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Originally Posted by steve32
(Post 11480470)
Which FF program are they modeling? BIS miles or program miles? Or a more nebulous "flying miles" (including bonuses)?
BIS miles takes a loooooong time. I understand they give the equivalent of mid-tier elite status at 1 million BIS. Fastest 1MM flying with bonuses was that Canadian who punched it all out with one "unlimited flying" pass in (as I recall) two months? Fastest program miles accumulation I've heard of is 2MM in 7 days, by a guy who turned in 17 Marriott Rewards travel packages into 2.04 million miles! Pudding Guy punched out 1MM program miles in AA within a couple months. My own modest efforts did it more conventionally in a little under 16 months. (2MM coming early this May--a little under 24 months after 1MM). Steve STL is very important in the story-not just chosen at random. This book goes for cheap on ABE/com or amazon.Quick and fun read-although it does get a little strung out at points. |
Is Randy an official consultant for the movie?
Anyway I think this movie would make a great DO opportunity "Flyertalk goes to the movies". |
Originally Posted by gj83
(Post 11468836)
Wirelessly posted (HTC-P4600/1.2 Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) UP.Link/6.3.1.20.0)
could they have picked uglier airports than OMA and STL? is it supposed to be on american or a made up airline? |
Originally Posted by DavidDTW
(Post 11486022)
Actually, a lot of the airport scenes were filmed at DTW a few weeks ago. The movie crew was here in Detroit for about a week.
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Originally Posted by steve32
(Post 11480470)
Which FF program are they modeling? BIS miles or program miles? Or a more nebulous "flying miles" (including bonuses)?
BIS miles takes a loooooong time. I understand they give the equivalent of mid-tier elite status at 1 million BIS. Fastest 1MM flying with bonuses was that Canadian who punched it all out with one "unlimited flying" pass in (as I recall) two months? Fastest program miles accumulation I've heard of is 2MM in 7 days, by a guy who turned in 17 Marriott Rewards travel packages into 2.04 million miles! Pudding Guy punched out 1MM program miles in AA within a couple months. My own modest efforts did it more conventionally in a little under 16 months. (2MM coming early this May--a little under 24 months after 1MM). Steve I might have to try and estimate one day what my total lifetime earn has been...though I have only kept records the last few years. I had prior to this redeemed well over a million points just going over in my head flights redeemed...so I might well be at 5 million thereabouts. There are some business guys thought that churn through large expenditures each and every year...so there must be some with massive earns. |
Originally Posted by steve32 Which FF program are they modeling? BIS miles or program miles? Or a more nebulous "flying miles" (including bonuses)? BIS miles takes a loooooong time. I understand they give the equivalent of mid-tier elite status at 1 million BIS. I'll hit million miler on American in a month or two after nearly 20 years in the AAdvantage program, but with fewer than 100K BIS miles (including those on TWA that carried over). Mostly bonus miles. |
I heard on the radio several weeks ago in Michigan that Clooney was filming something at DTW, but whatever it is was set in Seattle.
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so the DJ saw STL and jumped to "Seattle"? *facepalm*
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Originally Posted by scoow
(Post 11486061)
They've also been filming at STL. The "closed" D Concourse is being used at the airport and other scenes have been filmed around town.
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Originally Posted by DavidDTW
(Post 11512241)
Why not inconvenience or misconnect hundreds of pax just so a movie can be made. :rolleyes:
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I flew into STL on Thursday evening (9pm). The A Concourse security area was shut down and they were prepping the area for a shoot. Lots of film crew running around and a few extras sitting on benches along the hallway.
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not holding hopes
I won't get too excited that it would have too many factual refs but I love the premise.
I remember being really annoyed when Memoirs of a geisha came out and they chose chinese actresses for the leads when the movie was all about Japanese culture and the tradition and beauty of the Japanese Geisha. There is a definate difference between the two. Pretty obnoxious and missing the point but that is hollywood. I would love to see a screening of this with serious ff's. Would be funny hearing yells of "That would clearly never happen!" lol. |
Sounds cool movie but why OMA/STL airports? True MR or FT movie would take place in a bigger transcon and intl weekend MR capable city like DC or SF.
I was also afraid they were going to make a Punch Drunk Love 2! :( That movie really had nothing to do with FF or MR. |
Yeah, they need to have him fly over a weekend on some ridiculous self-booked and self-paid segment-laden itinerary that gets undone by weather or something, while GAs rebook him to something eliminating 3 or 4 of his carefully booked redundant segments and they can't understand why he's complaining. Then TSA flags him as suspicious. :p
They also should have him attending the SIN RUN DO, it being a superlative event of sorts for frequent-flying obsessives. With it being Hollywood, though, I'm sure there are other priorities. |
Originally Posted by RustyC
(Post 11662093)
They also should have him attending the SIN RUN DO, it being a superlative event of sorts for frequent-flying obsessives.
Frequent Flyer the movie, it's SINful! |
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