Presently sitting on 51 segments and 45553 miles toward AA Platinum. Looking at 6-10 more segments. These segments are SEA-SJC at 697 miles each. If it is only 6, I will wind up with 57 segments and 49735 miles. Does AA have a sense of humor?

If not, I have a $300 voucher.

I would have so say, YES, I am going to slide across the threshold.

Good luck to everyone.

A "new" Non-frequent (but maybe as crazy as FFers)'s report:

In my life earned:
NW: 2xxxxmiles (mainly from NRT-HKG connection of AA's ticket)
UA: 2xxxxmiles (2 trips only)
AA: 3xxxxmiles (my "target" airline)

Elite:
Starwood: Comped Gold
AA: "YTD Q-mile" to be GOLD qualifly after my paid Thanksgiving trip and highly possible PLAT from Challenge after planned Christmas trip.

*** Please Vote ***
Would you trade 4-day in your holiday (stay home instead in Europe) for 10000 Q-miles and 15000 Bonus mile?

Made Exec Platinum by flying 103,000 by Sept 1. Will be flying LAX-RIC and LAX to JFK this month followed by two mileage runs from LAX-LHR on Nov 10 and Dec 1. Using my VIP2 to upgrade to business class on a coach paid fare of only $480.00 round trip

Made mine back in June, just not sure if I'll make 2K this year http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif I'm only at 140K and counting. 83 Hilton nights and increasing also.


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Cheers Scott


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NW: 113,000 flight miles already. Have Platinum for 4th straight year.

UA: 0 flights. They comped me to Prem EX in June and then wasted it with their troubles this year. I can't book a "maybe" flight!

Marriott: Silver for next year.

Slow year until Saturday's trip to NRT, with return will get me to 19,000 UA miles. Figured one PDX-NYC trip for the remaining 6,000, then decided to shoot for PremEx again with all the bonus miles floating around. Will probably do a long weekend PDX-IAD-LHR-IAD-PDX for 12,000, another long weekend to a UA Europe city (another 12K), and one PDX-LAX-PDX for the roundup to PremExec. Am tempted to do New Zealand or Hong Kong instead.

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"If you want to win the game, write the rules."

2000:

- AA Exec Platinum
- Hilton Gold
- Hyatt Platinum

2001:

- AA Platinum, if my mileage runs work out (2x LAX-LHR, and I'm doing one of them on the 2nd Weekend in December, OneDog). I changed jobs and have not had nearly as much travel, the majority of my 2000 travel has been personal! I'm really going to miss EXP!
- Hilton Gold
- Loosing Hyatt Platinum (was comped anyway by Hyatt for being EXP, had one stay this year)

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US Airways Gold Preferred - sitting at 47,000+ miles for the year. No problem getting the last 3k by year's end.

I used to feel sorry for people like me.

Delta - PM - Hit 100 segments this week

No other airlines, I live in Atlanta

Hilton - Already hit Diamond

Marriott - Already hit Gold

Starwood - Comped to Gold

UA 1k 140,000 miles so far this year, another 40k or so to go, planned 220k next year

marriott platinum. 200+ nights this year, 300+ planned next year

Qualified for 2001 CO Platinum (in July). Also made Platinum level in Marriott and Starwood programs.

LOL, Darn I lost my Philly Connection frequent cheesesteakers card....

AA
2000
Platinum this year (from Challenge)
2001
24K this year, I'll do another 4K by the end of the year for Gold.

NW
2000
comped to Silver
2001
6K so far, but should be doing 20K by the end of the year.

My flight time dropped this year. I haven't done a business trip since June. I'll be doing about 12 by the end of the year.

PerrySSoCal


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joyfully subversive

I'm currently NW Platinum for 2000. I earned 9337 miles in Jan '00, return from BKK to ORD, 17,512 miles in Feb '00 ORD-MNL, 9,030 miles in Apr '00 for 2 mileage runs ORD-LAX, 19,568 miles in May '00 ORD-BKK, so my current mileage total is 55,447. I'll earn 19,568 miles in Nov/Dec '00 for ORD-BKK which will give me a total of 75,015. This will get me Platinum again for 2001. Yes, I only travel for pleasure, no business travel.

Two personal European trips on NW this year to stay silver, then business travel shifted to include trips to LA. Realized that I would then be pretty close to 50K. I massaged my Nov and Dec itineraries and will make Gold with about 150 miles to spare. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif Our corporate reservationist thinks I'm nuts, and says hardly anyone here does this. What is WRONG with these people??