3.5 trillion miles
 

There are an estimated 3.5 trillion miles outstanding among all frequent flyer programs.

I pulled this off of best fares web site. 3.5 trillion outstanding miles! Divide that 25000 for a flight to get 140 million flights and multiply that by say, conservatively, 300 dollars per flight, to get 42 billion dollars. Obiously, people blow more than 25000 miles on average per flight, but even if it was 50000, it would still be 21 billion in outstanding "dollars". That's quite a bit. Just my $0.02.

That's why airlines love putting capacity controls in every way they can. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif So that they could even increase the amount of unredeemed miles. To say the least, they don't expire any more.

- Pat

That is a lot of miles... I cannot remember where I saw it recently, but I believe I saw where Randy was qouted (and I am paraphrasing and apologize to Randy if it was not him) that if the travelling public was able to redeem all the saved up miles, we could all travel free for 37 days... or something like that.

Good thing about those restrictions... would hate to see the airlines allow us to all to fly free!!!

William

I wonder how many percent of those 3.5 trillion miles that FT members have?

Good question. I've got 84356. Next?

I have 121709, so the sum is 206065. Next?

I've got 112,254

I have ~190,000. The total so far is

508,319

Are a lot of those points in accounts, that are TOO small to qualify for an award?
And in the old days, TONS of miles expired unused. I bet there are a lot of people with totals of less then 10,000-20,000 miles.
So how many total miles are there, that are a threat to the airlines pocket books?

My household can account for 232,000........

New total:

740,319 miles

[This message has been edited by fscher (edited 04-11-2001).]

I've got 223,000.

Total now
661,065 miles

household of 4 (Gisela, Maria, Susanna, Rudi) and each is in 3 ff-progrmas (miles&more, Mileage Plus, Qualiflyer): 1'238'112

Total 1'899'177

267,886 in UA plus orphans everywhere, maybe another 60,000 on AA, AC, CO, DL...

I don't count to well, I would need to take off my shoes to figure this out... Help?

Wait, does points from my Aeroplan Visa count? About another 100,000 there.

273,000 mostly on UA, US and AA. Then some orphans on DL, HP and NW).

Brings a total to 2,172,177.

And to help out for Village Idiot's lack of math skills, http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tongue.gif his 327,886 bring the total to:
2,500,063

I've got another 300K, 199K with NWA, 60K with DL, and the rest cats and dogs.... (and just used 170K, so unfortunately can't count those on this poll)

Plus add another 40K for my wife....


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