Originally Posted by mfirst

I am 230k away from 1MM - and, especially with the pandemic - it might as well be a zillion miles.... I am traveling domestically at in UA metal and will make 1K this year (6th year in a row) and I think I barely picked up 50k BIS.... 100K BIS miles if you are not traveling international, is a lot (for example - many of my flights are DEN-ORD are that is barely 1,000 miles) of trips.... even if the minimum that you get is 500 BIS for a leg, we are talking about taking 200 segments x 500 miles/trip to get 100k BIS miles......even transcond requires a lot of traveling...... the reality is discouraging.

I am sticking with UA for many reason (and not worth getting into on this post) but it will be years and years before I get to 1MM - if ever given how my flying patterns have changed.... and even if/when I do, it is unclear what those benefits will be and whether I will actually find them useful...but as someone else posted, in this day and age, it is nice to have a goal.....