0ASYR-CLT%0D%0ACLT-DCA%0D%0ADEN-CLT%0D%0ADCA-SYR%0D%0ASYR-BOS%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ALGA-SYR%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ACLT-DEN%0D%0ASYR-CLT%0D%0ADEN-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0APHL-BOS%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-LGA%0D%0ALGA-SYR%0D%0ADCA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-DCA%0D%0ABOS-DCA%0D%0ADCA-SYR%0D%0APHL-IND%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0AIND-PIT%0D%0APIT-SYR%0D%0APHL-BOS%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-LGA%0D%0ALGA-SYR%0D%0ASYR-DCA%0D%0ADCA-LGA%0D%0ALGA-SYR%0D%0ASYR-BOS%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0APHL-ORD%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0AORD-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ALGA-DCA%0D%0ADCA-MCO%0D%0ACLT-SYR%0D%0AMCO-CLT%0D%0ASYR-BOS%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0ASYR-BOS%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0APHL-BOS%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-LGA%0D%0ALGA-SYR%0D%0ACLT-SFO%0D%0APHL-CLT%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0ACLT-SYR%0D%0ASFO-CLT%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-LGA%0D%0ALGA-SYR%0D%0APHL-ORD%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0AORD-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0APHL-BOS%0D%0ASYR-PHL%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0ACLT-LAS%0D%0ALAS-SNA%0D%0ASYR-CLT%0D%0ALAS-PHX%0D%0ASNA-LAS%0D%0APHX-PIT%0D%0APIT-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-SYR%0D%0ALGA-BOS%0D%0ASYR-LGA%0D%0ABOS-SYR%0D%0ASYR-BOS%0D%0ABOS-DCA%0D%0ADCA-PIT%0D%0APIT-SYR%0D%0ADCA-BOS%0D%0ABOS-PHL%0D%0APHL-RIC%0D%0A&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&SPEED-GROUND=450&SPEED-UNITS=kts&MARKER=1&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=

My average flight credit was 611 miles. Only 20 of the 120 flights earned more than the 500 miles minimum credit. The average actual flight sector length was 399.7 miles. 74 were Mainline flights, 46 were Express. On the Mainline flights, upgrades cleared 62 times, or 84%. Overall, my upgrade rate was 52%.

Including bonus status miles from the US Airways Mastercard & elsewhere, my final EQM for the year is 92,158. I'll requalify for CP on segments.

Ugh.
David

Should finish the year with....

EQM's: 100,050
Segments: 69

(Unless I decide to make a quick trip up to NYC for Christmas)

Thats a little misleading though because I got an extra 10,000 preferred miles from BofA, I will take advantage of the double EQM promo for my last mileage run, and got a few class of service bonuses when rerouted and put in F manually.

I should be done my flying for the year, and I'm ending up just in gold category at 50889 miles and 28 segments, just pushing me over into GP for '07. Mine also includes 10,000 EQM from the US Mastercard and 1000 or so from FTD.

While my miles per segment was high, I saw my share of pain as most of the flights were transcons or transatlantic, and I don't think I managed a single upgrade other than one CLT-LGW segment upgrade to Envoy that I paid for. That was as SP so I'm hoping I'll do better on the transcon upgrades next year as GP.

I guess mine's been relatively painless compared to those of you at the minimums per segment...

122,479 miles
49 segments
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~2500 miles per seg


The numbers are skewed thanks to the 10k EQMs for $25k deal, some CoS bonuses, and about 5k miles in the DM shopping mall and FTD. I think my BIS-only average is 2000 miles per segment.

I had two trips before July (for 9k miles), so a very active second half of the year...

I've talked to a few CPs this year who made it on segs at the 500 mark - I really feel for you all. One guy I spoke with lived in IND, worked near DCA, and found it was still cheaper to fly home and back each week than to try and move his family and buy a car. And his employer didn't pay for the flights... :eek:

There are lots of stories of people living near PHX and working near LAX, and I'm guessing there are a few of you that have far longer commutes - e.g. PHL-LAX, PHX-PHL, etc. on a weekly basis.

