Originally Posted by
Powers106
If the top 1,000 all fly over 300k miles...how many Diamond members would you guess they have? How many Platinum? Even in terms of percentage of passengers I'd be curious.
Well, the article does give some clues, at least for the Diamonds:
...At Continental, about 20,000 travelers out of its 20 million frequent fliers qualify for the new uppermost tier.
This is 0.10% of all flyers on Continental.
...Delta, which has 75 million frequent-flier club members, says it has not calculated how many qualify for the Diamond level, but notes that its top 1,000 customers each fly over 300,000 miles a year.
If the math is similar at both airlines, then the number of Diamonds would be ~75,000