MilesBuzz! - How many airline miles do you have?

I am interested in knowing how many airline miles you currently have in your various frequent flyer accounts.

These are my current balances:


bmi 175,000
Starwood* 150,000
American 100,000
Continental 90,000
British Airways 90,000
Delta 10,000
United 10,000
Total 625,000


* I adjusted my actual 120,000 SPG balance upwards by 25% to reflect it's equivalent airline miles value.

In most years this balance grows by 100,000 miles reflecting earnings of 400,000 miles and redemptions of 300,000 miles.

Well I had a lot more last year but gave each of my kids and grandkids a free trip. I now have:
American: 102,000
US Air/AW 126,000
United 47,000
Delta 154,750
British 25,100
Starwood 110,000 (without considering additional value)



Total: 564,000

Not that many, I burn them as fast as I earn them. I have given a trip to Hawaii to my parents for the past 4 years, plus gone 2x per year myself.

Right now I have the following

CO - 600 (I just redeemed 2 55k point rewards)
DL - 100k (I would use them if I could :mad: )
AA - 16k
Hyatt - 250k
Hilton - 80k
UA - 7k - I stopped accumulating this one and am going to get a AQ interisland ticket with the balance.

[QUOTE=Colin]I am interested in knowing how many airline miles you currently have in your various frequent flyer accounts.

Never enough :D

I have what appears to be too many. No time to use them.

About 85k on UA... should be closer to 100k, I have a lot of bonuses that haven't cleared.

675,000 and counting-all on ua. burned about 200k in the past year for u/g's and awards for goalie parents, goalie-aunt, goalie-sis and goalie-ex g/f

64K on NW :(

AA - 650,000
DL - 450,000
BA - 260,000
UA - 28,000
NW- 22,000
CO - 20,000
AXP - 1,600,000

Hotel programs - no idea

AA - 650,000
DL - 450,000
BA - 260,000
UA - 28,000
NW- 22,000
CO - 20,000
AXP - 1,600,000

Hotel programs - no idea

64K on NW :(

I feel your pain. 52K on NW here. :(

aa-200k, but I used 160,000 this year

NH 500K+
UA 120K+
SPG 100K+
AMEX 45k+

I guess that makes about 3/4 of a million.

Gonna burn 180K of those soon I imagine, bit I also will be earning another 90K into NH by the end of the year.

MileTracker says I have about 1.6M airline miles and 750K hotel points. I've been burning for the last 2 years - US is down from 1.4M to 750K in 15 months and 200K Starwood points went for SuperBowl XL in January, putting it under 100K. I was probably at 3M total 18 months ago.

LH 1.4 million
BA 800k
BD 30k
AMEX MR 350k
HHonors 300k
SPG 10k

Too many--particularly hotel points. I need to start redeeming them for free flights and stays!

LH 960k
GF 72 Units = 216k
EK 66k

Hotel programms < 20k (proud to be an el cheapo Priceline guest..)

Amex MR: 5,500,000
Delta: 275,000
Continental: 480,000
Virgin: 475,000
Hawaiian: 300,000
ANA: 175,000

US 834k
AA 276k
UA 116k
Amex 100k
DL 45k
NW 37k
CO 26k
BA 10k

1.44 million air miles


Marriott 850k
Hilton 250k
*wood 90k

1.2 million hotel points

Paging Cholula.... do tell!

DL-600k
AA-250k
NW-120k
UA-50k
TTL-1,020,000 miles

not bad for 24 years old :cool:

I have what appears to be too many. No time to use them.


Oldpenny16, I think I have just fallen in love with you.

Looks like y'all are a bunch of Delta lightweights. :)

AA: 954k
DL: 119k
QF: 111k
NW: 43k
CX: 37k
US: 13k
UA: 31k
SU: 8k
CO: 11k

Paging Cholula.... do tell!

I had over 3 million DL miles a couple years ago.
I’m somewhere around 1 million +/- today due to mucho Business Class tickets to Europe and also a secret accrual fund I’ve set up for Dovster.
Since I know he doesn’t read MilesBuzz, I feel comfortable in sharing this with you all.
Once the war in Israel/Lebanon is over, I know he’ll want to follow-up on all the marriage proposals he’s received lately.
I’ve got a surprise for him. :)
:p

I ...also a secret accrual fund I’ve set up for Dovster.
Since I know he doesn’t read MilesBuzz, I feel comfortable in sharing this with you all....Once the war in Israel/Lebanon is over, I know he’ll want to follow-up on all the marriage proposals he’s received lately. I’ve got a surprise for him.
Should I ruin this surprise, just PM him about this fund/secret? Gosh, it's so tempting!! ;) :p

Back to the topic. I don't have too many miles. I am building my hotel/mile bank for my younger sister so her family of three can pay a visit to Disney in Tokyo next year for free.

