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Jul 19, 2004, 8:33 am
#106
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 762
Since I don't think I ever replied before...
I'm a 22 year old recent college grad that lives in DC. I work on Capitol Hill (read: long hours little pay) and fly mainly for pleasure. I first got SP 2 years ago and reached GP last year. I SHOULD make GP again for next year.
I'm a 22 year old recent college grad that lives in DC. I work on Capitol Hill (read: long hours little pay) and fly mainly for pleasure. I first got SP 2 years ago and reached GP last year. I SHOULD make GP again for next year.
Jul 19, 2004, 10:57 am
#107
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Reading, PA
Programs: US lowlife
Posts: 2,006
I'm a 24 year old Network Engineer from Reading, PA (RDG) and currently working for a global infrastructure and outsourcing company located outside of Philadelphia.
My flying is all leisure, all out of my pocket. I used to fly a lot of E-saver ROC-PHL and cheapie ROC-PIT/PHL-RDG fares when I was living up in ROC for college (RIT). I qualified for SP back in December of 2003 with a SP challenge that US offered.
Since 2001 I've flown all US except for part of a MR. Some highlights include:
* PHL-LGW-PHL for $325, upgraded to Envoy via some FTers, qualified for SP in 2003.
* 6-segment UA/US BUF-IAD-PIT-BWI-PHL-IAD-BUF $110 all-in
* SYR-PIT-LAX-PHL-SYR $154 all-in (Landing in LAX they announced the "connecting flight information" with PHL - Loved the looks for a 10min stopover
)
* Highest paid fare: $350 (ROC-ORF, 1 day advance Q fare)
* Lowest paid fare: $76.70 (PHL-PVD, $58 WN-matching T fare)
Qualified for SP in '03, '04, and have made SP for '05.
My flying is all leisure, all out of my pocket. I used to fly a lot of E-saver ROC-PHL and cheapie ROC-PIT/PHL-RDG fares when I was living up in ROC for college (RIT). I qualified for SP back in December of 2003 with a SP challenge that US offered.
Since 2001 I've flown all US except for part of a MR. Some highlights include:
* PHL-LGW-PHL for $325, upgraded to Envoy via some FTers, qualified for SP in 2003.
* 6-segment UA/US BUF-IAD-PIT-BWI-PHL-IAD-BUF $110 all-in
* SYR-PIT-LAX-PHL-SYR $154 all-in (Landing in LAX they announced the "connecting flight information" with PHL - Loved the looks for a 10min stopover
)* Highest paid fare: $350 (ROC-ORF, 1 day advance Q fare)
* Lowest paid fare: $76.70 (PHL-PVD, $58 WN-matching T fare)
Qualified for SP in '03, '04, and have made SP for '05.
Jul 19, 2004, 3:24 pm
#108
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Treasure Coast Florida
Programs: USA Dividend miles soon to be AAdvantage
Posts: 723
Love this thread!!!! I have read all of the replies and there is quite a cross section here.
I am a Jersey Girl by birth, a Virginian by choice (30 yrs in Roanoke area) and now live, love and work in Heidelberg Germany for the last 2 yrs. I was in the manufacturing sector as an electronics purchaser until the market crashed. Decided to take advantage of life's lemons and make lemonade. Came to Germany to bicycle Europe and wound up staying, connecting with a great guy who was starting a small internet portal software company. We are writing a book together about cheap biking/camping in Europe (great research!). We are both computer Geeks and live on the 'ole PC when we aren't biking the EU. I discovered international flight and FF miles 3 years ago and am working towards those perks slowly. Envoy then FC? Maybe '05 I will hit SP? I am one of those DP's (Dirt Preferred) but I got my Signature Card now! (Flew to Rome for 15 Euro via Ryanair once!)
2 grown sons and a big Italian family cheering me on.
Heading to France July 20 to Besancon to see Lance Armstrong get closer to winning the Tour de France. Then on to Vienna…. All by bike!
I am a Jersey Girl by birth, a Virginian by choice (30 yrs in Roanoke area) and now live, love and work in Heidelberg Germany for the last 2 yrs. I was in the manufacturing sector as an electronics purchaser until the market crashed. Decided to take advantage of life's lemons and make lemonade. Came to Germany to bicycle Europe and wound up staying, connecting with a great guy who was starting a small internet portal software company. We are writing a book together about cheap biking/camping in Europe (great research!). We are both computer Geeks and live on the 'ole PC when we aren't biking the EU. I discovered international flight and FF miles 3 years ago and am working towards those perks slowly. Envoy then FC? Maybe '05 I will hit SP? I am one of those DP's (Dirt Preferred) but I got my Signature Card now! (Flew to Rome for 15 Euro via Ryanair once!)
2 grown sons and a big Italian family cheering me on.
