It would seem that most of those are from opening new accounts and meeting minimum spending on multiple cards which is probably a reason your Ink+ is in pending. That's an "aggressive" churn of accounts to get points that most people won't do or won't meet the spending on to make it worth it.
Most people take a year or two+ from starting research to booking a J or F trip. For me I am entering buying a condo so don't want so many hits at once on my credit but want to get points so my churn was 2 cards instead of 4-5. It's working well for me but your plan may be working well for you but everyone's plan will be different.
Originally Posted by
PineappleFart
It will not take a few years for him to redeem one RT ticket from LAX to NRT. I've accumulated the following points in the past 3 months:
70k Starwood
76k UR (50k more if my Ink+ ever goes from pending to accepted
85k MR
130k TYP
One RT ticket on Krisflyer will take 160k that he can take from any of those transfer partners. His only problem then is the waitlist, and if he has an extremely flexible schedule, that's not exactly a problem.