ProTexana

I think you have a good problem! I would love to have all that paid business travel

In regards to your signature, why do you want Expedia.com to die?

jaynyc

Could you tell us your secret how that is done? I've tried the PowerBall Lottery. It has not worked for me.

grumpymonkey

Managed to squeeze out plat with six weeks to spare. Not bad, considering that I lost plat last year and had to do a challenge to get it back. Of course, I got completely screwed because of cheap fares on BA (to JNB via LHR) and on Iberia, where I only got a small fraction of the miles that I thought I was in for...gotta read those rules for one world partners better next time...

whirledtraveler

Yeah, that's a bummer. I'm at 120K and I have a boatload of travel in December. Reaching 100K takes all of the oomph out of it for me.

joe52

24,976 miles flown towards retaining my lowly gold status.

I might have another trip in December, but it looks like I may not be able to fly AA (mid-week trip where I may not have time to deal with connecting flights). I'm probably going to sit around and hope that they'll let me keep my gold anyway (I know they have in past years) but I'd feel better (not enough better to take a day out of my life for a MR) if it was a sure thing.

RChavez

With my current travel booked, I estimate that I will requal for PLT by 4 miles. That's of course assuming that Sabre's mileage calculator matches the AAdvantage mileage calculator.

I think it's probably worth the call to AA to make sure.

rbAA

Crossed 100k in July, going to or coming from a nephew's wedding in NJ. Currently:

EQP 109,126
EPM 125,407.

All pleasure. One more trip, for AA, this year so should end up at 110k EQP and 126k EQM. The rest is going into Asia Miles, as did some CX J travel this year.

How about a 25k carryover for the next year?

wherenext

Hit EP again a few weeks ago, no more travel until January now. Time for family.

mmgm

Reached 100,000 this week. 2nd time as EXP.

Athena53

Went over the 25K mark with our trip to Scotland last month. I don't do a lot of business travel so it's always a bit of a stretch to get Elite on even one airline- but we made it this year and next year looks good, too, given the trips I already have planned.

MJonTravel

Have hit Gold for the year, but am going to come up short of PLT. Can hope they offer buy-up, I suppose.

Gardyloo

Re-qualified as Plat in September, sitting on 72K pts. Thought about a bunch of MRs to push for EXP but couldn't justify the time/money.

Then herself says, Oh dear, our trip to finish our RTW to Israel/Turkey (March) is going to get smushed because of work.

To which I say, Well, what about blitzing it in December, since (a) work is slow and (b) we could both make EXP if we took the long way there and back by New Years?

She didn't say no or words to that effect (stronger stuff usually) so am now awaiting reply from BA in Istanbul with pricing for the (planned) follow-on RTW that might now start in December instead of April. VIPs and other goodies for New Years are now possible. How cool is that?

Thank God for debt.

SirFlysALot

Due to the curse of Flyertalk, my employer now has me working locally. After Platinum for the last 5 years (Premier Exec on UA for years before that ), I qualifyed for Gold in March.

Darn

j3823x

You can also use aa.com's reservation system to find out the miles by pricing an itinerary. Hopefully nothing gets shortened between now and the end of the year.

CharlesMD

I completely understand! With the requalifications completed in the summer I was thinking of just resting. Then the bossman served up a whole heap of travel and I'm like dang, I wish there was a rolling requalification window, since I'd complete the 2006 qualification year in January!

Don't you hate it when you plan your requals to cut it as closely as possible and then you have to go over! Too bad we can't donate our EQMs to my gf or a FlyerTalker in need! There'd be a lot of EXPs!!!

P.S. Thanks panjabi for bumping up this thread!!!