Hello All -

A friend of mine who is a self-proclaimed "mileage junkie" referred me to this sight. Well, I mentioned that I found an answer to something about flying on this message board and he exclaimed "FlyerTalk.com!" I am hooked. I am based out of CMH.

I am currently Silver Elite on NW and have been since the beginning of November. The amazing thing is that I started concentrating primarily on NW the very tail-end of August and reached Silver in a little over two months.

I am the director of entertainment for a restaurant and bar company based out of CLT. We have locations near DFW, CVG, DTW, RIC, PVD, BWI/IAD, CLT, and GRR. I have earned most of my status in segments as opposed to miles. I did some estimates and I fly roughly 40 weekends out of the year. If I fly roughly 65% of my flights on NW/DL, I will reach Platinum by the end of the year. I absolutely LOVE this website, although I wish there were some sort of compendium for all of the abbreviations in the vernacular. If there is one floating around here, please direct me to it.

Looking forward to getting to Platinum!

Chris O.