Longest mechanical delay this year on NW was ~30 minutes while they towed a replacement aircraft over to the next gate for us to use.

Several cancellations on DL jungle jets. In 2 of the 3 I was rebooked on direct NW flights, upgraded, and still collected the DL mileage. In the 3rd case, I ended up on the next CVG-STL flight (thank you, Skyteam Elite standby priority).

One significant mechanical delay on KLM AMS-ATL.

Add a few assorted weather and air/ground traffic delays that I can't blame the airlines for.

That's a decent record for 85K actual miles with 20K left to fly this year (counting award tickets). Well, I guess it's not really 85K since I'm counting 2.4K DL miles I didn't fly.

Mike in Mpls.

Apologist at Large