I'm in the midst of my worst flying year since I started travelling for work a decade ago. I might just barely hit 50k this year and 50 or 60 EQS. I'll probably have to pull a MR or two to even pull that off. I'm used to hitting 100-150k per year paid and another 20-25k on reward tix.

I took a promotion early this year and got a nice raise, but they didn't tell me that I was going to get screwed out of travelling. :mad: The thought of not travelling at least a couple of weeks a month makes me extremely depressed. I have no idea how folks with desk jobs don't hang themselves after a few hours of being in an office... Probably gonna have to go find me a job that keeps me on the road at least 40 weeks a year before I start getting DTs.:rolleyes:

All my FF account numbers are printed on an index card and protected by plastic in my wallet just in case my plans change during my trip.

I started traveling regularly for work toward the end of last year. Now I'm on the road 70%+. I'm aiming for (and think I can hit) 125K EQM on AA this year.

I'm not sure what 'BIS' means but I flew about 250K actual miles last year and due to a recent job reassignment am now flying at a rate of over 500K actual miles per year. Most all of those miles are on Star Alliance carriers and I'm currently putting all those miles into BD's FFP. With bonuses that will come to way over 1,000,000 miles per year just for flying. I fly a R/T long haul once every 1 or 2 weeks. All my flying is for business and have no time for leisure travel at the moment but am just hoarding my miles for future leisure travel when my job will allow it.

BIS = BUTT-IN-SEAT. Again, the assumption here is that all, or at least most posting are pretty savvy, so the benchmark is BIS, not anyother factor, we could all figure that out if we wanted.

That...is a lot of flying. My highest years were about 85-90K and even then I would wake up sometimes and wonder where I was. Those were grind years - spending virtually the entire year on the road and going place to place every week or two, home a total of maybe five weekends during the year. It's a good way to bank miles for the future but makes for a tough life.

wow with all the travel i hope ur doing all J and some F?

Since I'm relatively young, I can count the number of flights I've taken in my life, and that number is 72 as of Friday. That's an average of one flight every 80 days. I've flown 8 transatlantic flights, 4 transpacific flights, and the rest are mostly US domestic. Since I live in Denver, I have no choice but United unfortunately, though I also occasionally fly Frontier.

101,000 miles last year with 40,000 of them being on reward travel. So far this year 23,000 but I do most traveling in the last half of the year.