I suspect a lot of folks look towards December 31st with more dread than April 15th... (Warning: US Joke --- IRS Income Tax Deadline)

I clinched CO Silver last trip. I may shut down for the rest of the year --- which is fine with me. Ideally, I'd like to have a couple of trips moved to January to count towards next year!


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Go Annas! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

UA 1P - need 15K to requalify ... and I have no idea how I'm going to do it, but probably a mileage run to either Europe (Munich-Prague) or Asia (Sinapore).

Hilton - 1 stay away from Silver. If I don't requalify :shrug: .... hello Starwood.

Starwood - was comped to Gold this year, good through Feb. '01, but now that I've had a taste of the famed Heavenly Bed I'm sold. The front desk service on my one experience with them was far superior to almost every Hilton experience I've had to date (with the exception being the Millennium Hilton in downtown Manhattan).

i have big work to do, and not alot of time left.

us gold - need 2500 miles, have booked ny-bos-phi-dc-bos-ny for 10/20-21. $294, which isn't that cheap but needed 1500 shuttle miles to assist me in my quest for

aa exc plat - need 27,000 less 1500 shuttle miles. this will be two ny-europe trips via a hub, plus a isp-california run 1st week in november ($232!! thank you, sw).

nw platinum - as of today, it says i need 28,000 - however, missing 2000 yet to be posted. have 2 one way ny-dtw-ams-bru already booked (today & 10/27). so, i have one asia run to do, scheduled for thanksgiving, and if that doesn't get me there, i may just have to give up.

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For 2001:

UAL 1-K
AS MVP Gold
HHonors Diamond

Just booked Joe's last 12,000 mile flight to accomplish UAL 1-K. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

AA ExPlat 2001 (joined AAAdvantage when I moved to US on March 15 made ExPlat in September.

BA Exec Gold 2001(needed 600 points to requalify under European scheme standing on 2130 points year to date)

Iberia Plus Platinum 2001 (dont use them much now but they have a 2 year qualification

Starwood Platinum 2001 (36 stays 75 nights this year.

USAir Dividend.Want to go Gold from current Silver need 11,000 miles more but have trip from Philly to Madrid and Paris back to Philly on Envoy which should help.Should be able to engineer it

TWA Elite 1- at 33,000 today, with two TA RTs coming up, SEA-DCA and SEA-MCI will hit it by Nov. 5, everything else is gravy. Anyone know if they give threshold bonuses on TWA?

AlaskaMVP - got it in September, at least three more trips planned this year. Oh the excitement. Not that it means anything, you getTWO bags of cashews in FC.

No hotel stays, I stay with friends or in b&bs.

No rental cars, though I just got my Hertz Gold thing in the mail.

Coffee:I have two free lattes at my favorite coffee place in Seattle. 60th St. Desserts. Great cookies, closest place to work and locally owned!!!!!!

Reads like some of us maybe running into each other at airports throughout Q4. Here's where I stand...

DL - Gold Elite (?) : 83 segs a/o 10.11. Had a trip to coporate (SAN) scheduled for 1st week in Nov. that got cancelled yesterday. Too bad, thanks to fellow FTers, used itn.net to make it 6 seg trip from ATL. Fortunately, am a member of DL Escape, and may be able to make Platinum that way (along with a lot of day trips to SAV,MYR,RDU, or any other AirTran city http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif).
As always, any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Not even close to most of you. I only began flying regularly for work this year. Over 60k actual flight miles so far this year and will probally only make AA gold and NW prefered (lowest tiers). Can't seem to find runs any that will rack up 25k status miles that I can afford so I guess I just hope for next year.

Intering note: Milesmax says "based on your flight activity in 2000, you are on track to be in the top 3.7% of all frequent flyers!"

And they don't even list all my programs. Funny I don't feel like I'm in the top 3.7% http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/confused.gif

Trips on AA from LAX-LHR for late november and early december are pretty reasonably (which I guess could be relative depending on each person's finances) priced right now (~$500ish r/t). Two weekend runs and you can earn (and your rear end will remind you that you are earning the miles http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif) the additional 25k miles you need for PLT. Depends on how much you will be traveling next year and if PLT is worth it to you, but getting 100% mileage bonus as PLT i/o just 25% mileage bonus as GLD could make a significant difference depending on how many miles you will be flying in 2001.

