I thought these numbers were intresting enough to share....we track our spend and yields thoroughly...these are for myself only...and they don't take into account employees or family members.

There are some pretty interesting things here...for example, look at the yields on WN as compared to other airlines. Why is that? (Rhetorical question...I understand why.)

I was actually suprised how low the yields for CO were until I thought about it....I've scored at least a couple of inexpensive flights and upgraded them with miles, long hauls...I did one trip, PVD-SFO-PVD for $300.40....$0.044/mile...and upgraded one way with miles, road in the bone crushing back the other way. I've used miles several times this year...in order to work at managing my expenses.

Interesting stuff, none-the-less.....and I think the numbers bear out exactly how my thought process for purchasing works.

TOTAL FIRST 6 MONTH SPEND & MILES FLOWN
Miles Flown = 70,816
TOTAL Spend = $15,773.30
TOTAL Air Fare = $13,777.28
TOTAL Taxes = $1,996.02
Average Yield = $0.195/mile

US Airways
Miles Flown = 3,325
TOTAL Spend = $247.40
TOTAL Air Fare = $193.50
TOTAL Taxes = $53.90
Average Yield = $0.058/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 1.4%, MILES = 4.7%
Currently Chairman's Preferred, MIGHT make Silver via UA Flying...but doubtful.


Continental Airlines
Miles Flown = 33,730
TOTAL Spend = $5,915.13
TOTAL Air Fare = $5,240.27
TOTAL Taxes = $647.86
Average Yield = $0.155/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 38%, MILES = 47.6%
STATUS = Requalified For Platinum Through February 2011

Icelandair
Miles Flown = 11,301
TOTAL Spend = $4,043.15
TOTAL Air Fare = $3,487.90
TOTAL Taxes = $555.25
Average Yield = $0.309/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 25.3%, MILES = 16.0%
One More Trip I'll Be "Slver Saga" For 2010

Delta/Northwest
Miles Flown = 9,533
TOTAL Spend = $2,472.41
TOTAL Air Fare = $2,240.47
TOTAL Taxes = $231.94
Average Yield = $0.235/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 16.3%, MILES = 13.5%
Currently Gold, Will Re-Qual for Gold, Platinum Is Possible

Southwest Airlines
Miles Flown = 5,271
TOTAL Spend = $1,426.70
TOTAL Air Fare = $1,199.07
TOTAL Taxes = $227.63
Average Yield = $0.227/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 8.7%, MILES = 7.4%
"A List" Is Possible This Year

United Airlines
Miles Flown = 4,976
TOTAL Spend = $1,069.37
TOTAL Air Fare = $905.22
TOTAL Taxes = $164.15
Average Yield = $0.182/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 6.6%, MILES = 7.0%
No Status, None Intended, Credited To US For Now, CO Once CO Joins *A


Midwest Airlines
Miles Flown = 1,499
TOTAL Spend = $219.60
TOTAL Air Fare = $197.91
TOTAL Taxes = $21.69
Average Yield = $0.132/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 1.4%, MILES = 2.1%

ALL OTHERS (Sansa, Alaska/Horizon & British Airways)
Miles Flown = 1,181
TOTAL Spend = $379.54
TOTAL Air Fare = $312.94
TOTAL Taxes = $66.60
Average Yield = $1.865/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 2.3%, MILES = 1.7%
(Flying Sansa From SJO to XQP was INSANELY expensive on a "per mile" basis.

I'll bite...

I am very, very small fry this year as I have cut my travel, but below are my numbers. All of my travel has been personal and out of my own pocket.

Please note that my one United ticket purchase was flown on US metal and credited to US Airways.

With regard to my US Airways purchases, I redeemed my last E-TUVs on two itineraries, $100 and $50 respectively.

OVERALL
Total BIS Miles Flown for 2009 22,675
Total Elite Qualifying Miles for 2009 33,086
Total Segments Flown for 2009 43
Total Amount Paid in 2009 $2,734.45
Total AIRFARE Paid in 2009 $2,151.41
Total Taxes & Fees Paid in 2009 $583.04
Overall % of Ticket Price for 2009 21.32%
Overall Yield for 2009 per mile $0.09

DELTA AIR LINES
Total BIS Miles Flown for 2009 18,989
Total Elite Qualifying Miles for 2009 25,434
Total Segments Flown for 2009 35
Total Amount Paid in 2009 $2,359.40
Total AIRFARE Paid in 2009 $1,860.47
Total Taxes & Fees Paid in 2009 $498.93
Overall % of Ticket Price for 2009 21.15%
Overall Yield for 2009 per mile $0.10

UNITED AIRLINES
Total BIS Miles Flown for 2009 2,066 credited to US
Total Elite Qualifying Miles for 2009 5,652 credited to US
Total Segments Flown for 2009 4 credited to US
Total Amount Paid in 2009 $235.90
Total AIRFARE Paid in 2009 $184.18
Total Taxes & Fees Paid in 2009 $51.72
Overall % of Ticket Price for 2009 21.92%
Overall Yield for 2009 per mile $0.09

US AIRWAYS
Total BIS Miles Flown for 2009 1,620
Total Elite Qualifying Miles for 2009 2,000
Total Segments Flown for 2009 4
Total Amount Paid in 2009 $139.15
Total AIRFARE Paid in 2009 $106.76
Total Taxes & Fees Paid in 2009 $32.39
Overall % of Ticket Price for 2009 23.28%
Overall Yield for 2009 per mile $0.07

I dont track my spending enough to keep that much detail. All personal flying with personal money spent.

