Average segment length
 

Hi,
Just saw my YTD totals for United Mileage Plus. 71810 miles in 14 segments. That makes it 5129 miles per segment. And boy does my butt feel it sometimes.

Anyone have a larger average segment mileage?

tim in san jose

Older, but the same question:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...eage-year.html

Thanks, good read. Time to ask it again. I didn't see any in that particular thread with over 5000 miles/segment.

tim in san jose

from my openflights so far for 2011:

overall:
50 segments
101555 miles

United:
14 segments
22355 miles

Lifetime United:
56 segments
108081 miles
so I guess an average of 1930 miles/UA segment

Right now I'm at about 4000, with 67,300 / 17 segments. Mostly ORD-GRU (5252) with a few connecting through IAD and a family vacation or two to bring down the average.

Mine is smaller. :D

BIS (not counting reward tickets, excluding 500 mile min)
All *A: 579 mi, std. 289 mi
UA: 558 mi, std. 375 mi

Counting the 500 mile min:
All *A: 661 mi, std. of 201 mi
UA: 679 mi, std. of 277 mi

I'm not sure which is worse: your average segment length, or the year I qualified for US Chairmans Preferred on segments. 200 segments in a single year is no fun.

4149

If you're really bored, covert your flight time into how much radiation you're received in units of chest x-rays. I'm at around 23 (~20% error) YTD.

I seem to have an average of 2551 for this year.

Last year, I had 5255, though. But only in the rather trivial sense that I only took two United flights last year.

k_jupiter: Out of curiosity, do you do your domestic US flying on another airline? Or are your domestic flights cancelled out with a bunch of 6000+ milers? Or do you just not fly domestically in the US at all?

890 - this may be my highest ever... Sad, eh?

105245 EQMs
93.5 EQS

Average = 1125

101,285 EQM
34 EQS
2979 avg

though, looking at another 15k EQM in the next two months with 6 more segments so that might lower my avg to 2900 avg.

Much more domestic this year than usual and bunch of LAX-SFO hops and connections on trans-cons.

Currently:

92,508 BIS (excluding EQM bonus)
60 Segments (excluding EQM bonus)
1,542 per segment

I feel for you....
 

That's a lot of waiting in airports. I wonder if you start to think of it as a horizontal elevator.

Have you found that your pressure equalization changed from all the take offs and landings? I use to have terrible problems when I flew 30 or 40 times a year in the 80's. Now I don't even use hard candy.

tim in san jose

4029 eqm/segment

What is the conversion factor? I have 14 flights of an average of 10.5 hours.
Plus I didn't count the freebee SFO to FRA, nor my single DL cross country trip for personal use (never again). Average altitude? 36,000 feet? Over the upper Arctic (holes in the ozone)? As Monty Python would say... "I'm not dead yet".

And I got out of graphics arts because of the chemical dangers.

*L*

Will be making my second domestic business flight next week for this year, SFO-BOS. My usual trip is SFO-FRA or SFO-LHR. The other trip domestic this year was a DL vacation trip to ATL for a wedding. Missed those E+ seats.

Last year I had 19 segments for ~80,000 miles. None of those was domestic except when they had to route me through IAD after missing a connection in FRA.

tim in san jose

1994 EQM/segment

This year

83,837 EQM
85.5 EQS

Average EQM per flight = 980.55

Wish I had longer flights than my DEN to SJC weekly round trip. Would of hit 1k on segments before miles if they never would of changed the qualfication to 120.

195,890 EQM
82 segments

2,389 per

112,148 EQM
45.5 Segments

2465 per segment

Just MP:
EQM: 39,933
EQS: 41.5

EQM/Segment: 962

Adding in OP:
EQM: 42,433
EQS: 46.5

EQM/Segment: 912

Hi k_jupiter, I'd have to redo the work - I threw it out after I discovered that even after ~210,000 BIS miles, I was well within "safe" limits. Aircrews get much higher exposures. I did account for location, air speed where possible, and used exposure/locality data from various research papers. It took a few hours and I was seriously bored.. :) I think roughly you're looking at 12hrs=1 chest x-ray. Though there can be lots of variance in either direction..

Like 515 a segment. Vegas trip screwed up my perfect average:)

It's going to go up, I go to Denver next week and Chicago the week after. I could get to like 540 a segment or so

Me..I have 56474 Actual Miles and 123 Actual Segments...yeah the rough way to earn 1K! Thats 459Miles/Segment with the 500 min I'm still only at 76K miles. I am a frequent flier!

48250 EQM / 45.5 segments = 1060 avg miles per flight. Almost half of my segments are SBN-ORD though which is only 84 miles so my number would be a lot less without the 500 miles minimum.

Final for the year I think....
 

100,553 in 23 segments == 4371.9 miles per segment.

Last one a jaunt for the long weekend to Albuquerque with the GF.

1K for the year.

tim in san jose

Who's right at 833 miles per segment (the "break even" point for 1K EQSs vs. EQMs)?

3401

The MEL-SYD-MEL segments kill me :(

Bring back MEL-LAX-MEL flights!

Our final tally for 2011:

Just MP:
EQM: 43,067
EQS: 47.5

EQM/Segment: 907

Adding in OP:
EQM: 45,567
EQS: 52.5

EQM/Segment: 868

2301 EQM/Segment this year

29 EQS
50,018 (:D) EQM
1724 per segment

No bonuses, so it's all BIS.

167K, 127 segments = 1315 average

My mileage run from yesterday's only partly posted.

20,738 Status miles (EQM)
10.0 Status segments (EQS)

Why *is* it 10.0, anyway? Since segments are segments, that seems odd to note them in fractional values.

because of 0.5 segment class of service bonus.

290K EQM'S
170 EQS
1706 Average

Flew another 11 reward segments for ~25K miles

Ahh, of course. I still need more coffee after yesterday's MR....

I'll make plat on segments (92) this year. Right now, my projected year end average eqm/segment is a measly 673. If I take out the 500 mile minimums (the only non BIS eqms I have) it drops to 571.

On the bright side of things, I cleared 41 upgrades on these 92 segments - not all bad considering I had 31 flights on CRJ2/E145 with no f cabin. 41 out of 61 is 67% UDU rate.

Nice. Damned nice.

My UDU rate is... 2/23. I suspect I'll do a little better next year.

tim in san jose