Originally Posted by
yultraveler
I wish I could but all tickets need to be booked by corporate TA which will then pay for the ticket directly. I really hope the new Aeroplan/Altitude program will make earnings more balanced; I would hope that if you qualify for SE with 95 AQS on AC metal you would earn around 100,000 miles. For example, spending USD$15,000 (CAD$20,000) on UA as a premier platinum would net you 135,000 miles.
If you are SE, you get 250mile minimum (* class of service bonus) per segment.
I guess you could fly back and forth to Ottawa 95x a year and get as little as 0 miles (and 0 segments), or ~ 5,938 AQM on 95 segments, (+ 100% for around 12,000 spendable aeropesos), but that is pretty pathalogical.
If you are flying enough to get 95 segments and you aren't getting at least 150k spendable miles then you should have a long talk with yourself about the abuse you are willing to take from your companies trave policies.
This applies slightly less so to your own travel with some significant goal of cheap status gaining.... And people don't do that on segments.