AA: 430k (460k next Saturday) :)

BA: 340k

IB: 4200 points (that is about 2/3 of a Business+ ticket Europe-America), 4000 of which are (2 x 2000) Customer Service compensations...

I feel your pain. 52K on NW here. :(

If that is pain, then I am terminally ill. Currently over 350k on NW -- but that is nothing compared to what I expect some of the heavy-hitters on the NW forum have. Luckily I have a good bit elsewhere too.

Umm...does GlobalPass count? :(

Well, I've got about
14k on Delta
14k on AA
3.5k on Virgin
and that's about it.

I just can't wait to become a member of Coupon Connection (I've resisted the urge to "pad" my post-stats just to join even though I've been here a while)...since I may be one of the few people in this world that can actually USE Northwest miles...and SAVE money doing so!

I was up over 110K on AA at the beginning of the year but I burned 40K on a UK ticket (probably not the best bang for the miles) in Feb. and 35K on a Hawaii ticket for this coming December (a great bang for the miles :cool: ). So right now, right after taking a Chicago hop, I am at 41+K on AA. I am thinking of burning that on a Spain ticket for next April-ish, guess I should decide soon! Also have 13+K on CO, mostly by flying NW for work...someday I will have enough for it to be useful... :)

Just cleaned out my AA for two business class to Rome next year. Oh well, now I start from scratch again...

So far:

Delta Air Lines SkyMiles 6,412
Northwest Airlines WorldPerks 5,596

Wee...

However, I'm expecting substantial increases... :)

UAL 1,203,247

Qantas 56,900

AA 300K
CO 2.7 M
DL 2.85M and trying to spend
UA 3.1 M

Priority 200K
Starwood 400K
Marriott 750K
Hyatt 600K
Hilton 1.3M
Yes, I'm a mileage pig.

After burning 3 award tics to Europe on UA in June, balance is
UA: 644,389
AA: 123,221
DL: 022,340
Others: no worth mentioning

About 1.1mm spread out over UA, AS and AA.

Umm...does GlobalPass count? :(

Now there is a really good question. LOL.

Those GP/LP miles are not worth anything other than lining the litter box.

NOT counting the leftover GP bonus miles, I've got about 600,000 in real usable other airline miles. And about 900,000 various hotel points.

Hi folks,

I'm new to this chat room having been directed from an article in the NYTimes. I've accumulated the following mile rewards:

Continental - 22,000, also $130 credit for future flight
Delta - 56,000

The majority of reward points were amassed by personal travel and I have recently joined in credit card and shopper programs to increase reward points.

I have several issues regarding utilizing flight miles. The Delta reward plan has increased the miles for a one-way from 25,000 to 50,000; there never seems to be a 'select' flight that is convenient and I can use less miles. My plan is to have sufficient reward mileage for a trip to California, in 2007.

Is a barter program available where I can trade miles with another person? Continental sells miles $32 per thousand but I do not want to do that. I'm not aware of a purchase plan thru Delta.

Since Delta and Continental have similar routes for my location - northern NJ, I would consider consolidating the mileage from both airlines to one account.

Thanks for your reply.

Hi folks,
Is a barter program available where I can trade miles with another person?

Since Delta and Continental have similar routes for my location - northern NJ, I would consider consolidating the mileage from both airlines to one account.

Thanks for your reply.


Welcome to FT, Alles.

See the thread "Consolidating Miles" in this forum (Miles Buzz). There are also LOTS of ways to earn the extra miles you need (see S.P.A.M.). Delta also allows you to purchase miles, but you shouldn't need to. You should be able to get the points you need by '07. Good luck making it to California.

And, since I'm posting here, my miles are currently:
AA 20,000
DL 65,000

I burn miles as soon as they accumulate. If the balance gets large, I start looking for where the miles will get me (rather than waiting for a ticket to somewhere I need to go). It's been a great adventure!

Rounded to nearest 1000 miles/points (except for CO):

Airline
AA: 466K
UA: 376K
US: 50K
DL: 21K
NW: 5K
CO: 53 miles

Hotel
SPG: 40K
HH: 36K
MR: 18K

Rounded to nearest 1000 miles/points (except for CO):

Airline
AA: 466K
UA: 376K
US: 50K
DL: 21K
NW: 5K
CO: 53 miles

Hotel
SPG: 40K
HH: 36K
MR: 18K


On which flight did you accumulate the 53 CO miles ? Or is the the balance remaining after wiping out your account with awards ?

way to many unusable NW miles.

