<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bwallet:
In contrast, I'll have Platinum status on NWA doing about 80k miles this year at an average cost of <$0.07 a mile for a whopping total of <$5600. Perhaps a lot for mostly leisure travel, but I'm in the same bucket as your dad. 
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Yes, but I think that we can both agree that, generally speaking, the Platinum bucket is more likely to be filled with higher-yield rather than lower-yield fliers.