After crossing the million-mile BIS mark recently, I requested from M+ for a detailed record (purge data print) of my M+ activities from the first day I joined M+. I wanted to find out how many flights I have actually flown as I did not start tracking my flights on Excel spreadsheet until three years ago. Here is some interesting statistics from my United travel:
First Flight: MIA-LGA (7/24/1992)
Total # of Segments flown: 349
Average Miles Per Segment: 2,877 (I flew a lot of transpac and transcon)
# Paid C or F segments: 179 (51%)
# Paid Y segments: 170 (49%)
# Upgraded Segments: 166 (48%)
# of Upgrades from C to F: 80 (48%)
# of Upgrades from Y to C or F: 86 (51%)
# of segments in C or F: 265 (76%)
# of International segments: 166 (48%)
Transit through NRT 69 times for total of 138 connecting flights without entering Japan once.
IIRC, there were flights that never got posted and there were also flights I never flew got posted. For example, I couldn’t possibly fly IAD-CDG twice on the same flight on the same day; or flew SFO-NRT and NRT-SFO on the same day. Overall the missing BIS miles and additional BIS miles credited seem to cancel each other out.
It was a huge printout that included all the miles I have earned from hotel, credit card, Sprint, MCI, hotels, shopping, rental cars, etc. I skipped reading that part totally.
After going though my records, I gain more respect for flyers such as
Robotdoctor who reached MMF status and maintians annual 1K status on segments or domestic flying only. I just can't imagine myself making 1K on segment or domestic flying only.
I would highly recommend anyone here requesting a copy for yourself as a piece of your flying history with United. As I looked through pages of flights, I could actually remember most of the flights. For example, trips to my own wedding, birth of my child, school reunion, important business deals, job interviews, memorable family vacation trips, etc.
Thanks United for all these great memories!
Also, a special thanks to
MP Goddess for providing me with the information needed to get these printouts.^ Details in the following link:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...0&postcount=38