Originally Posted by
Concerto
I have never met any of these silly targets and no longer receive these offers. It's a shame that these M&M offers give me absolutely no motivation.
I haven't received one now and looked back at previous ones. The period they use to determine these miles seems pretty short as they vary wildly. Last September they sent me a target of 20k status miles to get 6k award. Last summer the target was 52k status miles for 15.6k award miles. These are for 3 month periods. And definitely, they've always been solidly in the "no way, what were you thinking?" territory. It makes even less sense now to try to gun for status miles since if you optimize for those you are likely to get a pittance of award miles.