Originally Posted by Dudemon
I have earned over 1 million ff miles and points since January 1st. 663,407 are miles and 379,257 hotel points.
While the separate things are nice, you didn't state what hotel points!
If you're talking about most any other hotel points other than SPG (Starwood), which are the only ones that I know to convert about 1:1 to miles, the average value of hotel points (with programs such as HHonors, Priority Club, Choice Priveleges, etc) is about 1/5 that of miles, since it takes 5 points to covert to 1 mile.
And even if you don't convert, it's hard to find anywhere near as high-valued a use for a hotel point as a mile that's used to redeem for long-haul international flights in above-economy classes.
Therefore I think it's misleading to add them together and treat them as one number. After all, if you had earned 1,047,967 miles and 0 points that would be a completely different valued than if you had earned 0 miles and 1,047,967 HH/PC/etc points.
IMHO, adding them together is sort of as if you had said "I earned 300,000 in a combination of US dollars and Japanese Yen so far this year." In USD, that would be very impressive; in Yen it would be nothing to brag about, and without knowing the exact ratio the sum would be just as meaningless as the sum in the title of this thread.