Home Airport: SFO/SJC/OAK
Occupation: Business Manager/Semicon Company
Travel: like to travel if have time, on business or in leisure.
Last U.S. Domestic Travel: SFO-JFK-SFO
Last International Travel: SFO-YYZ-SFO
Next trip: SFO-IAD-SFO

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My family, career, pictures.....

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Congratulations on the award.

I discovered FlyerTalk in 2004 after my first-ever (independent) trip from Australia to Europe. I had read in a Lonely Planet that it was worth joining a frequent flyer program and my travel agent recommended UA.

Bless them, because that Y trip to Europe yielded me enough miles for a trip to Tahiti 12 months later. Needless to say, I was instantly hooked.

By this point I was also working for a medical publishing company and managed to collect a decent swag of miles flying QF regularly for business (and a little bit of pleasure) as well as running a lot of expenses through my AmEx.

Since 2004 I have traveled through a small part of the US and the Pacific; spent time in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore and India; and am slowly combing my way through Europe.

Right now I am living in Vienna, learning German and working on a travel magazine for backpackers. Although my hotel brand of choice is Hilton, my work is rapidly making me a connisseur of backpacker properties!

Hello all!

I've been a lurker here for years, but only just started to post in the last year or so. Since all my travel is for pleasure, I felt a bit, well, like the retarded step-child

However, I've realized that most of you don't care, and are warm, wonderful, sick and twisted folk - just like me!

I'm 38, married, and living with my husband in Florida. I'm a CPA who prepares tax returns (individual and business), have my own art business (beaded jewelry, digital fantasy art and photography) and work full time at a medical devices manufacturing company as a Financial Analyst.

I have 3 cats and a dog (boxer)... each cat has a very distinct personality! I have recently taken my parents in after they retired, and the four of us live in (mostly) harmonic bliss.

I am an incurable anglophile, and travel there whenever I can. I fairly drool over anyone with a british, scottish, welsh, irish, south african, australian or kiwi accent.

I love flying, especially when taking off - despite always being in coach. However, some day I will be in First!!!

I am also a history buff, especially history from the British Isles. As a result, I like dressing up in medieval costumes with my friends We go to ren fairs, have events (100+ people) with full court and bardic circles, etc... fight eachother with padded swords... other strange things.

Love love love reading, especially scifi and fantasy, historical fiction. I also teach part time, and have a great time with that (accounting).

I have learned a ton about the traveling public (though I admit, I thought I knew it all from my years of flying). For example, you hate it when a crew cuts in front of you at security. I am not a "lurker" for the simple fact that it sounds quite creepy. Ask what you must, complain all you want, I will always smile and try to make it better.

Susie B. Stewardess

So hello!

I'm 30, female, grew up in California, went to college in the mid-west and have lived in NYC, DC and Australia.

Okay, maybe you can't hear my artificial Texas accented English, but here are my vitals:

Name: Robert
Location: Currently: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico (across from El Paso TX USA)
DOB: The same day and year that Elvis Presley died!
Marital Status: Single and looking forward to change it soon!
Occupation: Unemployed software developer looking for work.
Travel: Wish I could do more, but alas: I am fresh out of college and low on funds.
Last U.S. Domestic Travel: ELP-PHX-LAS-EWR-LAS-ELP
Last International Travel: CJS-ELP-CJS by foot across the Rio Grande in search of work
Next trip: ELP-ATL-EWR-ATL-ELP if I can find someone willing to co-sign a $8000 continuing education loan with me! :-)
Pets: Two cats: Simon and Cash. All jet-black fur, outdoors, and Simon drools too much!
Fun Facts about Me: I bait Nigerian 419 scammers who lurk on eBay, I am 0% Hispanic/Spaniard, and I am about 90% fluent in Spanish also.

Location: Seattle
DOB: More than 21 years ago
Marital Status: Single, and not allowed to marry if I wanted to, but still hoping to meet someone so I don't have to deal with the damn single occupancy supplement.
Occupation: Government Analyst
Travel: Yes. Whenever I can. Work is mostly to the nation's crapital, with other visits on occasion.
Last U.S. Domestic Travel: SEA-DCA-SEA (Big fan of AS 1,2,3 and 4)
Last International Travel: SEA-AMS-LCY/LGW-SXF-LTN/LCY-AMS-SEA
Next trip: SEA-ORD-DCA-ORD-SEA (slumming on UA as the AS nonstop was unavailable)
Pets: Two cats: Alex and Stasha
Travel Facts about me: Try to fly AS and partners -- I'm so glad the Eskimo is a code-sharing whore! Its taken me to Australia twice! I loathe Untied, I'm a magnet for bad ops...you don't want me on your Untied flight. Have visited 23 countries and 44 states (is there any reason to go to Kansas or Iowa??)
Ticket scores: Scored introductory tickets on AS to HNL and LIH for the fall, plus a cheap weekend to BTV courtesy of DL.
Thing I will change: I've never done a mileage run for mileage sake. I tend to add in a few days to poke around.
Non-flying factoid: Full Series Pass Holder at the Seattle International Film Festival.

any questions?

