crazy path to platinum
 

Am I completely crazy ... as of november 22 I had 34614 EQM
In the next 27 days I will have flown 41341 miles to get to platinum : dubai for the weekend (for fun), vegas for one night (business), hawaii for the weekend (stayed saturday night), and the following weekend flew back to hawaii and puddle hopped to maui. and to get the last few miles day trip to fort lauderdale ... I hope platinum is worth it !

just thought you guys might find it funny !

Welcome to FT!

Have a great time. I think you'll enjoy Platinum.

Thanks. We had a blast doing the trips. Plan a lot of travel for work next year - start up company - and I still have family in the UK - so frequent trips to LGW from EWR !

There is a wealth of information on the site. You guys are great.

No this is not funny, we take this sort of thing very seriously here. Platinum status is a lot of hard work.


:D :D Just messing with ya.....welcome to Flyertalk. Yes, Platinum is worth it, enjoy.:)

If you fly a lot, say about 200k a year, I'd make recommendation: don't fly with Continental alone. I'd split it between Continental and American. Once you hit Executive Platinum on American, you get upgraded to business a lot--they fly business class on transcontinental routes and some key routes into and out of DFW and ORD. It's worth it. Going forward, I plan to fly 75k on Continental and the rest on AA.

btw, just thought I'd share my experience of KLM : great airline

flew KLM from JFK to AMS then AMS to DXB on the thursday night of Thanksgiving.

The purser on the flight came round with the passenger manifest, acknowledged that we were sky team elite (only silver at the time) and spent 5 - 10 minutes just chatting with us. nice touch.

fantastic service on KLM, complimentary alcohol, and nice touch. glass of wine with dinner makes a flight go much faster.

Sorry... got ya beat by a few miles... ;)

22 Nov 2006 - 27,264 eqm

18 Dec 2006 - 78,581 eqm

Thats 51,317 miles in ~25 days so what is that ~2,000 miles a day!

2006 Elite Qualifying Miles 33,671 Right now.
If every flight is right in the next 15 days, I will be plat 2 hours before Jan 1.:D

I did much the same thing, but early in the year. Platinum status has been a huge disappointment...so far. I have all of 2007 to make a better assessment of that. We'll see.

I'm no thezipper, but

10-27: 27,780 EQMs
12-26: 75,079 EQMs

Love that LGW P-club!!!