What's the closest you've been to your milage maximum?
 

I just booked a midi star alliance 26,000 mile RTW for $2300AUD.

My itinerary is:
MEL->SYD->LAX->LAS->PHL->LHR->SIN->DPS->SIN->MEL

For a grand total of 25,968 miles :).

I was pretty lucky, because anything over and I would have had to have spent an extra $400 on upgrading my ticket.

How close you have been? :)

Going for SQ Gold?

BTW, 6 miles :o

IIRC 38,995 miles

Haha, damn, I wasn't as close as I thought :)

No - I'm a university student - I only fly one RTW + 1 MEL-DPS per year, only enough to retain my pathetic silver status :)

I'm currently planning for a RTW ticket and according to the RTW calculator my trip mileage is 28,999. :D ^

Watch out. I had one in planning that was also 1 mile under according to the tool, but official mileage was 5 miles over so wouldnt ticket. Took a lot of mucking around to change routing to get it under the limit.

:( I was worried about that. Thanks for the heads up, Kiwi Flyer. According to the Mileage calculator SIN-CGK is 557 miles but if you fly SQ, they would credit only 550. Which one do they use for the calculation?

If you're ticketing by SQ then they'll use the same mileage used for crediting purposes - ie 550. Other airlines may use another mileage amount.

38,997 on a CRWSTAR3 ... took four goes to get it approved by SQ in BKK last year -- small changes each time got me what I wanted and came close to max'ing out

28,382... BEY-FRA-JFK-PHX-SFO-AKL (thanks for the advice Kiwi Flyer) -SYD-SIN-FRA-BEY. And thanks to demue for putting this trip together.

Managed to book a Star3 with exacactly 39000 miles only to have it stopped because of 1 transfer to much in FRA - with adjustmentments following that it was only 38991 miles :D

Cheers

Thomas

My travel agent allows me to use up to 29020 miles ^, and I have a few trips 29019 miles.

Come on! You have got to share! :D

-3 miles for me :)

The infamous trip of 1998 or so - back when things were oh so much easier in Star land. I doubt we could get away with it these days. Yup, it came to 29,003 miles, but I was allowed to fly at the Star1 price due to some clever arguing of distances by my wonderful agent (the argument being YYZ-EWR is way less actual miles than YYZ-NYC, which is what the calculation uses, since EWR's much closer to YYZ - by 30 or so miles). The airlines involved agreed excepting one hold out... but that was resolved (and even I do not know how) and I was good to go.

AH, those were the glory days.... before fuel surcharges.. before max. sector limits... the heady days when your taxes and charges were well under 10% of your total ticket cost. unbelieveable!! :D

Great, but I still feel we should have maxed it out a bit more. ;) I know, time is of the essence on this trip and you don't want to end up doing some useless hopping around to get the most mileage out of it. :D Overall pretty decent what we came up with I think. Still puzzles me that there are no direct *A flights from Japan to OZ? Have you made up your mind about C or F class?

Cheers ...