Hi Everyone.

I've been on FT for almost 2 years now and fell that I must introduce myself.

All my travel is leisure based and its mainly LHR-LAS.

I joined UA MP just over 3 years ago and built up a few miles and then *somehow* decided it wasn't worth collecting them and sticking to the same airline.
How wrong I was!!!
I discovered FT a few months after that thought and everything changed!!

Not long after I got a new job (an IT Trainer) that takes me all over the UK and Ireland, and bits of Europe.

Picking up on collecting miles and points I stuck with UA (making Premier for the first time) and Platinum in Priority Club.

Things got even better from there, with me taking my first ever TATL flight in C (thanks to info off FT), and even managed to takes my Mom in C to LAS.

FT paid off once more with me getting Royal Ambassador in Priority Club this year, and also making Premier Executive on UA (even though I've only flown 17K miles this year!).

More about me ... I'm 27, single and virtually live in hotels due to my job. I estimate I'll stay about 200 nights away this year from home. (And that's going easy!!).

I Love flying and all aspects of it.
My last international flight was LHR-IAD-BOS, where I got a Travelzoo rate at IC Boston.
Asked by a friend why I went there, I replied 'Because it got me 1P on UA, more miles on UA, plus points in PC, and on my way to RA'.
Needless to say he looked at me with a confused face.
It was worth it to me!!

Next Trip: LHR-SFO-LAS (Sep19th) ... Cant wait!!!! - Once again, thanks to FT (Savage25), I'm riding in C all the way there and back.

Next planned Trip: Not quite sure, but planning to burn all my miles on a trip to Japan/Asia/Thailand somewhere for me and Mom.

Have met a couple of FT'ers out on their travels and want to meet some more!!

Happy travels, and once again, thanks FT ... I'd still be riding in Y TATL, and having to pay for the mini bar at IC's if it wasn't for you all!!!!

User ID: Rejuvenated
Location: Toronto (Richmond Hill), Canada / Hong Kong, SAR / Auckland (Manukau Suburb), New Zealand
Occupation: Corporate part owner & Sales/Marketing
Travel: 70% work-related, 30% leisure
Last International Travel: AKL-SYD-SIN-HKG
Next trip: HKG-SIN-LHR-SIN-HKG

Hello everyone, I just joined the forum and I thought this was the thread on which to introduce myself.

I'm French but live in Cork, Ireland.

I loooooove to travel and discover new cultures, I have been a US Dividend Miles member for 14 years now (and still not even Silver Preferred !!) and US Mileage Plus for two; my travelling has been mostly between France and the US, which I love.

Dream trips: drive coast to coast through the US and stop everywhere to make new friends. Cruise to the North Pole to see the bears. Fly to Japan and see Fuji-San and blossoming cherry trees.

Looking forward to know you all !!!

Updated today:

You can get ALL the Who we all are up until today (in Excel format) at

Who We All Are Spreadsheet

Found this board a few days ago...never was serious about miles but now...I am a believer

User ID: NRTHNL
Location: Tokyo, Hawaii or Houston
DOB: 10/2
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Consultant M&A alliance mgmt
Travel: hop, skip and jump...aanywhere and everywhere my job takes me
Last U.S. Domestic Travel: OGG-HNL-OGG-HNL-IAH
Last International Travel: IAH-NRT-IAH-SMF-IAH-HNL
Next trip: NRT-IAH-HNL-OGG
Pets: Cat- more visa's than most humans- a true world traveler

I am sure I will make elite durring my next trip and am very excited about being in the game, again....

Well after so many posts and finally just now coming to this thread im Tom a 23 year old from Ontario California that is a day trader and a fitness nut that also has been upsets with aviation for over 20 years, yup ever since I was 4 years old!

Alright here it goes:
I've been a lurker and member for a while but havent' really added much except for a trip report. I am married with two small kids. I am a yank living in Australia working for a US defence contractor. I love to fly but it only happens these days when I can afford it...it isn't cheep to move 4 people around. I fly mostly American, Qantas and United although I haven't flown United since I was in the US army some 4 years ago.
My last Domestic (in Australia) trip was from ASP-Mel.
My last international trip was ASP-SYD-DEN-SDF-ASP in international business and AA first.
My next planned trip is Aug 10th from ASP-OOL via ADL and AUG 26th BNE-ASP.