ContinentalFan nearly took me down as well it took my highest UA flying year to eclipse his annual total to my lifetime total - I just cleared 700K lifetime after logging 135K+ this year on paid UA flights in 10+ months.

Bravo sir! I wish I had flown a few of these, but it was not at all convenient being ex-east coast. I did fly SJU-EWR once this year on a cheap AC business class fare.

​​​​Where are you based? Any irrops during the 24 days run?

Bases out of ORD, I was expected to move to LA temporarily for March and April, and took advantage of a transitionary remote work period between late Jan and mid Feb. Did a few more when I was in LA, and got a few out of PHX in Sept and Oct, and a couple out of ORD late Oct.

I usually use those $20 repositioning flights on Frontier to get to LAX or SFO. As for IRROPS, I was somewhat protected because EWR-SJU and LAX-HNL were turnarounds, so I was always guaranteed a flight back. There was sufficient layover to get the next LAX-EWR or EWR-LAX. Only once did I have to sleep in SJU, but I took advantage of unlimited rebooking to add some LT miles (SJU-EWR-BOS-LAX) or take ORC if that wasn't an option. My tightest connection was making it from C110 to A15 in EWR in 13 mins.

From 2025, I'll be fully based out of PHX, and so far I've only found runs to BOS that hit my sub-4cpm threshold for BIS mileage runs.

with only 72 PQF, that's impossible to get nearly 500k miles. 500,000 / 72 is roughly 7k miles per flight average, so having 85%-90% of your flights being sub 3k miles doesn't make sense. Are you sure you got 500k bis this year?

Those were on N fares, so didn't count toward PQF. Actual segments were on the order of 250 I believe this year.

Oh so basic coach. Question, why would you spend all of the time and $ to do get some lifetimes? I totally understand a few mileage runs, but thats a lot!

Found some cheap MR fares between EWR and PHX this year. One of my best cpm fares this year was 2.66 EWR-PHX-EWR immediate turnaround.

Somehow UA also allowed that roundtrip on one ticket without auto higher fare code remapping.

The seatback monitor connection guide showing the only connection for the EWR to PHX leg (late night arrival): PHX to EWR (redeye). I assume I was the only one making that "connection"

Not much time "lost" to be honest, I work quite efficiently on a plane as an analyst and like that white noise. It only affects meeting scheduling for work, but I hate meetings anyway and schedule so few of them. I think surviving on lounge/club food is the bigger sacrifice lol. I really can't justify the $ at 3.6ish cpm, the ROI is maybe 3-4% annual for LT Gold assuming no devaluation in the future, and that's best case. Might as well invest that in the S&P and buy E+ subscription off the dividends lol.

I like the chase of a million miles, and I've learnt so much about flying around, estimating connection times at lots of airports, and finding good fares, that I've become the go-to guy for IRROPS handling and fare search in the social circle. I probably wouldn't have friends if they knew I did MRs though, except the folks here on Flyertalk... ContinentalFan and I did a couple together lol

Lots of ticketing shenanigans with United taxes calculation when you do turnarounds or chain turnarounds. Never really found how/why. 2.66 cpm is amazing, I'm jealous. I think my best ever was 2.93 cpm on ORD SJU round trips. Please keep me posted if you find PHX runs, those are worth their weight in gold and involve red-eyes which I love.

I hope next year you add SIN and DXB to the playlist. They�re two great destinations for lifetime miles!

It�s one of those things where any explanation isn�t satisfactory for most people and no explanation is needed for those with the bug.

If United gave me a reason to fly and other million miles next year, I�d do it.

Again, I think that doing a couple RTW trips in 1 year is totally fine (and normal for avgeeks, but flying for the entire year straight for 'fun' in coach doesn't sound vert fun) I guess everyone is different.

Maybe they'll put your name on a plane like Tom!

I think, more likely, the honey wagon, with the cpm in parentheses. 😊

Done for the year, with 305k BIS over roughly 140 UA segments. I�m not sure how it happened but excited to see what 2025 brings!

Right, there's no explaining the appeal of being on airplanes to those for whom flying is an uncomfortable hassle. I have no idea why people follow sports or decorate their fingernails.

Hats off to you, MM_someday. If I still had the constitution for long flights in Economy, by now I would have seen a lot more of this planet than I have.

As of today I have 17,407 PQP and 53 PQF, with 1 more flight on Monday earning 602 PQP and 1 PQF.

I might "accidentally" earn another 25 PQP via credit card.