Originally Posted by
drewguy
Indeed . . . unless you live where you regularly fly <500m flights to a hub it's almost irrelevant. and even then it barely makes a dent in your MM accumulation.
It should be noted that
SPNLifer spent much of his traveling career 129 miles from the nearest UA hub.
As an AUS-based traveler, I have logged 198 AUS-IAH or IAH-AUS segments on flightmemory.com, and I bet I've missed dozens from before I started using the site. As AUS-IAH is 140 miles, that's 71K extra lifetime miles out of my 1.4MM total -- about 5%.