AA--125k
CO--54K
UA--65k
NWA--213k

In addition, I've burned 900k the last five or six years and have about 200k worth of future award tickets, right now. Because of flying on so many award tickets, I've been losing status on various airlines: AA ExPlat to Plat and to Gold next year; NWA Plat to Gold to Silver to no status next year; CO Plat to no status.

Northwest 300k
Continental 50k
AA 20k
Starwood 150k

WOW! I thought I had a pretty good amount until opening this thread! :)

UA 168k
F9 30k
AA 28k
NW 22k
DL 16k

With another 60k on UA and F9 booked for the next few months...

On which flight did you accumulate the 53 CO miles ? Or is the the balance remaining after wiping out your account with awards ?

Remaining balance after burning my miles. As of October 2004, I had 210,053, and I used 210,000 of them to book 2 business class tickets on QF for my trip to Australia/New Zealand last July.

(Incidentally, I did get 82 UA miles for flying NZ between NSN-WLG during that trip.)

OK, I'll bite. I have always been a mile burner...

AA 53K, down from 2.3million lifetime
US 97K, down from over a million lifetime
BA 95K, from a lot of AVIS rentals
DL 116K, down from 580K lifetime
UA 22K
CO 56K
NW 92K

Current Total is 591,000

Hilton HHonors 300K
Holiday Inn PC 459K
Marriott 73K

-outoftown

Air Canada= 120.000
Hilton= 5000

I have a total of about 200,000 airline miles. I try to burn 'em for int'l biusiness seats when I can, so I never get more than 400k total.

I think my Hilton HHonors balance is at 100,000 -- those I save up and use for 6 nights at a Category 6 when I hit 175k, but I'm thinking that this time I may wait until I'm at 240k and take the African Safari award. :D

I should say that I would definitely not have nearly as many points and miles or been able to earn and use all that I have without FlyerTalk. Thanks everyone!

peace,
~Ben~

Just cleaned out my AA for two business class to Rome next year. Oh well, now I start from scratch again...

I did that this spring, and it was sooo worth it! Although, I didn't clean out the mileage bank acct. to do it. Sitting on about 470K AS miles, 102K NWA miles, 62K CO miles, and 12K DL miles. (Burned 180K to FCO as mentioned) ;) and another 40K for FC upgrades to CUN this fall. Also have 30K Marriott, 225K Hhonors and 118K SPG points.

NW 630,000
YX 165,000 (Midwest Airlines)
AA 135,000
UN 35,000
DL 30,000

Starwood 105,000 - only included as they can convert to airline miles without loss of value as pointed out in the OP

I've burned 205,000 miles in the past 9 months.

Co 385k
Ua 242k
Ba 107k
Dl 37k
Aa 35k
Us 25k

I'm at about 250,000, but we just burned 240k for 3 FC tickets to Panama. I get the itch to spend miles once I'm over 400k...it would pain me if I lost them at that point. And with NW right now, I just don't want to take that risk! :rolleyes:

I have burned 230,000 so far this year.

AA 305,000
DL 286,000
UA 116,000
BA 16,000
US 27,000

SPG 22,000
TY 53,000


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my new update is 400,000 on American Airlines.

Just a a paltry 285K on UA, gotta build it up!

aa 380,000
ua 150,000

have burnt 500,000 so far this year with aa (including 3 international F saver award).

DL 141k
AA 43k
UA 12k

Total: not enough

Marr 387,000
Hil 259,000
Ua 687,000
Aa 37,000

Ua 390k
Aa 63k

I have burned more than 600K miles so far this year.

Left:
150K+ BA
100K+ CX
40K+ AA
90K+ UA
+ others

300K+ HH
300K+ MRT
70K+ Hyatt
260K + IC

112k NW
30k UA
21k Delta
15k AA

small amounts for hotels and other airlines

460K on UA; adding another 90K within 2 weeks. (I love the DYMTWTU promotion!)

AirCanada 45k
American 21k
Amtrak 27k
Delta 27k
USAir 64k
Total 184k

Prior to last year I didnt fly much, so here goes my mere:

UA: 120,000, after burning 73,000 so far this year.

Aa: 510k

AA: 2.2 million (lifetime), but only 78K currently in there. I've had to use them lately since airfare has been so ridiculously expensive (IMO).

