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January 1993 joined AAdvantage @ age 36
1M somewhere around 2000
will make 2M this year
mostly bonus and CC miles, very few BIS

Latin Pass 1M took a few weeks of flying, many months of follow up to get my miles

About 1.4 million BIS miles, mainly on LH,BA,SQ.
Adds up to about 4 million FF miles in various programs. (Of which I have spent next to nothing...)

1998 age 34
2008 hit MM (butt in seat)

Joined 2000 M&M - now I have more then 2M !! :D

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Originally Posted by steve32 (Post 9879407)

Nov 20, 2002 -- joined AAdvantage

Jan 30, 2006 -- 61k program miles, found FlyerTalk while doing general search for cheaper ways to accumulate FF miles.

May 24, 2007 -- crossed 1MM program miles threshold

So you did 939,000 miles in 16 months? How?

Joined MP in 1982,
Made MM in Februay 2007

Dave

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChicagoUnited (Post 9881868)

So you did 939,000 miles in 16 months? How?

Probably the same way I went from 280,000 miles to 2MM+ in under two years...signing up for every promo, mileage running, iDining and prodigious use of AAdvantage and SPG credit cards. I was also helped along by close to 700,000 miles worth of the finest shelf-stable swiss cheese money could buy...all of which (save one wedge) was consumed via a very grateful food pantry.

Quote:

Originally Posted by steve32

Nov 20, 2002 -- joined AAdvantage at age 37

Jan 30, 2006 -- 61k program miles, found FlyerTalk while doing general search for cheaper ways to accumulate FF miles.

May 24, 2007 -- crossed 1MM program miles threshold

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChicagoUnited

So you did 939,000 miles in 16 months? How?

By taking advantage of as many promotions as I could in the 25th anniversary year, thanks to FlyerTalk. 2006 flying netted me more than a quarter million RDM at 0.9901 cpm. There were lots of other promotions, I think with my taking top honors in earning RDM through Dining Rewards (at least for one who doesn't drink wine) averaging a very nice 22.4 miles/$ (and buying enough gift certificates to last a year!), and even winning 20k miles from AA marketing as the September 2006 Mileage Maniac grand prize winner (and yes, I included it in my income taxes--still came to less than a penny a mile).

I'm really bummed I couldn't find any of that Swiss company's cheese (that was in their AA miles certificates promotion) within two states of me. One guy scored nearly 700,000 miles off that for about a penny a mile!

My goal is Lifetime Platinum status, so I play the game a little differently than most here who are doing it for high status to make their business flying more comfortable. Thus I only shot for the 75k EQM level for the extra 15k RDM Platinum bonus, rather than going for 100k EQM and ExPlat status like most other AA FlyerTalkers here.

Without that exceptional anniversary year, and after using most of the one-time only promotions, my rate has been more normal. Currently at 1.3MM, not counting the potential miles that haven't yet been converted from Starwood points and Marriott Rewards points.

Compared to most others, it's pretty obvious from my FlightMemory maps and repetition stats that the majority of my flying has been Mileage Running. ;)
Steve