As posted my neighbour was flying UA to SFO. That is a direct 747 service and the 747 centre row of course gives you PLENTY of room to lay down flat. He was only about 5'6" so that also would have helped I guess. He said he far preferred that sleep than the front cabins. Go figger.

Don't forget that until recently cashing in earned stickers (which an EXP flying only paid F internationally would never use otherwise) would have added another 10K to that total, so less than 30 Chicago - Rome RTs (a little more than twice a month) could put someone at a million miles earned that year from travel alone.

just trying to figure out what your point is here ; if we all fly coach , that will warm his feet ?


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I believe the focus is on FLOWN miles (butt-in seat miles) per year.

You can earn a million miles in 5 minutes with one huge credit card charge.

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No, I think that we all get a little too tied up in winning the "game" (whatever that may be) and forget that many people out there don't even get to play the game. For me, my signiture is a subtle reminder that there are things more important than what I say on this board. (That little sermonette took us WAY off the topic.)

Reverend Edward J. Melton
Holy Cross Church

I dunno either...but then again, I can sleep on my own in a single Y seat (I'm small enough that I don't have any problem fitting decently well). My dad is 6'2" and related the story to me using 4 seats (I guess a 2-4-2 config) in Y. I think the difficulty for some people is the choice between flat on their side or lounged in the larger C seat but required to be on their back and not flat. That's going to end up being a personal preference.

Well this is an interesting and heated discussion...

I can see that the general populace is extremely skeptical of a FFers ability to earn such excessive quantities of miles by flying alone, but I must relate my own experiences..

I started flying with American Airlines in 1993, while still living in London, by 2001 I had a lifetime total of some 350000 miles and a current balance around the 100k mark.. Very irregular travel, usually short hops from NYC to DFW or DTW and suchlike..

Just after 11-sep-01 I began travelling extensively, made exec plat for the first time in late 2002 and passed 1m lifetime miles earlier this year..
In other words, just by doing my regular 'commuter' flights from places like JFK-SEA / LGA-DFW / JFK-BRU no more than once a week I've accumulated more than 100000 FLOWN miles per year, over 600000 earned miles in under 2 years.

My travel is nothing special and many people here exceed my meager travel schedule week after week, so I find it eminently believable that there are million-a-year flyers out there... heck I've done 150000 this year purely domestically (ISP-BOS-SEA or JFK-SEA)

Please bear in mind that some people, particularly antipodeans will accrue huge balances with relatively few flights..

Happy flying and remember miles are for SPENDING (I spent this years accrual already )

Hmm, I wonder if we can put the urban legend of a million mile/year BIS flyer to rest now as well...

A legend in his own mind.

But very much real to a quite a lot of creditors.

25 million mylez, eh?

Boy, that's a WHOLE lotta gift cards!

(Hey I have like only 25 mile in US Air right now. Not 25m. That's a lot of mylez!)

MM

Well, I got a NW logoed Waterman Pen, a brass luggage tag and a thank you note for BIS 1 million+ miles. They said my name has too many letters and they are in a cash crunch... otherwise that CRJ would have been SPC354 by now!

duplicate

yes, it WOULD be nice to DUPLICATE the world series win last year!
MM

Ain't happening. The Cards are going all the way, and we're doing it with the AAA team due to injuries to Scotty, Larry, Reggie, Grudzielanek, more surgery to Mike Lincoln, etc.