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*!
It took 25 years with 75% of the dollars coming from my work budget but about 50% of the miles coming from my personal budget. I flew an average of 25 flights/year with no family on most of the work flights. This is roughly one trip per month, not a killing pace except when these were not spaced out so evenly.
My wife earned her companion status this way.
I am more than halfway to my second million with most of those coming from my personal budget and my wife travels with me.