Has anyone made the elusive triple-triple?
 

In basketball a player has to demonstrate a large skill set to achieve a triple double. Normally its done with scoring, rebounds, and assists. Occasionally steals or blocked shots.

For frequent flyers it isn't possible to do this in a single game, so I think lifetime stats are appropriate. Award travel seems to be our common goal on this board so here are my catagories for the triple-triple

100 or more free round trips either flown personally or given to a friend or family member earned with frequent flyer airline miles.

100 or more free room nights either used personally or given to a friend or family member earned with frequent stay hotel points.

100 or more free rental car days either used personally or given to a friend or family member earned from one of the rental car loyalty programs.

I just reached my second of these catagories. It appears that rental cars days is the most elusive for me and I probably will never reach 100 in that catagory. So I think I will just be the proud owner of a double-triple.

Here are my stats:

Free airline round trips:
22 international
78 domestic
100 total

Free hotel nights:
67 international
69 domestic
136 total

Free rental car days:
29 domestic
0 international
29 total

Feel free to suggest other catagories. I thought maybe free upgrades might work but it would be by segment.

Are we talking in a calander year? Or lifetime?

Either way, I won't be making this triple. Lifetime hotel nights, yes. Probably already there. Maybe flights, someday in the future. But I could count my number of car rentals on one hand, none of them free.

Can't reallly think of any other comparable categories either.

Cheers,

I generally use miles for upgrades and not award tickets, and only rent a car an average of once a year, so I don't expect I'll ever get there. Plus the fact that I pay for my own travel, and don't have a company sponsor my mileage/point habit makes it unlikely to earn enough miles/points to do it anyway.

My first thought when I saw this title would have been something like highest status on 3 airlines, in 3 alliances, in one year. 1K on UA, Platinum Medallion on DL, and Executive Platinum on AA. That would be an accomplishment...that would land you in a psych ward or chiropractors office.

I qualify on flights and nights but not rides. I have maybe 25 days of free car rentals. I don't rent cars very often any more so membership in your club seems unlikely.

I have not tracked those stats, but I bet I am close on all three categories. The free car rental is definately a no brainer. I took my family on a trip to Florida and used only free days. It was a 10 day trip and we had 3 cars. That is 30 days right there. I have rented cars using points for 3 other family trips and they were each for a week. That is 63 days for a total of 93 days. I am certain I have used at least 5 weekend certificates for at least 10additional days.

Flights. We flew all 13 people to Florida (first class) and used miles for all tickets. I have earned at least 10 SW tickets that I gifted to my daughter. I have gifted flights to my mother at least 6 times (that I can recall). My husband has used my miles on at least 10 flights. I have flown 5 times on my miles (I prefer to earn miles rather than burning them). I have flown my daughters various boyfriends at least 8 times. I gifted 3 tickets to my husbands best friend. I gifted my inlaws with 2 tickets. That is a total of 49 that I can remember. I am sure that there are probably a dozen or so more that I just do not remember right now. So, I am probably short in this category, but I have enough miles accrued to fly at least 15 domestic flights right now. I find that frequently I cannot justify using miles because the airfares are cheap.

Hotels. For the Florida trip, we had 5 rooms for 10 days. That was 50 rooms. The other family trips we had 3-4 rooms for a week. That was about 75 rooms. I have used hotel points on at least a dozen times for weekends, usually 3 day weekends. That would be 36 nights. So, I am waaaay over on hotel nights. I am probably close to 200 free nights. I used to do the Hyatts mostly, but have switched to Marriott for the last 7 years or so, but sometimes use other hotels as well. I am currently Gold with Hilton and Plat Premier with Marriott. Last year I was Plat Prem with Marriott, Gold with Hilton and Diamond with Hyatt. (a trifecta on its own teehee)

I had anticipated something more along these lines:

Triple = Top elite status in 3 air programs.
Double = Top elite status in 3 air and 3 hotel programs.

I am not sure your definition of a triple double makes much sense from a practical perspective. For example I have probably cashed in close to 50 awards from WN but they were all for relatively modest domestic trips v. a handful of awards for high value premium cabin international travel. I think most here would be more impressed with the number of free flights in the latter.

Of course it's your call... :)

P.S. I'd really recommend throwing out the car rental category. Many of us simply priceline our rentals or earn air credits rather than rental rewards.

I've had top status in three alliances, sort of - if you count Delta Royal Medallion back when it was DL's highest level, long before anyone dreamed of alliances such as SkyTeam. However, the best I've done at the same time is my current situation: OW Sapphire and *A Gold. Unless I start a new job with a heck of a lot more travel than teaching at a public university provides, that's as good as it's going to get.

(If they paid frequent flyers who hit the triple-triple as well as they pay basketball players who can, there would be a heck of a lot of us.)

I am close on flights and have over 100 for hotels. I will never have 100 free rental care days. I have never redeemed points for a rental car. I usually transfer them or choose to earn partner points.

Probably yes on hotels. That's about 15-17 total awards from SPG, HH, and MR. Offhand I can count about that.

No on flights. I've spent a lot of miles on upgrades, but even counting those I've maybe done 50-60 total awards of one form or another.

No on rental cars. I rent a lot and use a lot of one-day standalone free day awards. But lifetime total is probably in the 30-40 range.


If I can count Marriott PP's, EEO's, HPR's, Visa Nights, and other promo nights - or if I can count the ubiquitous rental car "3rd Weekend Day Free", then my totals are quite a bit higher.

I have only redeemed (and only intend to ever redeem) miles for international premium-class trips, costing 80,000-145,000 miles. So I will never hit 100 such round trips.

I have redeemed many free hotel nights, but not yet close to 100, and have only earned free car rental days a couple of times.

I was totally thinking the same thing.

I doubt many people track how many lifetime award flights/stays/rentals they have. I certainly wouldn't call that a triple triple either.

UA/DL/AA

SPG/Marriott/Hilton

I'm only 1 for 6 but have 2 other silvers. I'm a stricly leisure traveler so I do it the hard way, but enjoy it.

very impressive.

" I find that frequently I cannot justify using miles because the airfares are cheap."
I agree on this one. I dont fly much anymore but saved my miles up for a free trip to Europe last year. saved $1200, now that was worth it.

As I only redeem miles for F/C(J) long haul flights, I'll never get there.
Using UA's rate from last year and 3:7 F to C ratio, I would have to earn something like 10 million miles to achieve 100 award RTs.

It only took a little over 5,000,000 miles for me to get my 100 free RT flights. WN accounted for about a dozen of my free flights. I counted them as 1,000 miles per credit earned. So each redemption was only 16,000 miles. That kept my average down.

I almost always get first or business class on international awards and long domestic stuff like Hawaii. I started way back in 1981 with AAdvantage and then all the other domestic airlines. The cost of awards have certainly increased over time (except WN) but so have the opportunities to earn miles.

My hotel total has been earned in about 8 years. For the past few years I find far greater value in those programs than the airline programs.