Originally Posted by
Tigerotor77W
Are there any MM here who haven't earned most of their miles through their work?
examples:
- 4x RT East Coast to Asia per year might be around 50k LT miles per year, so twenty years at this frequency / route would be needed to hit 1MM
- 25x RT from ORD-SEA per year -- that's twice a month -- is maybe 120k LT miles, so even that would require unfaltering bimonthly trips for almost a decade
What type of travel budget (work or personal) -- and what family situation -- allows for decades of nonstop travel and time away from "home"?
I have a hard enough time hitting 3k PQP this quarter to requalify for 1K next year, let alone spending every other weekend traveling for *ten years straight*!
edit: Not a MM (yet) but I had posted without reading the most important qualifier of your post.
Most of my travels are of the personal variety. I have 82K+ BIS on UA travels alone this year so far; wholly domestic itineraries. I seek out cheap fares (upgradable coach and/or cheap J/F fares), not just UA, but other carriers as well. I don't travel every other weekend, I just bunch all of my travels together - e.g. February 5 - 14, I flew 31 segments during the period, accumulated 31K BIS acrosss UA, AA, DL, AS, spent all of $1K on those 31 flights, and sat in coach only 6 of the 31 flights (almost all of those 6 were really short flights, and some were regional Y only jets).
I took almost the entire summer off, mostly because of ridiculous prices.