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May 28, 2015, 9:09 am
#271
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May 28, 2015, 9:11 am
#272
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But remember, they'd be quite happy if you didn't meet the metal requirement and got bumped down a tier or two as a result, so it's in their best interests to not make it easy
Jun 1, 2015, 7:00 am
#275
Join Date: Jan 2015
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Ding 100k as of Friday, May 29th.
miles: 107598,
segment: 22,
aircanadaMiles: 75050,
aircanadaSegments: 14,
My travel varies too much for me to estimate, but I'd guess my segments will go up as I do less long-haul/TPAC for the rest of the year, and I might wrap up around 140-160k.
miles: 107598,
segment: 22,
aircanadaMiles: 75050,
aircanadaSegments: 14,
My travel varies too much for me to estimate, but I'd guess my segments will go up as I do less long-haul/TPAC for the rest of the year, and I might wrap up around 140-160k.
Last edited by epiphani; Jun 1, 2015 at 4:51 pm
Jun 11, 2015, 1:02 am
#276
Join Date: Nov 2013
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With no joy at all about achieving it, passed 100k on June 3rd. Incidentally, one of the worst service levels I've ever received in paid J (Europe D flight pass).
No flight scheduled at all until July 7 on BA and no AC flight foreseen until Christmas. I am enjoying time on the ground, off work, with family. My homeless time was fun, but I'm even more glad that it's over. ^^
No flight scheduled at all until July 7 on BA and no AC flight foreseen until Christmas. I am enjoying time on the ground, off work, with family. My homeless time was fun, but I'm even more glad that it's over. ^^
Jun 17, 2015, 12:06 am
#277
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I'm now booked to cross the 100K AQM barrier somewhere around Iceland on FRA-YYC on July 12th.
By my standards, this has been a ridiculous year - I had under 101K AQM the past two years, qualifying for SE on December 30th both times, which was the most flying I've ever done in a year.
I now find myself facing what I've decided to name Dorian's Dilemma - to continue flying AC/*A or not? I'm contemplating a TATL in Q4 and thinking I should just do it with KLM - ~$5200 vs ~$6500 on AC/LH or AC/BA. Historically I probably would have just paid the premium to stick with AC, but now, why bother?
At most I could see myself getting to around 150K AQM, but there really doesn't seem to be much incentive to do so.
By my standards, this has been a ridiculous year - I had under 101K AQM the past two years, qualifying for SE on December 30th both times, which was the most flying I've ever done in a year.
I now find myself facing what I've decided to name Dorian's Dilemma - to continue flying AC/*A or not? I'm contemplating a TATL in Q4 and thinking I should just do it with KLM - ~$5200 vs ~$6500 on AC/LH or AC/BA. Historically I probably would have just paid the premium to stick with AC, but now, why bother?
At most I could see myself getting to around 150K AQM, but there really doesn't seem to be much incentive to do so.
Jun 17, 2015, 11:39 am
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Jun 17, 2015, 2:49 pm
#281
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Jun 17, 2015, 4:41 pm
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That is the bare minimum for someone who had status when they started (if you have no status, then doing something like YYJ-YVR until early qualification will net you fewer AQM, but let's keep this simple).
So I can EASILY see how people might actually qualify for under 20k AQM.
This is exactly the reason why I expect to see fractional AQS sooner rather than later.
FP routings aren't allowed to be special anymore because of "segment runners". But segment runners don't use flight passes. Or Flex fares. They fly YYT-YYJ in 9 segments for $300 in Tango. They get maybe 1000 AQM, but 9 AQS.
Jun 18, 2015, 11:41 am
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At 79,842 AQM and no travel planned until September I am seriously considering organising things so that I cross the 100K mark after November 1st. I have 40 eUp credits - will get 10 more on my next trip - but if I can hold off crossing the 100K mark until November then the 20 credits I get then will be valid until Feb 28, 2017. No way will I hit 140K so what's the point of doing more than the absolute minimum? Of course those credits might be worth even less than now next year with the anticipated enhancements for next year 
Jun 18, 2015, 11:45 am
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At 79,842 AQM and no travel planned until September I am seriously considering organising things so that I cross the 100K mark after November 1st. I have 40 eUp credits - will get 10 more on my next trip - but if I can hold off crossing the 100K mark until November then the 20 credits I get then will be valid until Feb 28, 2017. No way will I hit 140K so what's the point of doing more than the absolute minimum? Of course those credits might be worth even less than now next year with the anticipated enhancements for next year