Other programs: I have orphaned miles in several other programs. But not enough to do me any good. Most annoying - the 15K in NW that I moved into there several years ago, with plans to move them on thru to something else (Hilton, I think). Turns out, they can't be transferred out.

Delta 400K ( almost all from amex)
AA 150K

BA K

Small amounts in other

AA 155k
LH 39k
AZ 18k
DL 10k
UA 8k
TP 4k
AF/KL 6k

HH 10k
SPG 1k
PC 5k
BW ?
Solmelia 3k

DL 680k
UA 503k
AMEX 935k
Hyatt 103k
SPG 45K
Hilton 75K
Alaska 240k

I use them to take the family a couple of times a year.

AA - 27K
ANA - 2.8K
NW - 24K
UA - 188K

Hilton - 2.3K
Marriott - 52K
SPG - 14K

That's it...

I'm a spender, so not really high banks:

NW: 100k
UA: 30k
CO: 11k
AA: 3k
US: 2k

HH: 150k
SPG: 15k

Me
CO 761,000
NW 117,000

SPG 121,000

My Wife

CO 755,000
NW 45,000
AC 147,000

SPG 217,000

Too busy travelling to spend them :)

AA 518,000
HH 102,000
UA 20,000
BA 55,000

CO: 15,000+ (just used 650,000 this year)
UA: 45,000+
NW: 10,000+
BA: 9,000+
AA: Dont know
DL: 2000 ~
Hotel: dont know

DL 380k
US 20k
CO 5k

CO 164,000
BA 113,000
AA 58,000 (with another 37K coming in the next 2 months due to platinum challenge and thanks to Flyertalk!)
UA 20,000
Virgin 10,000

AA 600K
Delta 38k
UsAir 25k
Co 40k
Starwood 150k
Amex 100k

I use them before I lose them...

AA - 150K
SkyM - 130K
NW - 10K
Hilton - 12K
SPG - 200K (not upgraded for transfer bonus)

Others - 40K

I value my SPG points far above the AA and SkyM points. I figure four round trip tickets to europe for the airlines, a single night at Hilton, and about 25 nights (average) on the SPG hotel nights.

Need to use them before point devaluation occurs

Just had a few things post on Hilton and AA, so now not too embarrassed to play:

United: 10k
NWA: 14k
Alaska: 332k:
AA: 1.006 Million

Hyatt: 512
Marriott: 188k
Goldpoints: 234k
Starwood: 925k
Hilton: 1.998 Million

Grand total approaching 4.7 Million

I'm running low again...

NW 285k
US 27k
AA 10k
UA 10k

Hotels are getting lower too.

MR 165k
HH 90k
SPG ??? very few

I usually end up burning about 300-400k each time the Stones go on tour. I've already burned close to 400k since the tour started 13 month's ago and now the 2nd US leg starts back up again in BOS on 9/20. I'll be empty by the time they end in Hawaii on 11/22. (Oops, they haven't announced that show yet)

:D A whole bunch more than Jailer. :D

That is as it should be. I am a whole bunch older than Jailer, and only have 3.75 years left to play the "accumulation" game. Then I get to spend like a wild woman. ^

I'm a burner. Maintain enough for short term needs only. Long term, well by the time I get there the miles are likely to be worth that much less. Not to mention award availability is better for elites in some programs so it makes sense to burn.

Hmm, I've been too busy to burn miles lately...


Air Canada 1.4m (down 400k from my peak after a OZ trip)
Hilton: 650k
Marroit: 500k
Delta: 50k

I'm a burner. Maintain enough for short term needs only. Long term, well by the time I get there the miles are likely to be worth that much less. Not to mention award availability is better for elites in some programs so it makes sense to burn.

I am a burner as well. My goal is to burn the miles/points earned in a year or so. They are definitely not worth saving for.

I feel so sorry for people who are "saving" their miles for retirement without understanding that the value goes down every year or so.

UA 50 000 (Thank you ameniti)
AS 1 432
AC 84 482

I suspect, holtju2, that if you truly understood my situation, you would not feel in the least bit sorry for me, and my savings FlyRA for my retirement.

With the epidemic of cancer and heart disease that we are experiencing in America, even getting to reitirement is a great victory, with or without a huge hoard of miles. Of course, if we are lucky enough not to crash, and avoid the big "C", the hoards of miles, health, and wealth that we accumulate along the way, make retirement just all that much sweeter. ^

Life is always good.

AS 412k
AA 512k
CO 15k
NW 71k
UA 100k
US 40k

HH 401k
PC 155k
SPG 7k

There are a few orphan account too with few points in them.

:D A whole bunch more than Jailer. :D

I am a whole bunch older than Jailer, and only have 3.75 years left to play the "accumulation" game.

