First off I am bored. I am just sitting here thinking about flying, miles, upgrades, business class, and elite status. So what is the point of have top level elite status on 2 airlines,if most of your travel is for lesiure and such?
I can understand having 2 programs if business travel is involved. In my opinion it seems outlandish just lesiure travel. Mainly, because the difficulty in retaining the status year to year.


I Guess i am wondering why one would go out of there way acqiure top level elite status on 2 different airlines it seems like a huge waste at times... granted I guess you would do it through a challange or something but i just don't see the point. sure I would love to have status at two airlines just the responsible part of me tells me it is not worth it.


I already feel like I get taken to the cleaners by the airlines sometimes...

In additon why would one want to be and EXP on AA and a 1k on UAL? The route networks overlap a tone too....... it just doesn't make sense(to Me).......

I can't justify spending the extra money to do MRs just to get to platinum in part i don't really feel like spending forever on planes between now and the end of the year

i dunno:-: it's all good

I find your question to be very confusing. Are you suggesting that if someone is flying >200K miles a year for leisure purposes they should deliberately avoid earning top status on an airline? Maybe mix it up and spread those miles between 10 airlines so they don't earn any status at all?

Yes, I realize you're trolling, but the question makes no sense. If I were flying >200K a year -- for business or for pleasure -- I'd split it between two airlines, one in the Star Alliance and one in the OneWorld alliance. That pretty much ensures I'd get the top-tiers perks & have access to award tickets where ever in the world I'd choose to fly.

I think that you are assuming the only way people who don't fly for business to earn status is through mileage runs, and that's not the case at all.

Don't get me wrong, there are people who will fly every chance they get because it gets them a few more miles, but I don't think it's anywhere near a significant amount of people flying.