Originally Posted by delpreston
May I ask, when earning on one's own dime, is it generally leisure travel? Or travel for family, personal business, love for planes?
I'm wondering when I'm done flying for my work if I'd be able to keep any status at all.
When you have relatives who live on the opposite coast and overseas, it's quite easy to earn status on one's own dime. Also, when your friends are scattered about, it's you often meet in a mutually convenient city to vactation together rather than visit one another in each other's home cities, to which you've already traveled many times.