MilesBuzz! - Prepare yourself for 0 miles/points. (I hate when this happens.)

Every year about this time I start getting apprehensive, knowing that it will be just a few more days until all my accounts roll over to Zero YTD miles, stays and nights. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

This is soooooooooo sad. Any good advice on how to deal with totally depressing annual event?

get over it ?

I find Russian vodka helpful ... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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Vasant

Book a flight, preferably a long one to a warm place in mid-January.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Efrem:
Book a flight, preferably a long one to a warm place in mid-January.</font>

That was my solution (SIN on 10-Jan).. Can't bear to see the Zeros.. so by the time they are visable (around the 14th I guess) I'll have at least 20k back up there http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
The worst bit is knowing how much of a hard slog is ahead of you to get back to that comfortable 100k mark again.. then you get to relax for a few months...

I'm spreading out my mileage runs this year because I just KNOW business travel is going to go to hell this year.

I'll go for 4 SIN runs and pick up the other 20k in business mileage.. now is that dedicated or what..

That's why I'm flying first thing January 1st. Can't wait to get rid of that goose egg.

At least I'm waiting until January 4 for my first run http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

One of the few real "enhancements" to the SkyMiles program is that really heavy FFs can carry some excess mileage over. Unfortunately, I don't fly quite enough to benefit from that! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

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Vasant

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ken in Phx:
get over it ?</font>

Couldn't have said it better myself.

No, no, no! Think of what lies ahead! A completely clean slate! All the places you'll visit and the things you'll do! Another year's worth of incriminating photos of you taken by others at FT gatherings about to begin! OK, I speak only for myself on that last one.

On your mark, get set, GO!

I'm with PremEx. Flying to GIG on January 1. No goose eggs for me!

Thank you for the excellent suggestions on how to get over it. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

I am a little confused by the procedural order. Am I supposed to, as Efrem suggests:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Book a flight, preferably a long one to a warm place in mid-January. </font>

before or after I follow vasantn's path:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I find Russian vodka helpful ... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif</font>

Maybe we could have a big old party and all earn points by flying to Russia to buy the Vodka. Then we could fly someplace warm and have another party, drinking the Vodka in a Flyer Talk suite while we book our flights for the year on line. Just think of the possibilities. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

We all may end up with top status on airlines we have never even hear of heretofore.

[This message has been edited by Punki (edited 12-29-2002).]

Yep..I have booked Jan 5, 2003 MIA-STX..we all hate that '0' http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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MRKEY

Flying Jan 1 JFK-NRT-SIN (Transit hotel) and on in the morning to the Sheraton Perdana, Langkwai (some place warm and nice) http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Hm. If you're on a flight that starts on Dec. 31 and lands on Jan. 1, which year do the miles get credited to? I assume the earlier year, since the flight is booked for 12/31. It'd be cool, though, if the miles were prorated....

At 1201am reach for the placebo and get those HHilton profile update points.

Hi,

Earning 250 miles EDI-LHR on 31st Dec then on 1st Jan flying VS PE from LHR to IAD ( 5.5k)

Happy New Year

Regards
TBS

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rafatmit:
Hm. If you're on a flight that starts on Dec. 31 and lands on Jan. 1, which year do the miles get credited to? I assume the earlier year, since the flight is booked for 12/31. It'd be cool, though, if the miles were prorated....</font>

This was discussed on the UA boards a while back. In UA land it goes by date of departure, with time local to the departing city. I believe this rule also applies for earning HK-49s, which accumulate quarterly.

It shouldn't take an MIT grad http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif to realize this convention skirts the thorny issue of how to credit a flight such as LAX-SYD which lands two calendar days after it departs.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Punki:
Every year about this time I start getting apprehensive, knowing that it will be just a few more days until all my accounts roll over to Zero YTD miles, stays and nights. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

This is soooooooooo sad. Any good advice on how to deal with totally depressing annual event?</font>

Depressing?? Not at all!

What's depressing is when I have met all my goals near the end of the year and have to twiddle my thumbs and wait until 1/1 rolls around so I can start the next chase! Let's go!

And of course your first few statements will highlight the fact that "you have earned 1,000 miles so far this year, you only have 74,000 more miles to earn in order to requalify....."
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I find myself in the opposite position, PLT status already taken care off, Can't wait for the counter to restart so I can start making inroads to EXP !

First flight is on Jan 01 5.06 PM...

All of us road warriors should be recognized for traveling at all.

This was a year of inconveniences, new airport rules, bankruptcies, flight reductions, etc, etc.

