I'm AA Platinum and Delta Gold Medallion.

Qualify by: Miles; segments would barely get me to the first tier or even just miss it

Live in: Boston, Mass., USA (East Coast)

Average mileage per segment: About 2,000 on AA (trans-Atlantic and trans-continental flights); 1,500 on Delta (have to change to the West Coast)

AA: If you're listening, I'd drop Delta and focus on you if Exec. PLT wasn't so far out of reach for anyone who uses discount coach tickets - or if you offered some other real incentive partway there.

AA - miles (gold)
Live in central Florida; where your destination is only a connecting flight away.
Average 800 miles per segment (unless, of course, I'm connecting in MIA)

TW - DOLLARS (Elite)
In my opinion, TW has got it figured out. Those of us on this board, especially, know that one can earn elite status for a relatively low cost. TW grants elite status based on miles, segments or dollars spent. I've spent over $8K on TW this year but that only adds up to about 13K miles. Still, they gave me Elite after spending $5K. If only BA and AA would do the same...

Cheers,

'toad

Flying out of East Cost (BDL-Hartford).

Silver Elite with CO by segments. Made most of them in 1 trip (18 segments in 9 days). Strictly domestic travel.

Avg. miles/segment = ~725.

This year was a bit unusual in that almost all my trips were TX/LA. Normally it is spread throughout the country.


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Flying out of the Gulf Coast (MSY)

Gold on DL Three years running, qualification by segments. This year my average segment length (in base miles, not actual miles) has been only 593 miles.

Elite qualification on miles AND segments
Pacific Northwest
Average segment 1,200 miles

Since CP only gives half miles on a discount ticket, I qualify only on flight segments. Averaging about 300 miles/segment.

Gotta love that infinite Elite on CO OldGold!

I get it from miles but have in the past done it on segments (definitely the hardest way--short hops, very frequent travel to the least interesting places).

West (Canada).

Segments (USAir-all leisure travel)
East coast
< 200 miles average per segment

DL PLATINUM- 20 transatlantic segments
AA PLATINUM- miles, usually to south america
AC ELITE- miles (triple qualifying - too easy)
new this year - NW GOLD (by thanksgiving) - miles - trips to asia

i live in nyc area - everybody offers some sort of deal that makes it interesting and affordable to qualify.

made (sep-99) LH-Senator (100'000 status miles) with just 24 segments.

UA 1K (1998: 102'000 miles)) with miles (and about 40 segments), this year (99) PremEx (planned 47'520 flight miles plus 2'500 ORD delay-credit http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif) with about 25 segments.

Just qualified for Platinum on Canadian,
86,400 miles from 38 Segments this year.
Based in Winnipeg, Canada.

Stewart.

(all #s based on *A counting toward UA)
BASE Miles to date (mid october): 87,256
Segments to date: 66
Average BASE miles per segment: 1,322.06

Will finish year (assuming nothing changes at this point) with 103,346 miles on 75 segments, for an even higher average of 1,377.94 per segment.

The base total and average were brought up significantly this year by Asia trip and two trans-Atlantics. Taking those out, average base plummets to 949 per segment.

In order to maintain 1k, I'll have to do asia again...Anyone up for a bangkok mini-FT convention this spring????

Matt - I am in BKK april 17 (late) to 22!

Isn't that Holy Week, Rudi?

... not for Buddhists ...

(I am there with part of my family)