Clearly I'm behind the times, though I could swear I had them on my flights last year. But who knows, it's been so long.

I'll be driving Houston to Destin this Friday. Any report on the remainder of the route?

It's been a while since I've seen them on NW. 2006 is probably right.

Thank you, sir. I try. :D

Alas, no conspiracy. The longhaul SVO-HKG segment did post this morning, though. OSL-SVO-HKG...a hair over 15K RDM for a little less than $400. Sweet :D

ALCO, your total BIS for 2008 makes me extremely jealous! :p It's only late May too!

I'm just over 40k right now...

Aside from my July 4 IAH-FRA-CPT-FRA-MXP-JFK-MIA-IAH, I don't think it will go too much higher. Unless there are some more premium cabin mistake fares in the coming months, I doubt I'll be doing too much longhaul travel for the rest of the year. I'll probably use my pair of $200 UA Vouchers on some Q-UPs before year-end, likely on a decent (though not great) IAH-ORD-ABQ fare that UA has been offering for some time.

Also, though not the best fare in the world, I noticed This on FareCompare YUP search yesterday. Note the fourth fare from the top...SEA-YXE (Saskatoon) for $813 as an MUAUP fare. I can't seem to find that fare on KVS, can't get it to price at that rate on United.com, and can't get any routing rules. If anyone knows what the deal is with that fare, I'd be quite interested in knowing. Saskatoon sounds like a fun place to fly to in F for the heck of it.

I am at 46K, it will be slightly over 50k when I finish the ATL-POS run, but I will not have anything close to the otter's total.

What is POS - Person of Size? ;)

You still have me pretty impressed as I know you have mentioned you do this all via leisure trips.

I keep a steady pace through the year and just eek past 75k in December. I am dying for a long haul though - it's been a few months!

Sounds like an exciting location for a DO as well! :D

Pot-stirrer :p

Got lucky at the end of last year. There was a bonanza of mistake fares and good Q-UPs, so I front-loaded 2008 with lots of travel. Given the present state of the airline industry and fuel prices, it's not something I expect to occur again. I'm happy with the results of the freak occurrence, though. :D

Getting to plat for 09 before june is my new personal record,
Now I may try to get a BD match and try to rack up some miles before they go .

I have to agree with that, I did a lot of runs at the start of the year, but not much now. I don't really expect much though as it gets into the summer travel season. I have been looking at fares for the Astros DO in Aug and it is 326 ai ATL-IAH on DL (CO is in excess of 400 :eek:). I may do UA through ORD for 340, if I can get some UA certs off of ebay for a decent price.

I may try to go infinite on UA, by flying then complaining about something and getting a cert to subsidize my next flight on them. The ATL-LAX in F fare seems to be gone, I can't get it to route through IAD anymore.

I really only want to do *A long haul as I do not have status on UA or US and riding in Y on those airlines seems sub-optimal when I can get upgraded on CO for the same route.

Working on 1 mile? Often, they're working on only 5 feet of pavement, yet still one-lane for 20+ miles. And 45MPH speed limit.

You know, there's been some amazing advances in anti-psychotic medications in the past few years. If you need a referral or anything I can probably help.

In other news, my EQM's for this year are pretty low. Only 18k on CO, which is probably the lowest its ever been on my "carrier of choice" since I started my "professional life." It's diluted thanks to some trips on other carriers, but mainly my company has been shying away from travel thanks to the cost of everything.

Only 2 trips booked for June so far. Both only East coast hops. :( Probably one out to the West Coast at the end of June, another definite in July, and then - uhm - who knows. I'm confident I'll make Plat for 09, but it probably won't be until Dec. and I might have to fly to SAV for Christmas via IAH to accomplish it. :rolleyes:

The nature of my job is I generally don't know where I'll be more than a week in advance, so there's a possibility I could have over 100k EQM's by Sept. But, as of right now, all is quiet on the horizon. :(