If you are going to fly about 50K miles next year (enought to requalify for PLT), PLT will provide you with 37,500 additonal bonus miles, which is enough for at least one domestic r/t so maybe spending the $1k may not be worth it. If you are going to be flying a lot (100K miles) then the 75k bonus miles may be worth it. Plus, if AA have any type of TTBNS bonuses on top of the regular PLT bonus miles, then making PLT could be worth 150k miles.

Not to forget being able to upgrade at 72 hrs before your flight as PLT i/o just 24 hrs before your flight as GLD.

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I have some work to do, and that's cool...

United: I am already requalified for 1K in 2001.

British Airways: Already requalified for Gold in 2001.

American: I get free Platinum status through my company, so no need to worry about requalifying. I use BA for all my non-AA oneworld flights, and AA on AA-operated flights (for upgrades, etc.) which I do few of.

Continental:I currently have Gold for 2001, but will be hoping to achieve Platinum with a couple mileage runs. Not too far off from Platinum, either (thanks to the 75K level rather than the norm 100K).

US Airways: I got Silver (twice, technically) this year thanks to their promotion post-strike, and am in range of Gold. Just a couple mileage runs. When I get Gold, I should have six systemwides! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Delta: I just got a promotion for Gold Medallion status with 12 segments, so I should get this by years end.

In summary:
Had going into 2000: UA 1K, BA Gold, CO Gold, AA Plat (free)

Qualified in 2000 for 2001: UA 1K, BA Gold, CO Gold, AA Plat (free), US Silver

Still need to qualify for 2001:CO Plat, US Gold, DL Gold

If all goes as to plan, status in 2001:: UA 1K, BA Gold, AA Plat (free), CO Plat, DL Gold, US Gold

Actually, I was thinking about planning out my elite statuses this weekend, going into next year. This thread was good for organizing where I need to be. thanks!

ESPNfan

I'm feeling the heat...

USAirways Chairman's Preferred: 92/100 segments, way below on miles
USAirways Gold Preferred (for my wife): 59/60 segments, close on miles too

Will probably take an e-saver somewhere with my wife so she'll be set. Then I have six more segments to go. Probably going to visit my parents in NYC PIT-LGA-PIT and then one segment run at the end of the year.

The following status is already set:

Marriott Platinum till 01/02 (earned)
American Airlines Platinum till 02/02 (challenge)
Starwood Gold till 09/01 (comped)
Hilton Gold till 01/02 (comped)
Hertz President's Circle till 01/02 (earned)

The following status will expire:

Hyatt Platinum in 02/01 (comped, never used)

Got off to a late start this year (in-town client for 2 months), but I've tried to keep top level on 2 airlines and 2 hotels.

United - 50/60 segments, 40k/50k miles for PE. With over a dozen segments cancelled on me, I would be PremEx by now, but am still 10 short. That reminds me, I need to go get some refunds from these guys!

Southwest - 80 segments toward Companion Pass. If I'm short, I'll just transfer DC points to get there.

Continental - 1 segment, but may still go for the Elite challenge (2 RTs for Silver, 5 for Gold)

Hyatt - 58 nights (Diamond)

Marriott - only 58 nights, but at one point had 75 in the previous 12 months, so that's good enough for Platinum!

AA - Doesn't look real good: 4,820 miles which is not good for anything.

DL - In the clear for the 4th year: 109,000 miles in done and/or already booked travel.

Hotels: I stay in so many different that I'm not even close with any program so I rely on Clarion and Wyndham with their instant gratification.

Hertz: Should make 5 Star.

/Pete

AS MVP, although no shot at MVP Gold.

That's about it, unfortunately. Nothing on United, because I stopped flying them. I originally thought I might get somewhere with AA, but I'm now directing AA flights to my AS account.

This year I'm doing a mileage run next week for 1K (98,400 miles on UA) so I"ll be 1K on UAL.

I'm AA plat but that's expiring as I haven't flown AA at all this year

I am US preferred gold but have only done 30K miles so I guess I'll be silver next year until the merger takes place http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

I began concentrating my hotel stays with Starwood but have no elite status there as yet.

Am Avis select and I like that...will contineu with Avis.

If CO buys "DC air" I'll get onto CO also.