Originally Posted by
embarcadero1
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the tier points/mileage thing. I’m finding it hard to figure out when I’d earn Gold given my current travel patterns.
You will soon get the hang of it.. Basically it's about 38 flights (not bookings) to get Gold if you are doing shorter sectors in First / Business - you'll soon know your 40 and 140 times tables! If you are doing trans continental USA flights such as JFK-SFO, you would need 11 or so such flights, 5 or 6 return trips a year. If you're doing a mix of say 3 longer return trips and 9 shorter flights then you're over the line. Things like BOS-DCA-CLT gets you 160 TPs there and back, so it quickly adds up.