Originally posted by rmccamy:
. My initial reaction was something like "Why? It's not like I'll ever fly twenty-five thousand miles. That's, like, around the world or something."
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I thought the same thing and let 6,000 UA miles slip by. I'm not one of the billion milers like some on this board, but now I get meaningful credit on any airline (enough to almost reach or go over 20,000 mi.) and 6 figures on a few airlines. I earn miles the hard way, by flights.