Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
Quoted & removed very faint text color. As above could not read (on a laptop)
What you want comes/can come with high level status. 10 round trips in economy very unlikely to earn mid-top status.
Getting upgrades on international flights is a long way from certain. And generally only on the airline of your ffp. Star Alliance and some airlines have cross airline schemes, but requires a very high priced base economy fare:--useless for many people. Depending on the airlines some economy fares are not upgradeable. So do not expect upgrades. International PE is a separate class of travel.
Listing what ffp's you are a member of now and balances would help.
Thanks and I'm sorry for the color. I used Dark Mode and didn't realize that the color was faint.
It's possible that I have 25-40 flights including non-round-trips, but it's highly variable. I can buy upgrades with my own money, so it doesn't have to strictly be economy all the time.
Post-pandemic traveling for work just started again for me, so not much going on. But here are some current numbers:
- AA: 39,427 award miles (only 171 loyalty points) (from credit card bonuses a long time ago)
- Korean Air SKYPASS: 8,731 miles
- United: 7,852 miles
- JetBlue TrueBlue: 1,178 points
- Delta: 9,545 miles
- Flying Blue: 7,500 miles until 09/2023 (I didn't realize these would expire... I transferred them from AMEX but didn't end up needing them yet)
- Avios: 14,297 (also from AMEX and not ended up using much of it)
- Miles & More: 500 M (and have some credit that I need to use with Lufthansa)
- Swiss Air: Status miles 7,118; Award miles 4,212
I also don't mind using credit cards to help. Had Chase Sapphire a long time ago and haven't resurrected it (still parking a lot of points in a Freedom card). Also have AMEX Gold. I'm ready to add more cards and was thinking of the Venture X.