Originally Posted by
munjalm
Were CR-1's not give for CO or US or any other *A EQM in the past???
No, just UA metal.
Originally Posted by
fastair
My own number crunching says if u made 1k at 100 segments and 70k miles, you paid less that the same flying with 100k miles, as you had to buy more tickets and more segments to hit the 100k miles. That math is irrefutable.
I respect your opinion on a lot of topics but your math is way off base here.
Most segment flyers spend a lot more per ticket for multiple connections because they have to rather than simply adding segments for the sole reason of achieving status. For example, I did DEN-ORD-PIA-ORD-MKE-DEN because I had to visit customers in both Peoria and Milwaukee the same day not because of a $69 fare sale. (IIRC that trip alone was close to $900).
My own example: 104K EQMs and 104 EQS - qualified on both miles and segments. Number of tickets bought in 2010 was 30 (only 1 international) which is an average of 3.47 segments/ticket. My average ticket price however was $550.
From what I gather in this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...become-1k.html my total spend for the year looks to be right in the middle of the pack.
I did not go out of my way to tack on extra segments but I did add 2 PS transcons and a SYD trip which skews my EQM number higher than it normally should be. The PS flights were both sub-$300 and the SYD trip was a tware for $700. On a cost per mile basis, my trips are much higher than a discount flyer. I also think my travel pattern is fairly typical of the average business road-warrior type.