Originally Posted by
st_claire
I was thinking that if next year I can hit the 30k with *wood (my income will be going up significantly next year, so I expect to be able to do this then), that would give me 75k AA miles. Add 15k for flying as you said, that's 90k per year. So 11 years. Do you think it will be around that long? It would be a huge shame to work hard for the million mile mark and have them cancel it.
How does 30k of *wood points correspond to 75k AA miles? The transfer rate is 1:1 with 5k bonus per 20k transfer, implying 1:1.25 SPG:AA over the long term. That's an overall average of 37,500 per year, not 75,000.