If my math is correct this time (I messed up in another thread, so take it with a grain of salt), then in your example it's only 50,000 miles left in a year. That's less than 1,000 a week so one short commuter flight should take this person above the one million mark with ease. Not saying that doing the first 950,000 would be easy!
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by csb:
No Way; it's 19,231 miles per week. Even giving somebody a complete long-haul benefit of the doubt, they don't make it.
If somebody in Chicago needed to be in Hong Kong on even numbered weeks and Cape Town (via LHR) on odd numbered weeks--returning to Chicago in-between, with no weeks off, that's only 950,000 miles
It also would average out to 35 hours a week in the cabin. Counting airport time, jet lag, ground transportation, eating and sleeping, how much work could they possibly accomplish?</font>