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Old Jun 25, 2019, 1:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Dallas49er
Travel department that thinks it's their $?
The travel department is my wife and she does a great job.. just tell her about when I need to go, she will find me the cheapest J
(even though I have told her I am willing to go coach and try to use some SWU at least to LHR... what a lovely wife)
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Old Jun 25, 2019, 3:55 pm
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Originally Posted by Nuhusky
It amazes me the fares you all find. I’m barely touching 50k eqm but spent $14k to get there. My $ spend though is putting me right at the top of upgrade lists though

ill be well north of $20k-$30k by end of year and just make 100k eqm
Yeah I seem to be at the opposite end of most people as well. I'm at just over 70k EQMs and at $14k in spend. I had one international paid J roundtrip and another coming up which keeps the spend high. I also seem to have some varying domestic flights. I have my share of 3k EQM trips that cost $300 and then I had a 3k EQM trip last week that cost $900. Just depends when I'm booking mostly.

I've also seen upgrades a bit more frequently lately although pretty much any hub to hub still has me anywhere from 5-10 on the UG list at the gate.
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Old Jun 25, 2019, 4:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Nuhusky
It amazes me the fares you all find. I’m barely touching 50k eqm but spent $14k to get there. My $ spend though is putting me right at the top of upgrade lists though

ill be well north of $20k-$30k by end of year and just make 100k eqm
I'd be curious what the EQS count is too. Its the short last minute flights that rack up the EQD.

I'm at 17k EQD, 73 EQS and 140k EQM. The EQM is boosted by trips to PVG, SYD, NRT and MAD that cost a grand total of 1500 dollars. Its those last minute domestic flights that cost a fortune.
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Old Jun 25, 2019, 4:52 pm
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I'm flying quite a bit less this year. I'm at 67,849 EQM, 27 EQS but only 5,854 EQD. With my current planned travel, by September I will have easily cleared 100k EQM but will be at about 8-9K EQD. Probably going to need to do CX SFO-HKG-AKL or something like that in W to retain with the minimum spend going up to 15K
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Old Jun 25, 2019, 5:20 pm
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The reverse of this is also interesting: most EQDs without hitting the EXP EQM requirement.
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Old Jun 25, 2019, 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by Dallas49er
OH! If you hit 150K in EQMs, you get 2 additional SWU's.

Just sayin'
which you most likely will not be able to use!
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 2:56 am
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Originally Posted by Nuhusky
It amazes me the fares you all find. I’m barely touching 50k eqm but spent $14k to get there. My $ spend though is putting me right at the top of upgrade lists though

ill be well north of $20k-$30k by end of year and just make 100k eqm
Similar here; I will be around $9K and 50K EQM this weekend and should roughly double those numbers for the year. Not much domestic Y flying so I have no idea where I am on UG lists.
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 7:59 am
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I'll end up this year probably 110K EQM tops and 18K spend. Just enough to secure 4 SWU's and my rightful place in 7A

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Old Jun 26, 2019, 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by enviroian
I'll end up this year probably 110K EQM tops and 18K spend. Just enough to secure 4 SWU's and my rightful place in 7A

You also forgot that you will be number 1,834 on the upgrade list!
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 9:10 am
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Originally Posted by SeattleDavid
I find that a ratio of 10:1 fro EQM:EQD is very stable for my international travel. So, I am currently expecting to reach 15 000 EQDs as I reach 150 000 EQMs.
Agreed. That ratio has been really consistent for me over the past few years with about 5,000 EQM's per EQS.
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 9:37 am
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Back in the day my goal was to hit 25,000 EQMs in a year (or what ever US Airways called it) and spend less than $1,000 doing it. Managed to do that a couple times.
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 11:12 am
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At the end of my next trip I’ll be at 90k miles and 8k EQD. The 3k from Barclays will bring me up to 11. I suppose I’m going for plat pro spend with EXP miles
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 11:44 am
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Originally Posted by fotographer
The travel department is my wife and she does a great job.. just tell her about when I need to go, she will find me the cheapest J
(even though I have told her I am willing to go coach and try to use some SWU at least to LHR... what a lovely wife)
I have a very similar travel department.
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 2:15 pm
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I'm at 105K EQM and $11K EQD right now (15 EQS). I have a couple more TATL trips, and should get $6K / 10K from the Barclays card before the year is over. So I should land around 130-140K EQM and $19-$20K EQD. Just enough to be ahead of enviorian on the UG list.
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Old Jun 26, 2019, 2:57 pm
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Originally Posted by fotographer
cheap J tickets to BOM, IST, ...well mostly BOM (that was early part of this year.. July will be my first trip to BOM in about 3 months)
If you don't mind me asking, which partners/routings and rough cost? Always looking for cheap J routings.
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