US 0mi - $0 spent
Status - Silver will be general member for 2010

AS 40,000 mi BIS- $5000 spent.
50,000 EQM
So far for rest of year additional 15,000mi booked and $1000 spent
Status - Gold (Top tier)

NW 2,000 mi BIS - $300 Spent
Status - none credited to AS

Funny stuff! You "guys" don't fly US anymore but some how, some way, you think we'd be interested in your airline of choice. Please, just be happy you left, and equally, please just leave us alone!

Whoa!

I have flown US this year!

I'm sensing a little hostility here, Gary...

I know for me, I'm just communicating is all...my motto, don't worry! Be happy!

US Airways
Miles Flown = 3,325
TOTAL Spend = $247.40
TOTAL Air Fare = $193.50
TOTAL Taxes = $53.90
Average Yield = $0.058/mile
% Of TOTAL Dollars = 1.4%, MILES = 4.7%

Well, we Finns use a different calculus when applying accounting techniques to our flying.

US Air:

• flights this year = 10 6 domestic 4 TA
• Miles flown = 18 K I guess
• Air Fare = price that fit our flying need/budget
• Taxes paid = to the Fed? they want it all. Otherwise I don't know except that I know they screwed me in LHR on the UK UG tax
• Average Yield = since Obama came to town, I stopped looking as it's all negative
  
• Miles flown versus beer and wine consumed at destination = unable to say as we're in Spain at the moment and we're up to 5 bottles of wine and we can't remember the rest of the numbers. ^
  
• Satisfied with US or not? = still flying them, on time with bags & having some UG success and successfully playing the Z fare + Envoy UG game TA all of which gets us to our destination in good staid from the PHL market in which we live
  
• Who do I like more, Obama or Parker? = The former is running America like the later initially tried to run the new US Air. Given that US is now a mostly on-time with bags airline, I can forgive the later. I vote for Parker.

Where you live and what you value determines where and with whom you're gonna fly. The game is pay the man whether it's the government or an airline. I'm more afraid of the government crashing under debt than I am of US Air charging me more than WN.

Gotta go to the beach and get ready for another Spanish night. Adios

Barry

Probably more important than who you are flying I bet your all flying considerably less.

BTW CAL Revenue in June was down 19% and US was down 20% so for all your talk what they gained 1% from the thousand that left US for CAL?

That is AWESOME!!!

I'm actually flying more....for some crazy reason....oh yeah, I forgot...I'm trying to take advantage of those in my biz flying less...lol

As for the CO/US matrix...that is only one VERY small part of the equation...but, I'd guess you know that.

On USAIR

2 Segments PHL to BOS did not go back and look up the fares
I do have 4 segments planned for next week
PHL - BOS
PHL - LAX

As I have stated before I use US when they can get me where I am going when I need to be there on a non-stop.
Also, they are mostly innocent since they do not fly where I have been going for the last 18 months except London.

SQ
EWR - SIN 6 segments
JFK - SIN 8 segments
SIN - SYD 4 segments

BA


PHL- LHR 4 segments

After having CP status for about 8 or 9 years, I dropped to Plat last year, nothing this year. Now I fly Delta when I can and they've been pretty good...much kinder than US as far as accommodating and making me feel appreciated. Just Silver there so far. Only one trip on US this year and it was an award. Have to figure out what to do with the 420k or so miles I have left!

US Airways:

YTD Spend: $2,415.83 (net after vouchers)
YTD EQM: 90,052 (will get another 10k this month when I hit $25k on my US MC)
YTD RDM: 123,696 (from flying, another 100,914 from other sources)
Cost per EQM: 2.68 cents
Cost per RDM: 1.95 cents
Status: Platinum for now, Chairman at the end of the month

American Airlines:

YTD Spend: $1,874.70 (net after VDB voucher)
YTD EQM: 103,244
YTD RDM: 197,346 (from flying, another 109,259 from other sources)
Cost per EQM: 1.82 cents
Cost per RDM: 0.95 cents
Status: Executive Platinum

Since this is focused on a comparison of all the various airlines flown YTD by the OP and responders, we'll move this over to MilesBuzz, where it's perhaps more relevant.

-AZ
US Forum Moderator

Overall? My US flying is up slightly, but it's almost all been on "junk" fares.

My WN flying us up, since I can use them to get to DEN and RDU when US has no "junk" fare available. They're actually nice.

I've just crossed 1100 miles or so on DL, but credited to CO (project in ATL).

ZERO on CO. I'm just not willing to risk their IRROPS in the summer AND a connection.

75k+ on AA.

Overall, my flying is down miles and spend wise. The miles part is largely due to a client change from the west coast to midwest and east coast. The spend is due to no more paid F.

That said, I'll be finishing up EXP and then focusing on CO - I could use the *A status being PHL-based.

I'll take any charity transfers!

I was on a project based in PHL for 2 1/2 months. The return flight home my last week on that project, I hit US Silver. Just my luck that the following week, I'm placed on a 5 month project that is all remote work. Works out well, as I am moving next month, but its just a pain that I have not had the opportunity to capitalize on any of my Silver benefits (if you can call them that! )

US: 30 segments, 26K miles
DL: 4 segments, 2K miles
AA: 4 segments, 2K miles

I'll be switching to either AA or DL as soon as I resume traveling and relocate to BNA...still pondering that decision