Thanks for the welcomes everyone, a great open forum you guys have here and I'm thrilled to have found it.
Originally Posted by
davetravels
I say this, as I sit on the taxiway at JFK, on a beautiful CRJ-900, in seat 3C, made of fine Corinthian faux-leahter, whilst we wait out a 40 minute ATC delay enroute to ORD.
Ahhhh, yes. I'm surrounded by luxury, which means the FA is making us drinks, compared to pre-poured cups of water 2 rows back & beyond. She even threw in the snack basket as a nice little touch, but I suppose that just means less to choose from later!
Oh the luxury!!! LOL
Originally Posted by
Sez_Who
Not sure that chasing status has value for many people but what is this 'limited flying' you are talking about? If you can't pick up 25K MQM's a year through flying and/or cc, you reset to zero each year. IOW if your flying is really limited, you won't have to worry about chasing status because you won't hit even the lowest level.
I believe I can pickup 25k MQM every year from my flying. I may need to go on a couple more/longer flights than normal but on average 25k would be attainable for me. Couple that with my future plans for the Reserve Amex and with my spend I'd be achieving GM status on a "normal" year. I think that is one of the soft goals, maintain Gold (and see how deep I can get in to possibly go further once I learn to stop spending so much on tickets)