After burning Dividend Miles all year with no paid segments until October, I decided after getting my 10,000 Preferred Qualifying Juniper MasterCard Miles, I still had a shot at at least renewing my Silver status if I took a quick Mileage Run in addition to a couple of scheduled Q4 trips planned. So after checking fares, I asked my wife if she wanted to go with me to Amsterdam or Hawaii. She picked Hawaii, and I booked a quick 5 day/4 night trip from MCO to KOA for less that $1200 for the two of us plus hotel and rental car.

Unfortunately, the day before we were to return from KOA, my wife slipped and fell dislocating her knee. The paramedics rushed her to the local hospital where they set her dislocated knee, but discovered that one of the arteries through the knee had been crushed. Since there were no vascular surgeons available on the "Big Island" she was evacuated by Air Ambulance to Honolulu where she had one surgery to repair the artery and another to insert "pins" and an external fixator to immobilize the knee. Then she had approximately 3 weeks in the hospital before she was cleared to go home (in First Class ONLY due to the immoblized knee).

So I think I may be in the running for MOST EXPENSIVE MILEAGE RUN EVER! So far, the known expenses are running (in round numbers):
$25000 Air Ambulance (as submitted to our insurance)
$48000 Vascular Surgeon (as submitted to our insurance)
$560 Additional Roundtrip home and back for me while wife was in hospital
$1800 Upgrade to First Class on the rescheduled return trip from Honolulu for wife and me (at least they waived the change fees under the circumstances)
$800 plus 130000 Hilton points for various additional hotel nights for me
$50 for my flight from KOA to HNL
$150 additional airport parking at MCO
...and we are still waiting for the Orthopedic Surgeon, the Hospitals, and the ground ambulances, and other miscellaneous doctors to bill our insurance, but we are VERY fortunate to have the insurance we do to cover most of this, plus the follow-on surgery that will be needed at home.

At least my wife got in the four dives that she had planned before the mishap.
And, even though I had to cancel my other Q4 trips, with the extra roundtrip home while my wife was in the hospital and the upgrade to First Class on our return from HNL, I will in fact requalify for Silver. No way that it will have been worth it though.

... MOST EXPENSIVE MILEAGE RUN EVER! ...

I doubt anybody else could come remotely close! :eek:

Glad to hear she got her planned dives in before the mishap, and best wishes for her complete recovery!

Not even in the running with L4PI, but am at 117 EQS with one trip to go. Will finish the year with 121 EQS and just shy of 80k EQM for an average of 660 EQM/EQS. This is mostly since May 1 and did include 2 RT transcons (one on the fifty-cent fares to LAS that was upgraded at the the gate to F out and back) and one CLT-SJO-CLT; the rest is all short-haul East Coast. Have accumulated an additional 47 EQS with UA this year. Still debating whether to shift to UA in 2007 but may be able to attain 1K with UA and still requalify as CP with US. Revenue will probably not meet the threshhold for UA's UGS.

All for now.

FltSrgn

A year of 500 milers interrupted by a single switched flight from NW to US to get from LAS to EWR. Thus, 529/flight. L4P, are you sure you don't need to be in LA early next week ;)

"Earned Toward Future Preferred Status 140789 miles and 63 segments"

Am I in the lead? :)

Looks like you are in the lead. And about 1/3 of the way to the record....;)

By some miracle, I'm going to hold on to the plat I got through the trial elite:

78,509 EQM
71 segments

After being at 9000/18 in April, it wasn't looking so good. But I then got a couple of transcon trips, then 10k for the credit card, then a completely unexpected trip to ARN (typically, all of our department's flying is domestic), and finally specifically routed a December BOS-LAX through PHX both ways to take full advantage of the Double EQM promo. Yikes! I'm trying to take a couple of long trips in January, BOS-LAS for example, to get off to a fast start next year; we just need to the appointment to come through. In case anyone's curious, here's the complete breakdown of the EQM's:

52,940 (67.4%): Flights, counting segments under 500 miles as their actual mileage
8,808 (11.2%): Extra miles for segments under 500 miles
10,000 (12.7%): Credit card
6,600 (8.4%): Mileage under Double EQM promotion (BOS-PHX-LAX r/t, BOS-PHL r/t)
161 (0.2%): Miles for Avis rental under Everything Counts