Back to the specific thread topic, I found this comment that
Randy made a couple of years back on a post about a guy with 2.1 million miles on LH.
Randy was himself using years old figures so one assumes these numbers have leapt up significantly in the intervening years, so 25 million in one plan does not surprise me at all, and I can bet there are others that would exceed that:
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Originally posted by Randy Petersen:
In research a few years back, I calculated that there are over 107,000 people who have earned at least one million miles in a particular frequent flyer program.
Delta I beleive has just over 20,000 such members and you can guess that AA/UA have substantially more than that given the alliance picture they were into first.
2.1 million, my guess is that there are at least 32,000 such people out there ......
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