If this is any help.....I am E for the 2nd time this year. First time I made it in 2002 I went from being a nobody (i.e. not even P ) to E in 3 months, which was a lot of travelling for me then. Even then I missed the E cutoff, which was 30K miles....BUT I ended up being 29600 and they comped me. I've thought after that because my travel was extraordinary in the fall that finished off the year that they gave it to me and because the difference was <1K.

Just my experience.