tom911

You know the rain eventually had to come to SFO. It's expected Thursday, Friday (with gusty winds), and probably into the weekend. A good site for the local forecast: http://www.ktvu.com/s/weather/

2millionquest

When this amazing month of flying is over, I plan to work the spreadsheet to generate every kind of stat I can think of. Those include upgrades by each day of the week, by time of day (most likely in one-hour chunks or something similar), by route, by flight #, how many people used alternative means of upgrade (SWUs and miles+copay), and anything else I can think of.

I also plan to generate some numbers related to popularity of routes/flights, frequency of irops, how many people made a run from 0 to EXP and how many were successful, how many just went up one or two status levels, how many asked for and got ORC, all kinds of things.

We all talk about all these things in an anecdotal fashion on a constant basis. I'm hoping to be able to provide some firm factual data that can be used in these discussions in future.

ILuvParis

Sadly, there must be two or three EXPs who are not FlyerTalkers and their stats won't be available.

BUR Regular

Flew in to ORD from LAX on 2004...arrived early. In AC waiting for 1455 ORD-LAX which has been delayed for 1h35m...now a 4:35 departure with arrival at LAX at 7:00p...not really complaining...UG on 2004 and 1455 and sitting in the AC reading posts on FT and MP about our adventures!

2millionquest

While that is, of course, true, you may be surprised to learn that there are three people currently on our list who do not belong to FT at all (I recruited them from a similar thread currently running on Milepoint) and another half dozen or so who are FTers and have PM'd me their info but who have never actually posted on FT. There are also people on our list who are friends/coworkers/significant others of FTers but who do not themselves belong to FT. I've also been zealously contacting anyone I see posting on FT or MP who mentions that they're flying between the TEQM cities and asking if they'll let me have their data. Of those people, one turned me down flat and three have said they'll share after the month is over (all for privacy reasons). The rest have shared their data.

And I can guarantee you that if I meet anyone on my flights who is not an FTer or Milepointer, but who is willing to share flight info, I'll be adding that to the list as well.

I'm doing everything I can to make this list as comprehensive as I possibly can. While I know our list will never even approach 100% of all flyers (particularly those without status), I believe it's a higher percentage of flyers than some of you want to credit.

arollins

I'm not sure if others have mentioned, but the tickets that I've bought are for 2 people, both of them are EXP. I think that we are the only EXP couple that are travelling together, under the same PNR #.

HNL

Questions:
- How will you have status for 5 years? Are you counting soft landings in there? Your profile says you are a LT Plat.

- How are your going to get 10+ SWUs out of this?

2millionquest

Not quite. I think you are the only EXP couple, but there are at least two other couples traveling together where one is EXP and the other is traveling as an EXP companion.

AAce

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Who was the FT member on flight 1341 from Chicago to San Fran in 5B on Sunday?

nitrobass24

Well according to the first post it was probably **richtravels

AAce

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Not today. I was talking about Sunday 1/15

2millionquest

Actually, richtravels was on 1341 today, the 16th. Sunday was the 15th, and there were 5 of our participants on that flight, at least two of whom sat in FC. As to who actually sat in the seat mentioned upthread, the spreadsheet doesn't contain that info.

nitrobass24

Deeerrr, i get my days mixed up since i dont work on Mondays

AA_EXP09

I first qualified for EXP in 2009.
I had EXP in 2009, 2010, 2011, and have it now, in 2012.
As I will have well more than 100k EQM by the end of the month, I will have EXP for 2013 and 8 EVIP.
I also plan on doing an additional 50K EQM's for 4 more EVIP.

869

Cancelled travel on 1575 (DFW-SFO) and 2042 (SFO-DFW) on 1/15 and 1/16 due to delays resulting from medical emergency on board AA flight #69 MAD-MIA 1/15.

869 now departing DFW on 1575 (1/18) and returning on 2042 (1/19).

SWU upgrade on 1575 from previous int'l flight transferred to new date. Submitted UR on 2042 on 1/15 and cleared to X inventory within minutes.