Heading to France July 20 to Besancon to see Lance Armstrong get closer to winning the Tour de France. Then on to Vienna…. All by bike!
Jul 19, 2004, 7:50 pm
#109
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lehighton, PA, USA,HH Gold, US Plat
Posts: 467
ABE Loyalist, But GoFares Got Me to PHL
50ish Bankruptcy Attorney who moonlights as editor for three legal publications. Just back from SAN with my 21 year old son who took me below the border for tequilla. This trip drove to PHL since still no fare rationalization between ABE and PHL. 
Jul 19, 2004, 9:31 pm
#110
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
Programs: AA Executive Platinum
Posts: 2,085
I'm a student flying almost entirely for leisure (trips home, to visit family, or vacation) most frequently out of WAS and BOS when I'm on US. Home for me is Fairfax, VA, about 20 minutes from downtown Washington, DC. I love everything about DCA, don't mind IAD, try to avoid BWI because the drive is just unbearable! I fly a lot on other carriers, and if I devoted most of my travel to just US, as I plan to do now, I think I can qualify for Gold. My AS MVP and HP Silver status will both expire this year, and I'm ok with that since I'll be flying almost exclusively US now.
I agree that this is a great thread. And I love FT; I've learned so much from this forum in particular.
And can someone explain to me what all this priority gold nonsense is about?
I agree that this is a great thread. And I love FT; I've learned so much from this forum in particular.
And can someone explain to me what all this priority gold nonsense is about?
Jul 20, 2004, 4:56 am
#112
In memoriam
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: IAD, BOS, PVD
Programs: UA, US, AS, Marriott, Radisson, Hilton
Posts: 7,203
who I all am
Mid-50s, in a committed relationship, violist, part-time
editor and "intellectual jack-of-all-trades"; US newbie
traveling to see my girlfriend every couple weekends,
honest GP, fast-track CP. If you see someone with a
violin or viola case in F on US, it's someone else - I
keep an instrument at Carol's. If you see someone with
a violin or viola case in F on UA, chances are good it is
I (I'm BIS 1K the last 5 or 6 years). Hope to make it to
the Roachfest but may have a conflict.
editor and "intellectual jack-of-all-trades"; US newbie
traveling to see my girlfriend every couple weekends,
honest GP, fast-track CP. If you see someone with a
violin or viola case in F on US, it's someone else - I
keep an instrument at Carol's. If you see someone with
a violin or viola case in F on UA, chances are good it is
I (I'm BIS 1K the last 5 or 6 years). Hope to make it to
the Roachfest but may have a conflict.
Jul 20, 2004, 6:00 pm
#113
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lehighton, PA, USA,HH Gold, US Plat
Posts: 467
who is iflyswa?
I generally am a lurker on this board, but I keep reading from www.iflyswa.com with all negative comments downing everything about US and praising SWA. I was interested to read something about him, but reviewing this thread, I didn't find him chiming in. Did I miss it? Could he be a paid SWA employe and not want us FF to know? After all his name takes you directly to SWA's website! 
Jul 21, 2004, 10:24 am
#114
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Southwest US
Programs: AA (US) gold, HH gold, Bonvoy gold
Posts: 332
This is an interesting thread. I lurk 4-5 times per week. Middle-aged, family guy, US Gold for about 5 years almost all leisure, but the 2-3 buisness trips for my medical continuing education are always on USAirways - to keep up the status. I have made milage runs 3 or 4 times just to keep up gold.
Jul 21, 2004, 12:20 pm
#115
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Programs: Now a lowly US PP
Posts: 199
I'm in a Philly burb, married with a 7-year-old daughter, in my early (early for another 5 months) 30s. I'm in the publishing business: I produce a clinical contact lens journal and special projects for our optometry and ophthalmology journals. So I talk to a lot of eye doctors. Most of my flying is for business, although I am beginning to fly for vacations as well. Gotta get over the mindset of driving everywhere. When you were raised in the Poconos in the '70s, you went "down the shore" for vacations. Flying someplace for vacation is a concept!
Jul 21, 2004, 1:51 pm
#116
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: AVL
Programs: AA EXP ; Cunard Plat
Posts: 4,211
I retired early four years ago from law practice and have been travelin' since - perhaps a continuation of my public service days in diplomacy but this time on my own dime! Cruised a lot at first (Cunard Plat), but mostly fly these days. US is my airline of choice, although *A has broadened my range somewhat (collecting those Miles can get addictive ). Several annual trips to Asia also gets me NW Gold.
When I do weekend trips on US, I usually have another US CP and a non-elite friend or two along - we take our chances with upgrades. On longer trips, I usually travel alone to visit friends/family, or just to explore.
Relatively new to FT - lots of good, informed opinions here. I'm slowly getting into meeting other FTs - at Roachfest'04 and other FT "Do"s.