Punkster, mayhaps you will retire before I, mayhaps not. Never bet against my indolence.

You do have me at an advantage; you and Hunk are both earners, while I alone have to support the greedy travel habits of a family of four (although Mrs. J. did inadvertently get in one Idine this year because I registered her credit cards). I cashed in nearly 3/4 a million in '06, and only kept it under a million because we stayed with various family members the entire 2 1/2 weeks we were in Oz.

That said, I tend to agree with you that one's balance should be considered as retirement assets. But, if, and only if, it does not require denying any trips when still employed....Let's face it, none of us know how long we (or the various airlines/hotel chains) have left on this earth.

I feel so sorry for people who are "saving" their miles for retirement without understanding that the value goes down every year or so.

Awards, like most anything else, are subject to inflation. But I suspect that having the freedom that comes with retirement could allow one to maximize their pot of miles/points my taking advantage of specials and/or non-peak travel. I’ll let you know when I get to the other side.

That said, I would never put off a sure trip now for a possible trip, or two, in the future.

United 132K

Jailer writes:

You do have me at an advantage; you and Hunk are both earners, while I alone have to support the greedy travel habits of a family of four

This is true.

Additionally, our son, Peregrine has also become a serious mileage earner. We have passed the "frequent travel for set-up and dismantel" baton on to him and other staff members.

While Hunki and I dropped AS when upgrading became impossible, our son, will attain top staus with them this year. Maybe we can guilt him into giving us his upgrades. ;)

BA - 385,000 (spent more than 200,000 in the last year for honeymoon + trips due to family emergencies; now I'm trying to save them for MFUPs and for some premium long-haul travel)

AC - 60,000 (spent about 175,000 in the last year to visit family, have them visit us or send them to visit each other)

Flying Blue - 35,000 (amazingly, we've spent enough on the Amex to acquire enough level miles for FB Silver, without ever having stepped on an AF plane)

Miles&Smiles (Turkish Airlines) - 25,000 (not sure how I'm ever going to manage to spend these)

Virgin - about 30,000

I miss my old job, where I used to accumulate about 200,000 BA miles per year, plus another 100,000 or so on AC. Either I need to find a new job, or Mr. Canuck has to become a consultant again.

I feel so sorry for people who are "saving" their miles for retirement without understanding that the value goes down every year or so.

I would be willing to bet you a subscription to Inside Flyer that in 10 years, the price of tickets will go up more than the mileage requirement for tickets, making the value of today's miles higher than they are now.

Dream on. Within the next 3 years, I predict a 50% devaluation of most airline miles by the elimination of all saver awards (25K mile domestic awards) leaving only standard awards (50L miles domestic awards) remaining.

573k on NWA but I have used 300k so far this year.
73k on UA (have not flown on UA metal in over 2 years)

I should accumulate 200k more on NWA before the end of the year based on current plans.

I only fly a few segments per year outside of Skyteam so my other balances are all fairly small.

Delta - 1,376,428 (flown is about 500,000 the rest is bonuses) : I never have a chance to really cash them in except a few short flights and have stopped flying Delta. I have in the past two montsh beeing trying to get flights for family members, but whenever I call, no matter what the routing, with flexibility of +/-14 days I can never seen to get a damn flight ! The miles seem almost worthless with Delta. I tried to use them to upgrade on a flight t o Gatwick and the damn upgrade was not available (and I still have 13 upgrae vouchers on my desk which expire at some point....but DL said no seats were availablle for those either and I had flexibility of looking at 9 possible flight combinations). I donated a bunch of miles last year. I'd rather donate them than have them just sit there


United : 178,991 : Switched from UA (and DL) to US recently so no more UA miles, I'll use them later this year for my father-in-law)

US: 78,678 : Will pick up 4,000 or so miles today flying home from Heathrow, not including whatever the bonus is.

CO: 168k
Alaskan: 2k :)

AIR:

LH 450k (about 0.5mio spent)
BA 70k
OS+ 30k

Hotels:
HH 400k (200k+ spent)
SPG 130k (growing fast;-)
Priority 70k
BW 70k

enough for a few free nights in others (Mac Donald, Steigenberger, Maritim)

Only 80662 on UA. I burn a lot.

But I will be booking a standard Y award during Thanksgiving, so subtract another 40k from that.

NW: 360,000

Marriott: 620,000

The miles seem almost worthless with Delta. Can't you book NWA, KLM or CO using Delta miles?

