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I have spent about 300K miles, mostly given away to family.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MileKing: For those spending that much in a few months or those spending in the millions, my only question is not how did you get that many miles, but where do you find the time (vacation time) to spend that many and still fly enough on paid fares to retain elite status? I can understand if one takes a family to SYD in first class that miles spent go up rather quickly, but trips to SYD are not usually weekend events. Have some of those miles spent been used for business travel as opposed to leisure travel?</font> Hello Mileking, I have spent the 930 K in the past 6 month on three trips for between a long weekend and a max of 10 days. Bearing in mind that working in Germany has its upsides such as 30 days paid holidays p.a. part from a suitable number of public holidays. They were lesiure trips always for the misses and myself sitting upfront. In terms of collecting, I generally have one to two returns a week - mainly domestic and some intraeurope - almost always in C - because the price difference for one or two day trips generally is about 10 - 30 €UR / US $ (yes, I am liberal with the exchange rate http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif) and every second trip is with a connection, that I generally in the year qualify double for the requirement of retaining elite status http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif not that it is worth much - at least with LH M&M - apart from the guranteed seating - which I find invaluable - and makes it worth to stick to LH. Cheers Thomas |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by maple: I don't know about fellow loyAAl flyer Fewmiles, but I seem to have a big problem! I do not plan on spending a single mile till I get to 2 million miles in the account... and that's like yeaaaaaars away! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif So, yeap, also a grand total of zero miles spent!</font> |
As Carl Sagan used to say when asked about how many stars there were in the universe: "Millions and millions." Which about sums it up for me, having collected these things since they started back in the early 80s. And thanks to these programs, my significant others and I have seen pretty much all of the world, something that would not have otherwise been possible.
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probably about 3.3 mil. currently have about 600k available.
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About 2.5 million so far mainly for Europe trips from LA over the past coupe of years for family and myself
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Not anal enough to track it, but the UA website shows -570000 in the "Other" total column since Jan 1 2001.
I know I spent 250K of my AAdvantage points this year (because my account, she is empty!). I also estimate that I've spent 90% of the miles I've earned... [This message has been edited by skofarrell (edited 06-13-2002).] |
About the millions, for us it is actually well over 5 million spent if we include Amex and hotel points. We signed up for our first FF programs in 1984. Until recently
littleleaguedad earned 85% of them flying to Asia (constantly!) on business and son and I spent most of them, going along or flying elsewhere while dad was working. Luckily around the time all the miles were gone because dad switched to Philippine Air which does me no good, I discovered FT and now have plenty of my own, all from leisure trips and FF activity. |
Zero
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I'd estimate over 2,000,000 airline miles (but not much more) on UA and under 200,000 AS, 100,000 SPG points, and a few occasional other awards from long ago (AirCal, HP, WN)
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I've only been accumulating AAdvantage miles since 1999, and only started to pile them up since Feb. 2000. I have claimed *zero* awards.
I don't get any credit card points or hotel miles or anything. Just airline. I'm in the Sofitel program, but that doesn't accumulate points you redeem. |
Far too many! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif
Surely over a million to this point! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redface.gif |
I've spent 415k AA miles, 100k USAir miles and 250k BA miles so far. 100k of the AA miles was bringing in people for the wedding, and the 250k BA miles were for our honeymoon. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
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I have spent 265K AA so far this year mostly on Hawaii. |
Great thread and a subject that always brings a smile to my face ('cause that's what they are there for, right?)...Redeemed Miles! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
Just United: About 4 Million spent and still spending! All other airlines combined: About 1.5 Million spent (most of it long ago). Total: 5.5 Million Miles Redeemed. Percent spent on me: Estimate only 20%, tops. Actually, this is pretty easy info to find out. Just call your program(s) to get your lifetime total miles and subtract your current balance. Hotel points...totally unknown. I'm an airline whore, not a hotel whore. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif [This message has been edited by PremEx (edited 06-13-2002).] |
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