Those of us who traveled every week had to be quite "flexible" I hope 2003 is smoother sailing.

Good Luck!

Already have 3 trips scheduled in Jan., first one on the 8th. I hate zeros too!

Just think about it as another step closer when you can quit!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by crankyusi:
At 1201am reach for the placebo and get those HHilton profile update points.</font>

GOSH, cranky! Thanks for reminding me to update for THIS quarter!

Just think Punky, I can update again on the first = 2,000 points in less than 48 hours. Yummy! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LastClass:
This was discussed on the UA boards a while back. In UA land it goes by date of departure, with time local to the departing city. </font>

Ok. So what happens when a 10pm Redeye boards 2 1/2 hours late? :-)



[This message has been edited by VPescado (edited 12-30-2002).]

Yup, its a shock to the system. Must make a copy of the statement for the year and gaze at it from time to time.

I think I may have actually flown fewer miles this year than last. We had that AS/QF award last year that had us at about 17K miles that didn't count for squat mileage wise but the memories http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif.

lala
finishing off the year at 7AM on the Sea-PDX shuttle returning at 9AM tomorrow

I'm kicking off the 2003 "Mileage Chase" at 8:36 AM on Jan 1st with a quickie AA AUS-DFW flight to catch the AA's DFW-FRA flight that afternoon. By end of Jan 3rd, I should be about 38,000 to 40,000 miles richer (and about 11,100 Q-miles toward Plat requalification). So I won't have the pleasure of seeing any 0's next year. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Have fun and have a great Happy New Year to everyone

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by UA_Eagle:
By end of Jan 3rd, I should be about 38,000 to 40,000 miles richer (and about 11,100 Q-miles toward Plat requalification). </font>

How? I usually only get about 25K miles on a Europe RT.

even worse for me as i am now driving to work and not earning miles.

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f

I have &gt; 50K miles ticketed for Q1. Still chance I will add another HKG trip in March.

The zero miles may inspire me. This year I waited until around September to figure out I needed 60,000 miles on UA to hit 1K and a lot of segments on US to hit CP. It was a busy November and December. I plan on spreading it out next year.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Mad4Miles:
How? I usually only get about 25K miles on a Europe RT.</font>

Actually it's over 41K miles. On my trip, AUS-DFW-FRA-LGW-DFW-AUS I should earn the following miles:

Base miles: 11,410
Plat bonus: 11,410
Business class bonus (out of 10340 miles in business class): 2,585
EURY4: 15,000
Online booking bonus: 1,000

Final total: 41,405 miles for $855 ($0.0206 per mile).

I thought I would have to wait for 10 Jan, but today my accumulations for 2003 were accelerated to 2 Jan. I will make sure to look for the zeros on New Years Day!

That's one thing I like about AA's system of scheduling "miles toward e-upgrades" counter to run until the end of February.

When the YTD qualifying miles reset to zero, at least I'll have the miles-toward-upgrades counter to re-assure me that I'm still a traveler.

It just happened. The zero is here. Happy New Year everyone.

I wanted to see my UA miles shortly after midnight Jan. 1 but get the message below, a Y2K+3 error http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif Still down 5 hours later.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
The system is not available. We apologize for your inconvenience. Please contact Customer Support at 800-589-5582 for further assistance. Or, please try again later. </font>


It started working
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
Account Number 0007961XXXX
Membership level 100K Premier
Year-to-date Premier ® qualifying miles 0
Original program balance 0
Current program balance 523959
</font>

At least I have the 500K miles to comfort me. I leave on a flight in a few hours so it wont be 0 YTD miles for long.

gfowler-ord-1k
Living in SIN


[This message has been edited by gfowler-ord-1k (edited 01-01-2003).]

Hahahahaha!

I started the year not with zero but with 2,000 miles from an expired set of 500-milers! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

On second thought, that's NOT such a good thing -- it means my upgrade requests never go through! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

And in any case, it does say: "Year-to-date Premier qualifying miles 0"

No matter. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif


Kathy

For a few hours each new year, we are all humbled by this zero balance, elites and non-elites alike.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Punki:
Every year about this time I start getting apprehensive, knowing that it will be just a few more days until all my accounts roll over to Zero YTD miles, stays and nights.</font>

I flew an MCI-DEN-SEA leg New Years Day and have my first Mariott and Hilton stays set up for Portland this weekend. So soon I will be happy again. ;-)

Well...at least I didn't have to face it too long...

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Mileage Summary

Account Number 00000000000
Membership level 100K Premier
Year-to-date Premier ® qualifying miles 2359</font>

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by PremEx (edited 01-03-2003).]