AC 330,000 (not saving, I used up 300,00)
NWA 52,000
Airmiles ~10,000

Delta - 1,376,428


Nice!
Air:
UA - 400,000
AA - 100,000
Land:
SPG: 290,000
Hilton: 300,000
Hyatt: 60,000
Marriott: 90,000

Delta - 1,376,428

Woh!
compare to that I have almost nothing...

Every time I hit 15K I buy another r/t Y tix and u/g to F outbound in advance with it, so I rarely hold more than 15K! Return leg u/g's to F for cash, d/d.
He who dies with the most award miles loses!

AA 280K (down from 561K after lots of award bookings--why wait for retirement!)
HP/US 140K
all other airlines: 217K combined

The kicker was my old Marriott account. I've been burning through those points like a fiend. At one point I had ~740K points but now I'm down to barely 60K!

Over a million between DL, CO, NW, UA, AA, AC and US.

Too many hotel points to count.

Appx. 8 million combining all programmes, this is despite burning about a million over the last 14 months

He who dies with the most award miles loses!


That's absolutely right!

I can say categorically that the above sentiment is absolutely wrong, I believe there are several dozen of us on FT that can attest to the fact that huge balances historically over the last 6 years or so have led to even bigger payoffs.

439762 on NW
206804 on UA
56546 on Starwoods
70041 on AXR

Just burned 140,000 UA miles for trips

He who dies with the most award miles loses!

Last time I revised my will I listed all the airline miles and hotel points. After I’m gone, I want Mrs. Jailer and the pool boy to travel in style.

Wow. "Absolutely right." "Categorically wrong." Holy shnykies! Look that up under "Mixed emotions." Allow me to clarify:
"He who dies with the most UNUSED award miles loses!"

But our families win!

Whenever I feel like complaining about all my traveling, I'll refer to this thread and thank my lucky stars that it's only 150k miles a year (on average). I currently have about 500k on UA, CO and AA.

460K on UA; adding another 90K within 2 weeks. (I love the DYMTWTU promotion!)577K on UA.

WOW. How do you guys get all these miles? Do you fly everyday in First Class?

anyways, compared to you guys, I got nothing:
UA - ~40K
NWA - ~30K

I have an upcoming trip to India where i'll earn ~15,500 miles.

AA: 458,921 (Plat)
AL: 39,528 (MVP Gold)
UA: 321,376 (Peon)
US: 19,000 (Peon)

and for kicks:

Hilton: 107,757 (Gold)
Hyatt: 125,077 (Plat)
SPG: 18,349 (Gold)
Choice: 18,000 (Who knows)

CO 509k (plat)
DL 64k (dirt)

Hilton 397k (diamond)

CO (Plat): 1,211,000 (would be more, but use them for hubby's upgrades)
UA (1K): 426,000
US: 110,000
QF: 385,000 (Thank you *wood tsfr)
NW : 8,000
DL: 7,000

And for Hotels:
Starwood: 153,000
Hyatt: 318,000
Marriott: 48,000
Hilton: 76,000

AA: 600K (have another 60k or so for the remainder of the year).
DL: 25K
SPG: 30K
HH: 30K
Hyatt: 35K
AMEX: 200K

My hotel totals would be more but I burn through those fairly quickly.

UA 130k
DL 45k

Hilton 40k

Not much, but enough to make them worth having. I keep wanting to save the UA miles for a RTW, but always end up using them as soon as I hit the 120k mark.

buck3y3nut writes:
WOW. How do you guys get all these miles? Do you fly everyday in First Class?

I don't know how anybody else gets them but, between Hunki and I, we accumulate about 500,000 miles per year by flying, and the rest we get from hotels stays or spending money.

I have never really figured out how many hotel points we get each year from staying, and how many we get from spending. I do know that we seem to get Hilton points a lot faster than we get Starwood points, despite the fact that wespend a lot more money on our SPG AMEX card than we do on our Hilton AMEX card.

The game is good, and a whole lot of fun! ^

It's been my general rule to spend them as soon as I earn them; however, right now I'm saving them up to upgrade my wife and myself on a trip to Europe next year. 68k+ on UAL.

AA ~920K
UAL ~80K
USAir ~40K
Delta ~25K
Marriott ~2M

I know, I have to start spending these!

My first post. :)

I have 33K Delta Miles
24K Marriot Rewards (Gold)
3300 Hilton HHonors

AAL: 350,000
UAL: 280,000
Blue (AF/KLM): 185,000

Marriot: 300,000
Hilton: 280,000

Citi ThankYou: 100,000

That about covers it. Mostly I just use the status, travelling for business all the time I don't really want to use the miles right now, most of my spending is giveaways to friends and family. Anyone else in that boat and have suggestions for good programs to earn on for the giveaways?

