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Old Jan 3, 2012 | 3:45 pm
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msp2msy
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: New Orleans, LA
Programs: DL PM, AA Gold, A3 Gold, WN CP, and lots of points everywhere.
Posts: 344
After seeing blogs hitting on this, I did my own summary for a couple friends today. Here's an except. Note that this includes both my wife and me.

Earn and Burn Summary
Airline Earnings: 2,265,518
Hotel Earnings: 564,328
Credit Card Earnings: 735,860
Deduct Internal Transfers: -477,500 (Amex MR and Chase UR points earned, then transferred to airlines inflating airline #'s)
Net Earned: 3,088,206
Used: 1,499,100
Net Increase: 1,589,106

There are some small discrepancies (e.g. due to trades) that I'm too lazy to audit out through transaction histories but the numbers are petty darn close.

Re. points earned from flying and staying, I'd guess those to be no more than 250,000 points (mostly Delta), probably closer to 200,000.

Burning includes booking a large BA trip for 2 to southern Africa in first, a 3-stop trip on AA/LAN using AA/BA in business for 2012, and a LOT of domestic trips for my wife and friends/family.

Methodology Note: Balances do not include consideration of bonuses not yet received as of 1/3/2012 (e.g. due to statement not closing); speculative assets (e.g. UA Months of Miles); car rental points; misc coupons (sky club passes, companion passes, delta status nominations, etc). Points such as Airtran credits and old Southwest credits that were in much smaller units (e.g. 8 credits = domestic one-way) were converted to typical point equivalents. BA companion certificate valued at 225k (matching the primary ticket). Hotel point values vary substantially (E.g. $.025/SPG and $.005/Club Carlson) but were not adjusted.

Travel Summary
2011 included...
95 total flights on 8 airlines (Delta 76.3%)
Covering 104,420 miles (4.2x around the earth) to 5 countries and 29 airports (top 5: MSY, ATL, MSP, MEM, JNB/LAX). Includes award travel.
Taking 11.4 days (3.1% of my life last year was in an airplane - excludes airport time).
With an mean/average distance of 1,099 miles.
62 were in business/first class but only 5 included paying for the upgraded cabin. 33 were flown in economy. Only 4 were in a middle seat (and those probably next to my wife).

I realize these are small numbers compared to some but big numbers for me.
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