college student elite roll call
 

it came up in a recent thread and i was just curious to see how many elite college flyers there are

I'm not an elite, but I know someone who went to Oxford University, and flew back home to Chicago to visit his parents about twice a month, all in paid F (on his parents' tab no doubt). After 2 years of this craziness, he made GS. He'll probably lose it after he graduates. I'm assuming it's not a lifetime designation like MM status?

I am a Stanford phd grad student in Electrical Engineering. Have been doing a long distance relationship with my wife who is a phd student out at Harvard for almost five years. She prefers to fly JetBlue (which did offer a lot of great introductory $79 fares between BOS and SJC/OAK/SFO back in the day) so she is not an elite.

I have flown mostly on miles earned by family until this year where the amazing prices (and desire to accrue my own miles) have induced me to make my own status run. Currently a 2P but will go from 3P->2P->1P->1K->(1.5k maybe) this year.

Also ringing in from Stanford :D as an electrical engineer :p, I'm a 1P, who is requaling for 1P. Story is somewhat the same, my girlfriend is a student across the country at William and Mary, and I'm originally from the east coast as well. I'm considering making a 1K run, but... I don't know if time and money allow/I don't know how much of a benefit I'd get from being a 1K. SWU's wouldn't do much for me, as I'm pretty much all domestic.

Ringing from NYU :D but econ major. I'm not a UA elite, actually not even a member, but almost OZ Club Gold (about 800 miles short :( ). :) Considering I fly out of the bay area, my choices are limited to UA....and US Airways.

Upper midwest, mechanical engineering major. Was a 2P in 2007, AA Gold in 2008, and now a nothing.

I'm sure it won't be long before lucky pops in here and puts us all to shame with his experience and knowledge as a young elite....but anyway, I'm a recent college grad (Wake Forest '08) and have been a 2P for the past 3 years, almost all on my own dime (a few family trips on US that the parents covered), but I'll be requalifying in a few weeks on a MR to SEA....maybe shooting for 1P this year....

I was a senior mechanical engineering student at Virginia Tech (class of '06) and managed to get freqeunt traveller status with Lufthansa that year, started flying United for work right after that and was 1P in 2007 and 1K 2008, and thanks to DEQM and working in Saudi I'll be 1K again by August...

Oh, hi! :D

I first made 2P as a sophomore in college, made 1P as a junior, and finally 1K as a senior. I've kept 1K for three years of law school, and will be graduating again in May. And I recently matched my UA status over to Gold at NW. (I should have done it before Delta tightened its grip on WorldPerks...lucky got matched to NW Platinum by doing it before the policy change!)

Ohhh so that's why you fly SFOtoBOS so much! But your wife flies JetBlue???

I'm moving this to CommunityBuzz! where all college elites can weigh in.

iluv2fly
Moderator, UA

I'm an engineering student at the University of Nebraska and have never been elite before. Thanks to the DEQM promo, however, I should be 1P by the time those extra miles post. :) In the meantime I'll move up from GM to 2P in May. Not really sure why I've been flying to Europe so much in the last year, but all the better!

Yeah. JetBlue's reward program hasn't worked out so bad for her in the past. Flying BOS-BayArea R/T 5-6 times a year and flying BOS-SEA (my parents) once or twice added up to 1 to 2 free R/T tickets a year which she could use for expensive Thanksgiving and Christmas travel dates. Their program is basically ideally optimized for this level of domestic travel. This past year it hasn't looked as useful due to less availability for rewards and sadly JetBlue only flies the BOS-OAK route to the Bay Area now. (the least useful!)

Also the approximately 1.5 years of staggered introductory fares between BOS and SJC, SFO, and OAK saved us a lot of money.

I'm a graduate nursing student at Yale (class of 2011). Will be a 1K by miles next month.

The $45 Connecticut Limo ride to BDL is a pain, isn't it? And a cab costs $100+!

I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore. BOS is accessible by subway for $1.70, or it's a 30-minute cab ride for $40! So much easier and cheaper to rack up miles out of BOS. Kudos to you for managing it out of BDL.