NH 500K+
UA 120K+
SPG 100K+
AMEX 45k+

I guess that makes about 3/4 of a million.

Gonna burn 180K of those soon I imagine, bit I also will be earning another 90K into NH by the end of the year.

Nice way too put it, 3/4 of a million sounds like so much more.

United 100,000
AC 50,000
HH 10,000

CO (Plat): 1,211,000 (would be more, but use them for hubby's upgrades)
UA (1K): 426,000
US: 110,000
QF: 385,000 (Thank you *wood tsfr)
NW : 8,000
DL: 7,000

And for Hotels:
Starwood: 153,000
Hyatt: 318,000
Marriott: 48,000
Hilton: 76,000


Very impressive. ^

Every time I hit 15K I buy another r/t Y tix and u/g to F outbound in advance with it, so I rarely hold more than 15K! Return leg u/g's to F for cash, d/d.
He who dies with the most award miles loses!


How true!

UA 185,000
DL 103,000 (but never seem to be able to use them)
AA 55,000

I usually burn a lot of UA on upgrades etc and coupl of tix a year. The DL miles never ever seem to have saver availability so stopped using the AMex.

USe the Chase United a lot!!

117K on UA
25K with Marriott

I usually carry over 200K, but I just got done taking everyone (MRs Bubba and the four kids) on vacation this summer (40K each). So, I'm zapped until first quarter.

Bubba

Flying out of TPA my miles are spread out. Unused miles and points are as follows:

Delta 95k
American 129k
US Air 37k
NWA 19k
SWA 16 credits (one unused round trip award)

Hotels:

Marriott 178k
Hilton 110k
Choice 20k

So far this year I have burned the following for vacations to CDG and JAC and one business trip to BWI :

Delta: 200k
SWA 16 credits
Hilton 245k
Marriott 70k

Ua 150k
Ba 200k
Aa 210k
Hh 600k
Mr 100k

JAL-110k (just cashed in 57.5k to upgrade to business ORD-MNL and KUL-ORD but will be getting approx 25k back) :)
Continental-18k

Wow you guys and gals have lots of miles. I really would love to have a job that involves travel, just for one year so I can get it out of my system.

I have the following:
United: 33K
Northwest: 30K
That's about it. I'm travelling to India in Dec. so I should probably earn some on that with BMIs program. The virgin segment i'm still thinking of either putting them on Continental or let them go via BMI's program as well.

Wow you guys and gals have lots of miles. I really would love to have a job that involves travel, just for one year so I can get it out of my system.


While I do have a job that involves travel, it's travel in a tractor trailer. ;) I kind of wish my trucking company gave me a FF mile for every mile I drove, I'd be getting 125k per year just from work.

My Jal miles comes from vacation travel but my Continental miles comes from my bank issued debit card. While there are plenty of credit cards that offer miles, I don't do anything on credit. But to each his own. :)

AA 412K
Delta 55K
UA 42K
NW 32K

Marriott 76K
Hyatt 110K

American Express 126K

I was able to use over 200K on American this year for family vacations, which really makes the business travel to build up miles worth it.

725k on AA (yeah, I know - I should probably use these at some point!)
65k on USAir
50k on Delta

235k on IC Priority Club

I now have 803 UA miles. Nowhere to go but up.

NW = 300k
UA = 125k
DL = 118k
AA = 105k
YX = 38k

Total Airline = 686k

Hilton = 550k
Marriott = 35k
Starwood = 5k
Hyatt = 3k

Total Hotel = 593k

Until recently, I had 817k AA miles [including transfers from SPG, AmEx MR, Hilton, Hyatt, etc]; I have redeemed the following tickets and only have 2k miles left:


LHR-MIA on AA in Y (40k)
ORD-LHR on AA in Y (60k)
LHR-NBO on BA in J (75k) x 5
LHR-CPT on LX in J (75k) x 2
ORD-SFO-BOM-LHR-PEK-NBO-LHR on AA/CX/BA in J (190k)


I have about 25k miles on United as well, and have redeemed over 500k miles on BA.

United - 225k
CO - 20k
AA - 30k or so

250k on ual mostly credit card

Me
AA - 631k
DL - 425k
NW - 34k
UA - 120k (after using 200k giving mom an FC ticket to FRA :-: )

Better half
CO - 120k (after using 100k for two coach tickets for this December)
AA - 23k
UA - 48k

Wow you guys and gals have lots of miles. I really would love to have a job that involves travel, just for one year so I can get it out of my system.
Welcome to FlyerTalk, PcolaPaul. Until you land that dream-job, FlyerTalk forums help us all fly more for less, so hopefully with some time here you may find out how to get enough butt-in seat-miles on-the-cheap to get a feel for frequent flying. Aloha!

