Originally Posted by JFKLGA30

Funny -- I have like 103k miles, and I am taking a weeklong vacation next week spanning both weekends, so with the Double Qualies, I'll be to 115k and then I'm out of weekends. i just can't do it. I mean, I could, but I just can't. I'm out of vacation days, I've got to fly to Miami on the 18th, Atlanta for Christmas. I've put off my New Year's trip to Vegas til Jan 1 to start the 2010 clock with fresh miles. I would end up being like 2k miles short. I just ran out of time.

To be completely honest, I didn't know about the 125k thing until September, and I just ran out of weekends. I was at like 41,604 when they announced this 2nd double miles promotion, and I made 4 straight weekend trips to Vegas to get qualified, had a wedding in the sticks in France in there for a weekend and I took two London trips during the first promotion, so getting ExPlat wasn't expected until this second promotion. Given that I have a fulltime job that requires zero travel aside from 1 trip a year to Asia, getting 85,000 miles in 1 quarter was a daunting task. But if I had another weekend, I would have gotten it. Trust me, my stomach churns over this, but I wouldn't be able to use all 10 anyway.

I need my job to feed my travel habit, you know?