AA 2018 year in review

Old Dec 20, 2018, 7:40 pm
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Originally Posted by cova
With EXP at 103 times to Sun - but assume an average of say 130,000, then that would mean around 75,000 EXP. Not sure if times flown to the sun is one way or round trip. If RT - then double the numbers ie 150,000 EXPs. And not sure on the average - could be lower maybe 120,000.
I don't think there's enough data to pick an average number miles for EXP because, unlike levels below it, the number of miles flown by an EXP is unbounded, you could have people like me at 67K miles flown and others who are in the 200K+ and we simply do not know how many of each exist.
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 7:47 pm
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Join Date: May 2018
Location: PHX
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First year flying AA and OW

241 hours in the sky.
5 times flown around the world.
18 destinations visited.
PHX-LA-ORD most visited destinations.
LA-HKG longest flight.
A321 most flown
Earned EXP 8/23.
Top 11%.

Not sure if this is low/avg EP?
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 7:58 pm
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276 hours in the sky.
8.5 times flown around the world.
29 destinations visited.
KUL-LHR-DFW most visited destinations.
DFW-HKG longest flight.
B737 most flown.
Earned EXP 4/28.
Top 1% of EXP (but no CK invite?!?!)
341,166 bonus miles from elite status
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 8:35 pm
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17 hours
4 times around the world
LAX-SYD was longest
Flew 787 the most (I dont remember flying it all this year)
Top 3% of EXP based on miles flown

Most of my travel this year has been on MH commuting in J from AKL to KUL weekly (but only since November). I ended the year with about 113k EQM. Cant believe thats top 3%.
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 9:16 pm
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Im platinum and no email.
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 9:18 pm
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67 - hours in the sky
3.5 - times RTW
5 - destinations visited
LAX, DFW, HKG - most visited destinations (DFW is strictly connection only - haven't been to Dallas or Fort Worth ever)
Dallas-Doha - furthest flight
777 - Most flown aircraft
75k - Bonus miles received from elite status
London, Paris, Rome - top 3 international award destinations for EP members
5+ upgrades received
$75 - checked bag savings
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 9:18 pm
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146 hours in the sky.
4.5 times flown around the world.
11 destinations visited.
SFO HKG most visited destinations. (SFO is home port)
AKL-DOH furthest flight.taken
B777 most flown.
Earned EXP 11/23.
Top 16% of EXP
76,209 bonus miles from elite status80,000 reward miles redeemed for flights or upgrade

5+ upgrades received
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 9:43 pm
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Top 1% of CK members based on miles flown. 340k EQM.
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 9:58 pm
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Okay, how about this? Post Top % if you have it, and #times around the world

A pattern emerges, though there is one outlier already.

gary_nj, C17PSGR, potus18 and nrr posted a Top % figure but not their # times around the world.

Nov11 posted # times around the world but not Top % - maybe didn't get that info?

I think the # times around the world is roughly corresponding to BIS. They indicate in the email that flight miles include partner flights. We already know the correspondence between BIS and EQM is going to be fairly variable based on premium travel.

Based on what's been posted by about 845pm PST, the top 10% is in the range of 5-5.5x around the world, say 125,000 miles BIS. If I'm Top25% at 3x around the world, and razzaba is 1% at 8.5x around the world, you can already see what the distribution looks like.

As I posted earlier the clear implication is that within this Tier at least, a majority of members have BIS < EQM by 33-100%. This is likely to be true in the Plat Pro and Plat levels as well-- not sure about Gold. But probably, given the conversion to dual EQD/EQM requirements.

The outlier is bpauker, who posted 4x around the world but top 3% in miles flown.
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 10:04 pm
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1% of EXP, and 8x around the world.
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Old Dec 20, 2018, 10:52 pm
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Originally Posted by fanger
A pattern emerges, though there is one outlier already.

gary_nj, C17PSGR, potus18 and nrr posted a Top % figure but not their # times around the world.

Nov11 posted # times around the world but not Top % - maybe didn't get that info?

I think the # times around the world is roughly corresponding to BIS. They indicate in the email that flight miles include partner flights. We already know the correspondence between BIS and EQM is going to be fairly variable based on premium travel.

Based on what's been posted by about 845pm PST, the top 10% is in the range of 5-5.5x around the world, say 125,000 miles BIS. If I'm Top25% at 3x around the world, and razzaba is 1% at 8.5x around the world, you can already see what the distribution looks like.

As I posted earlier the clear implication is that within this Tier at least, a majority of members have BIS < EQM by 33-100%. This is likely to be true in the Plat Pro and Plat levels as well-- not sure about Gold. But probably, given the conversion to dual EQD/EQM requirements.

The outlier is bpauker, who posted 4x around the world but top 3% in miles flown.
Sounds right my top percantage was 18 with 4.5 trips around the world. I had a couple SFO-LHR trips on BA in there and assume theyre not being counted, but shouldnt make much of a difference.
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Old Dec 21, 2018, 12:38 am
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Originally Posted by potus18
Sounds right my top percantage was 18 with 4.5 trips around the world. I had a couple SFO-LHR trips on BA in there and assume theyre not being counted, but shouldnt make much of a difference.
I had 4.5 trips too but am apparently top 17%.
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Old Dec 21, 2018, 12:57 am
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Originally Posted by potus18
Got this too. 221 hours in the sky, here

Not keen on the FB/Twitter share feature at the footer, though. It shares a link which renders identically to the email, including AAdvantage tier and member number. Not really cool for AA to share publicly.
These also expose your email address if you share them on Facebook or Twitter really bad, AA.
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Old Dec 21, 2018, 2:11 am
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My email doesnt say where I fall %wise amongst EXP. odd.
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Old Dec 21, 2018, 3:27 am
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4.5x / top 19%
rough calculation of MM earnings = 111,225
EQM = 187,449
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