This will be my first full year with top status on any airline. Finished last year at 200,201 EQMs, 128 segments, and something around $9k EQD. All of that travel was personal sans two DEN-DFW-IAH business trips.
I will greatly miss doing mileage runs, and giving money to AA to fly just for the sake of flying. I've noticed their prices are much higher on the routes I fly then this time last year, so I have to be more conservative/strategic in how I fly.
Not looking forward to being punished for my low EQD spend, but at the end of the day, it's nice to have status on airlines, regardless of all the talk about being a free agent.
Here's hoping to a good 2017 (both on and off the ground)!