Wow you guys and gals have lots of miles. I really would love to have a job that involves travel, just for one year so I can get it out of my system.

You can get miles by other means. My wife's points are all by flying, primarily on AA or CO. We use her points to upgrade her to FC whenever she has a long flight and doesn't get an elite upgrade.

All of my points have been amassed by non-flying, either via credit cards, purchasing of miles, using airlines shopping links, or things like electric utility programs where you get 2 points per $$ spent each month if you charge your bill. I became very involved back before the dot-com bubble burst and took advantage of every opportunity to earn miles, especially NWA's bonus programs. Another fun way was when we could purchase US savings bonds with credit cards, or join a brokerage firm or bank.
If you do enough research on Flyertalk, you'll find easy ways to get miles. Before 9/11, it was almost like an addiction :rolleyes:

Ua 150k
Ba 200k
Aa 210k
Hh 600k
Mr 100k


UA 160K

AA 6K
Hyatt 88K
IC 29K

AA: 68k
DL: 2k

Just started flying more this year. . .this site has made the traveling experience SO much more pleasant. :)

AA Plat aand I have 440K miles at the moment. I'm 5K miles from my first million and lifetime gold status.

AA Plt
780k lifetime (plus a few hundred)
380k total at the moment (plus a few hundred, having used 400k exactly)

3,000,000 AA
2,000,000 NW
1,300,000 Holiday-Inn
450,000 Starwood
200,000 Hilton
600,000 Amex

DL =105,000
AC =70,000
AA=5,000
NW=?
CO=?

Havent flown them in years

AA - 980K
Marriott - 1.4mm
US - 165K
MBNA World Rewards - 1mm (stupid stupid stupid)

Miles on hand


Delta - 400,000
United - 10,000
American - 300,000
Starwood - 32,000
Hilton - 20,000

UA 378k
AZ 93k
BA 22k

I feel like a baby compared to all these heavy hitters!

UA 378k
AZ 93k
BA 22k

I feel like a baby compared to all these heavy hitters!

I feel like a baby too!

Alaska - 250k
United - 115k
Delta - 97k
American - 15k

Us 550,000
Nw 49,000
Aa 62,000
Dl 12,000
Ua 75,000

3,000,000 AA
2,000,000 NW
1,300,000 Holiday-Inn
450,000 Starwood
200,000 Hilton
600,000 Amex


that.
is.
rediculous.

wow.

205,000 BA
185,000 Delta
97,000 NW
475,000 MR

UA 450,000
AA 200,000
CO 85,000
NW 4,000

I'm finding the AA miles easier to burn off flying the folks around. Unfortunately, UA doesn't serve their local airport.

UA 450,000
AA 200,000
CO 85,000
NW 4,000

I'm finding the AA miles easier to burn off flying the folks around. Unfortunately, UA doesn't serve their local airport.

Not ealy to generate your UA miles out of AUS...or did/do you? :)

UA 452K left :)

have used 320K this past year
have some AA and NW but don't use them anymore

AA 175000
Marriott 125000
UA 10000 - Used miles for an IPOD speaker deal since I could not use them for EZE flights in business class

Currently on-hand:

185k UA
125k DL
115k CO
45k NW
32k BA
28k US
12k AA

290k Hilton
78k Marriott

over 3M with AA and 1M or so with DL/UA

miles? me? now?...

well i dunno, maybe 120k on AA and close to that on a couple other airllines, plus the fact i help manage the accounts for family members so we know when to best use what...

I tend to use the miles as I go and am vastly different from some business traveling friends of mine who use them for upgrades or collect too many to even have time to uyse them all up. In my circle of friends, sadly, many of these people never have ample vacation time to go/use them all up anyway. I don't currently travel for work but am happy to hear the business traveler can still benefit from mileage things into today's overly restrictive flying and marketing world. I tend to hunt and gather, use em up and then go get more. I don't have 100% faith the whole gig is stable enough to put all my eggs into baskets for too long. But I'm not horribly worried--just cautious.

I'm also different than many non FT savvy types all of us have run into who like to boast their numerous mileage like flashing gold, as if to impress someone in the same way the fat mafioso guy in the big cadilac would wanna show off to some trashy NJ street girls in a mob movie set in the late 1970s or something.

yo! Vinny!...

;)MM