Most EQM without hitting EXP EQD requirement?
#16
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Roswell, GA
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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)
(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)
#17
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Sun Prairie, WI
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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.
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: KHOU/KIAH
Programs: AA EXP | Marriott Bonvoy Titanium| Hyatt Globalist
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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.
#19
Join Date: May 2013
Location: SMF / SFO
Posts: 226
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
#20
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The reverse of this is also interesting: most EQDs without hitting the EXP EQM requirement.
#22
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: DCA
Programs: AA EXP; BoNVoY Tit LTP
Posts: 1,921
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.
#24
Join Date: May 2004
Location: DFW-In Plano & CDG-In the 11th
Programs: DL Diamond, AA revenue negative, Bonvoy Titanium +, Avis likes me
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#25
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXPLT
Posts: 99
Agreed. That ratio has been really consistent for me over the past few years with about 5,000 EQM's per EQS.
#26
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: DCA/IAD
Programs: AA EXP; 1W Emerald; HHonors Diamond; Marriott Gold; UA dirt
Posts: 7,811
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.
#28
Join Date: May 2004
Location: DFW-In Plano & CDG-In the 11th
Programs: DL Diamond, AA revenue negative, Bonvoy Titanium +, Avis likes me
Posts: 3,209
I have a very similar travel department.
#29
Join Date: May 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, LT Gold
Posts: 3,145
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.
#30
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