Midwest
I qualify for DL Plat by segments
Avg segment 700 miles+/-
United Prem on int'l trips(miles)

1) Do you qualify on miles or segments?
-- miles, UA Premier Exec

2) What region do you live in (East, Midwest, West, Europe, Asia, Mideast/Africa)
-- West Coast USA

3) What is your average mileage per segment?
-- 1725

>1) Do you qualify on miles or segments ?

Miles ( I don't pay attention to segments because I get lost after the first three months of flying.)

>>2) What region do you live in: East coast.
(the greatest state in the world, New Jersey!)

>>3) What is your average mileage per segment? About 2,000

> Do you qualify on miles or segments ?

Depends on the year. This year, it'll be miles. It's been segments when I flew lots of short (500-700 mi) hops.

> What region do you live in?

Boston, MA.

> What is your average mileage per segment?

1.5K.

Sanjeev

> Do you qualify on miles or segments ?

Last year UA 1K on sgements. This year UA 1K either way.

> What region do you live in?

Baltimore, MD.

> What is your average mileage per segment?

Probably around 500-700.

I don't worry much any more, either, since I became a million miler at Delta four or five years ago. I think I'd probably qualify on segments (not miles) for Silver.
I think those "Lifetime" status things refer to your lifetime - at least that's the way we're planning mine.

Philforest!!! Haven't seen you ages. How's by you?

Hmmm.....Most of you folks seem to go the segment route. Myself:

• Miles
• Midwest USA
• 3765 Miles per segment on average

Nailed down 1K again, 5 years running..........

As a non US resident - it's the miles method for me. International segments are dull enough anyway (16 hrs trans pacific) so they'd be unbearable if elite status was by segment only.

For the record - based in Asia, qualify on miles, average approx 5,000 miles per leg.

I am Platinum on American. So far this year, 110 segments for 114,000 miles. I agree that AA is sorely missing a segment or mileage qualification alternative for Executive Platinum. Often, domestic tickets over $1,000 still are treated as "discount" tickets and thus only acrue toward Exec. Platinum status at a 50% rate.

On AA I am a Platinum with 54K miles in 35 segments for an average of 1545 miles per segment. I qualified in July on miles.

Since I had no chance of making ExexP on AA, I went back to UA (I was PremEx from living in the Bay Area) and should make Prem on miles with 1315 miles per segment.

I live in Dallas--Southwest.

segments... living away from a hub with
USAir hops to a hub for almost any trip
tends to get the elites by segments...

San Francisco
United: will earn 1K this year, via miles (prior years achieved Premier Executive, also miles)
average segment = 2,420 miles (includes 6 Europe or Asia nonstops).

American: AAdvantage Gold for the first time, via the challenge (14,600 total miles for 1999)
average segment = 1,460 miles.

Being left coasters, we do miles for east/west airlines (in our case UAL and NWA) and segments for north/south (which in any sane person's case is ALASKA--the world's best airline after all). http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Platinum Elite/CO-94 segments this year

Texas

575 miles/seg