Who has Highest Balance on this Board
 

Who has the highest FF Balance on this board

I probably have the lowest with 0 miles with NW...

Speaking only for myself, you might find a reluctance to engage in the "mine's bigger" mentality. But, as they say in The Millionaire Next Door, there are a lot of people out there with "big hat, no cattle."

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Lufthansa offers its top tier members an overdaft of up to 160.000 miles. Some on this board probably have a balance well below 0.

(For details check the LH board)

I think it depends on your definition - largest current balance, or greatest number of miles or points accumulated over the lifetime of the program. Also, do you mean all programs combined, or just one. Comparing between programs is like comparing different currencies.

Anyway, this active thread discusses people with over 25 million points. There was a general agreement that 25M points was easily achieved, but there was disagreement on whether somebody could build such a balance through flying alone.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/009053.html

Getting 25 million account miles by flying only would not be too hard for the 'real' flyers. A LH Miles and More flyer doing it in paid pointy end long haul would be a perfect example.

As all regular CO flyers will recall there was a time in the not so distant past where a 1000 flight was getting 25,000 account miles or whatever for Plats if you signed up for all the insane bonuses they were tossing about without auditing them. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Who cares? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/rolleyes.gif

However, welcome to FT! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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Vasant

I have a very good balance unless I sit too long or it gets late into the nite and I am tired from LQQKing at the screen and reading Fyertalk.


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I would like to put a somewhat different slant on this thread. About one year ago I decided to play the miles game in earnest. I am retired. My previous employment involved a lot of travel and I was used to upgrades and had enough miles for several trips to Europe and Asia. All those were gone on our last trip to Europe. My aggressive approach to gathering miles involved multiple credit cards (nine new between my wife and myself), lots of savings bond purchases, balance transfers, and various other activities mentioned on this board. The results are that between the two of us we have over 1 million miles total in a total of four programs (600K in one program). Some miles are earned but have not yet posted (Amex, Ameritrade, etc). Hard costs are somewhat less than $2K (mostly credit card fees). My credit score has dropped about 150 points (fortunately do not need a mortgage or car loan). Was it worth it? I think so. What do you think?

People with high mileage balances don't impress me. People who have used their miles for trips of a lifetime do impress me.

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As do people who use their miles & certs on behalf of those in need http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif

I had a lovely high Ansett mile balance. Once.

Use 'em or lose 'em folks. These are NOT like money in the bank. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Miles not only do NOT earn interest, but a huge hike in award levels like many plans have snuck through lately devalues them more than if you had Turkish Lira in your IRA. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

How much of this mileage was earned in the past year via non- flight activity?

You say that you have "over one million miles". Did you earn all this in one year via partner activity?

I think so also. A million miles is CONSERVATIVELY worth , IMHO, more than $ 8000.

If you think it was - thats all that matters