Originally Posted by
Yhztraveller
Lot's of talk about the folks who rack up big AQMs each year, but what about those of us who rack up the segments (AQS or equivalent). Someone described it as Comfort Warriors vs Road Warriors.
Looking for the number of segments you will fly in 2015. Doesn't matter if AC or other airline, and doesn't matter what class, or whether it was paid, or on points.
It looks like I will have 211 segments in 2015, which equates to 133 1-way flights.
About 202 of those segments were on AC, and would have earned approx 101,784 AQMs had they all been Flex purchases, or just over 500 AQM per segment.
As I fly on an unlimited flight pass I do not earn AQS or AQMs per flight. I have been tracking manually to prove that unlimited flight pass is cheaper than buying flex tickets.
If you count all airlines and any fare classes including reward flights, then I ran a ridiculous count - 280 and still counting (still 2 weeks left in 2015 right?).
That's a lot of time spent hopping from one airplane to another; from small Beechcrafts to A380s; from commercial airlines to FBOs. I haven't gotten tired yet. Oh, and if you think I qualified on segments, you're wrong! Almost one third of my flights don't count towards AQM, but I still qualified for SE easily on miles.
Next year, I'll probably rack up another 200 segments easily.