Well, after 1500 EQMs for seeing off the final DC-10 flight, I unfortunately couldn't justify spending $1800 instead of $500 to go SkyTeam Hawaii-Europe OW, so I had to settle for no useful miles on that. But I'm not going to be stuck at 1500 for the year forever!

On non-leisure trips alone (as listed in my sig), I should hit SE by the end of April, and be somewhere in the 35-40K range by the end of June. But I've already got some leisure travel booked too - 4 short segments in late February will get me 2K EQM. I'm seriously considering continent-hopping in late March to the tune of 8K, and between April, May and June am looking at possibly repeating that trip and/or doing a US trans-con for about 5K, and/or doing a run all the way back out to Hawaii from either NYC or Europe for 10-15K. So there's a very real possibility of being GE by summer this year, instead of by December.

It's all going to come down to 1) what I can afford, and 2) whether I can travel anywhere and earn money to defray the cost of traveling there.