From SoCal originally, got hooked on FFP's flying back and forth to school on the east coast. Live in Hong Kong now working for a sporting good mfr. Averaged 180-200k miles per year for the past eight years (half of that sitting in the back!) but this may be the first year I have to work to reach 100,000. Both from personal experience, as well as reading this forum, have become the go-to guy in my company for how to squeeze every perk you can out of the system. Unfortunately, my company travel dept can't coordinate my travel as well as I can (I even find cheaper fares!) so I seem to spend a lot of time (more than I should!) booking my own trips. At least I can fall back on a career as a travel agent if I ever have to.

thanks to all the posters here for your advice and suggestions!