Good day all.

I was wondering if the million milers can tell me how young they were when they started with their respective FF program.

For example, how old were you when you signed up for AAdvantage or Mileage Plus and how old you were when you hit 1 MM.

1989 35 years old

2005 51 years old

United "HARD" BIS

1 million BIS or credited miles?

I'll pass 1 million credited next week on NWA. I signed up for their program in 1998, but only started flying a lot in 2001. I missed being elite because of 9/11, and only barely made silver in 2002. 2003+ I've booked 100K BIS miles min every year since on NW or partners, with another 20-40k in free tickets or other airlines too.

AA started in 1985 at 30, but mostly flew twa til they went bust, hit a million AA miles in 1995 and now at 3.9 million

I made easy over 4 million (bonus, not status) miles with LX (swiss) Travelclub (that became now part of LH's miles&more program), profiting from last years promotion of a swiss Supermarket chain (Coop Switzerland), that did let points from that chain exchange 1:1 into swiss miles. It took me only 2 months to do so (profiting from extra bonus points from the chain, and trading points on auction platforms like ebay� and Ricardo�).

So I started at age 62 and finished with over 4 Million miles at age 63 ...

I will be (talking status now) a life long LH (miles&more) Senator (Star-Gold-level) on march-3-2008 (age 65, I did start with miles&more in 1998 at age 55). To become a LH life long Senator you don't need 1 Million status miles, but: > 60 years old, must be a current Senator, and must have been a Senator for the last 10 years (to qualify as a Senator you only have to make 100'000 status miles every second year, as status is valid 2 calendar years - so if you start at age 50 and do 100'000 status miles every second year, you become a lifelong Senator at age 60 with 'just' 500'000 status miles.

I should probably clarify. Thanks Jaimito Cartero.

1 MM for whatever your FF program recognizes. For example, all sources for MM on AA, only BIS miles on UA, etc...

Make sense? On UA I only have 990,000 miles to go.

If AA is the model for "million milers," I've accumulated more than a million Delta Skymiles since joining the program for my honeymoon flight in 1993. But I've spent a lot of those miles, too, and quite a few of them were either status bonuses or credit card miles or other bonuses. Delta's "million miler" program requires a million flown miles (or at least it does now -- during the early part of my Skymiles membership, it counted elite bonus miles as well. But in that progam I'm still just under 500,000.

I hit 1MM with Delta in 1991 at age 27 and the 2MM mark in 1996 at age 32. All the Amex and bonus miles helped, but it was still lots of flying...Hitting the 3MM mark sometime in 07.

Well over 1MM in LH M&M but they do not recognize it, oh well.

Anything but BIS miles doesn't count, in my book

USAir - started 1990, age 25. 1 Million by 2001.

I have flown over 1,400,000 BIS miles on NW since 1994.

My total program miles with NWA is 4,649,723 Total Mileage Since Enrollment.

RC

...but the miles I still have in my UA Mileage Plus account have just (yesterday, see the thread in the UA Forum) devalued by approx. 25% ...

I started a job 10 years ago this month that has had me traveling 200,000 to 325,000 miles per year. So I think I'm pretty close to 3 milllion miles over those 10 years. However UA is the only airline I use that keeps track of lifetime BIS. I passed 1 million BIS on UA last year. I guess I've flown between 500,000 and 750,000 separately on LH and BA and over 500,000 on AF/KL. The rest are on a host of other airlines.

I was 33 when I started keeping track of miles on UA Mileage Plus. It was 1986.

Sixteen years later I became a BIS millionaire on UA.

1989, Delta, age 33...took couple yrs to hit 1M(flew a lot,
worked the program very extensively).
Down to 75k old miles, 15k new miles, gave these to my sister to use
for a Euro trip, but be sure to do it quickly...

What are the benefits for your loyalty?

RC