Hi folks,
I'm not quite sure if this is the correct forum, as I intend it to be a series of trip reports, but I am putting it here because it is solely United travel.

This story hopefully lends a different perspective to mileage run tails. I fly a lot, yet this is the first time in about a year and a half that I'm actually a paying traveller. I work for an airline, so I normally fly as a "non-rev." There have been a lot of promotions in the airline industry recently, most notably the Double Elite Qualifying miles promotion put out by a number of airlines.
I was quite interested when this came out, as I had recently booked a trip to Rome on United ($212 roundtrip!) and with that trip worth close to 20,000EQM I would be just one transcon leg short of earning Premier Elite status.
As I started reading more into the forums here, I realized there were more deals to be had...for example the Boston-California Triple miles special, as well as tons of extremely low fares. I had also been interested in taking a trip to Asia, and put this altogether I got to thinking, why stop at Premier...why not shoot all the way to 1K.
So thus began my quest to 100,000 EQMs on United. My plan is built around the trip to Rome (20,000EQM) and a trip I then purchased from LAX-SIN (with all of the connections it should be worth around 36,000EQM). I plan on filling the gaps with transcons to push me to 100,000.