). Several annual trips to Asia also gets me NW Gold.When I do weekend trips on US, I usually have another US CP and a non-elite friend or two along - we take our chances with upgrades. On longer trips, I usually travel alone to visit friends/family, or just to explore.
Relatively new to FT - lots of good, informed opinions here. I'm slowly getting into meeting other FTs - at Roachfest'04 and other FT "Do"s.
Jul 21, 2004, 3:19 pm
#117
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Near PHL, PA and GCM, CI and sometimes PLJ, Placencia. Belize
Programs: AA-EXP, DL-Gold, Bonvoy-Gold
Posts: 246
Another from PHL
Great thread...
Relative Newbie - mostly focus on US, *wood, and Amex forums, but love all of FT. The only problem is that it is so good that I could spend 3 or 4 hours a day reading it all.....
From the handle, the homebase just outside PHL is obvious I guess. Will very unfortunately miss RoachFest due to....(drum roll)....travel !! Hope that someone will post extensive notes - and opinions. For someone who will be there - Please, tell them not to try to gradually turn into Southwest - its a sure path to failure !!! We enjoy the US product (mostly), have many 100,000s of US miles, and really are rooting for their survival.
Mid 50s, was in investment banking, M&A, and venture capital, now mostly a private investor, some corporate and not-for-profit boards, lots of odds and ends, and....travel.
Multi-year CP, Mrs PhillyFive also CP, both basically from 100% leisure travel, plus, of course, all the great tips we get here on FT. Three kids normally include one or more SP - even back when they were 10 or 15... We used to be mostly UA, but when US put its European hub here they won us over (we typically do 4 or 5 trips to Europe per year). Now we also use US for frequent Caribbean travel, as well as most in the USA. With *Alliance, our next Asia trip may have US benefits as well !!
Now we return you to your regularly scheduled thread....
Relative Newbie - mostly focus on US, *wood, and Amex forums, but love all of FT. The only problem is that it is so good that I could spend 3 or 4 hours a day reading it all.....
From the handle, the homebase just outside PHL is obvious I guess. Will very unfortunately miss RoachFest due to....(drum roll)....travel !! Hope that someone will post extensive notes - and opinions. For someone who will be there - Please, tell them not to try to gradually turn into Southwest - its a sure path to failure !!! We enjoy the US product (mostly), have many 100,000s of US miles, and really are rooting for their survival.
Mid 50s, was in investment banking, M&A, and venture capital, now mostly a private investor, some corporate and not-for-profit boards, lots of odds and ends, and....travel.
Multi-year CP, Mrs PhillyFive also CP, both basically from 100% leisure travel, plus, of course, all the great tips we get here on FT. Three kids normally include one or more SP - even back when they were 10 or 15... We used to be mostly UA, but when US put its European hub here they won us over (we typically do 4 or 5 trips to Europe per year). Now we also use US for frequent Caribbean travel, as well as most in the USA. With *Alliance, our next Asia trip may have US benefits as well !!
Now we return you to your regularly scheduled thread....
Sep 27, 2005, 7:18 pm
#118
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Programs: UA 1K 1MMer & LT UC (when flying UA); Hyatt Credit Cardist; HHonors Diamond; Marriott Gold via UA 1K
Posts: 6,956
Welcome to HP Posters!
In honor of the merger and to welcome all of our new HP posters, I'm reviving this old thread.
Sep 27, 2005, 7:55 pm
#119
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: HKY
Programs: DL-DM MM & RW, UAL- PS, Marriott Lifetime PLT, SPG-PLT, Hilton-Gold
Posts: 4,468
Originally Posted by SS255
In honor of the merger and to welcome all of our new HP posters, I'm reviving this old thread.
My first thought when looking back over this thread is that alot of friends no longer post here. Wonder where they have gone?
I'll update my info while I'm here. I'm now the US sales manger for a major Canadian furniture company and traveling over 250 segments a year. One son is about to graduate from Ga. Tech and the second is a sophmore at UNC Tweetsie (ASU). Our daughter is a senior in high school which is making me feel very old.
I was once a loyal cockroach, but have spent most of my time on DL this year. When they started service in HKY it made it tough to not fly them. I have also spent most of my time the past year throwing rocks (and lipstick) at US management. Glad to see them go, but I do wish the employees and friends at the new US the best.
It will be interesting to see who the new folks are. Welcome to the US forum....
Last edited by longing4piedmont; Sep 27, 2005 at 8:09 pm
Sep 27, 2005, 8:48 pm
#120
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: West Palm Beach
Programs: Free Agent
Posts: 791
26 year old traffic engineer, living in south Florida. Most of my travel is on my own dime to visit friends or explore new places, and this year I'll qualify for Chairmans as part of the challenge (would have been a Gold otherwise). Have been known to jaunt across the country for a weekend. Fly out of PBI (West Palm Beach, Florida) or Fort Lauderdale.