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I'm at 113 AA segments with probably 40 more before the end of the year I also have 20 united segments  Although getting upgrades 72 hours out is rad and I'm like 17/20 for upgrades so far since plat pro
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Cacafuego posted:I'm at 113 AA segments with probably 40 more before the end of the year Yes, upgrades onto your 1 hr flights to Saginaw.
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Sep 24, 2017 13:52
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i fly airplanes posted:Yes, upgrades onto your 1 hr flights to Saginaw. if i have to go to sag i better go in comfort
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Sep 25, 2017 10:19
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*sigh* departing out of D60 MIA The D60 gates are such a poo poo show
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Sep 25, 2017 19:06
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Waroduce posted:*sigh* departing out of D60 MIA Are those the ones waaaayyy at the west end of the terminal? I've only been through them for a DCA trip, and they're stupid. Super far from the amex club, and even if you show up too early the security dragons want you to go through the checkpoint closest to the gate, which means a train ride or a long walk.
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Sep 25, 2017 21:37
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I booked 2 seats MCO-LAX-SYD in J as a Saaver fare using AA miles on AA metal for next year. I'm looking forward to the experiencing the 789. Now I have to find a flight back, but I've got a ton of United miles and Chase URs.
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Sep 26, 2017 03:19
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Are one way fares ugly? The mileage upgrade is usually pretty successful on that route.
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Sep 26, 2017 05:04
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The difficulty is finding the availability.
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Sep 26, 2017 05:26
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I mean just buy the drat thing and put miles into the upgrade
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Sep 26, 2017 06:08
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sellouts posted:I mean just buy the drat thing and put miles into the upgrade I have plenty of miles, why not use them and not spend the money. That's what they're for
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Sep 26, 2017 12:03
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why is AA's website loving poo poo at multi-stop journeys gently caress you guys this isn't 1998
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Sep 26, 2017 15:08
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hahahah so the news today is Delta increasing the MQD waiver from 25,000 to 250,000 for Diamonds. And people are freaking out. Were there that many people flying 125,000 miles on Delta and not spending more than $12,500? The best part is the threatening messages about them canceling their AMEX cards and switching to another carrier.. good luck? AA doesn't even waive their EQDs. And UA doesn't either for 1K.
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Sep 26, 2017 20:26
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I go confused and thought MQD was going to 250k for a second. I'm all in favor, get these loving freeloaders out of my tier goddamn it. The MQD waiver was one of the last FT low spend high status jagoff routes left.
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Sep 26, 2017 20:47
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i fly airplanes posted:hahahah so the news today is Delta increasing the MQD waiver from 25,000 to 250,000 for Diamonds. And people are freaking out. Were there that many people flying 125,000 miles on Delta and not spending more than $12,500? AA does waive $3k / $6k of EQDs on their Barclay Aviator Red / Silver. A few EQMs as well.
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Sep 26, 2017 20:58
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i fly airplanes posted:hahahah so the news today is Delta increasing the MQD waiver from 25,000 to 250,000 for Diamonds. And people are freaking out. Were there that many people flying 125,000 miles on Delta and not spending more than $12,500? I'm at 123.5K miles and $7.3K MQD and its only that high because I had two paid first class tickets. This wipes out people making Diamond on international coach. Looks like 2018 will be my first and only year at Diamond because I only do 60-80K a year on my card. I'm fine with just being Platinum, it isn't worth it (see topic). I'm still going to keep both my Platinum and Business Platinum Delta cards because the BOGO tickets are worth more than the $195 fee for me.
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Sep 26, 2017 21:24
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Arzakon posted:I'm at 123.5K miles and $7.3K MQD and its only that high because I had two paid first class tickets. This wipes out people making Diamond on international coach. Looks like 2018 will be my first and only year at Diamond because I only do 60-80K a year on my card. I'm fine with just being Platinum, it isn't worth it (see topic). Consider flying partner airlines if you're low on MQD. Also fly Premium Economy. KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I go confused and thought MQD was going to 250k for a second. Agreed. Dollar store Diamonds. The fact that they can get such high status on just retarded credit card spending and no flying was dumb. All it did was encourage a bunch of people to hoard a whole ton of miles from spend and take the premium award seats. i fly airplanes fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Sep 26, 2017 |
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Sep 26, 2017 22:36
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[quote="“Cacafuego”" post="“476776922”"] I have plenty of miles, why not use them and not spend the money. That’s what they’re for [/quote] Because I thought you couldn't find availability? What I'm saying is that buying a cheap one way and spending the miles on upgrading with decent odds may be better? I found one ways to/from hkg to be affordable for this.
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Sep 27, 2017 00:21
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sellouts posted:Because I thought you couldn't find availability? What I'm saying is that buying a cheap one way and spending the miles on upgrading with decent odds may be better? Sorry, I misunderstood. I found the availability on the way there and booked it with AA miles. On the way back, there are actually quite a few united/star alliance saver business class options available depending on where we want to fly out from (Aus/NZ) and if we want to connect. I just have to narrow that down, but the options are there.
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Sep 27, 2017 02:02
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Are mileage upgrades a separate category from mileage awards? I would expect them to use there same bucket.
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Sep 27, 2017 02:26
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asur posted:Are mileage upgrades a separate category from mileage awards? I would expect them to use there same bucket. In most cases, yes, because they are segmented into different markets. Mileage upgrades = upgrades from revenue fares only, often fare restricted, often have co-pays, only for members of the airline Mileage awards = awards for everybody, including alliance members of other frequent flyer programs Elite mileage awards = awards only for elites of the program Instrument upgrades = upgrades from revenue fares, sometimes fare restricted, only for elites of the program All will involve different fare buckets, sometimes overlapping.
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Sep 27, 2017 05:16
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i fly airplanes posted:Consider flying partner airlines if you're low on MQD. Also fly Premium Economy. Yeah it let you coast on a buffer of MQM without actually flying much at all if you were a former high-spend-high MQM person. Arzakon posted:I'm at 123.5K miles and $7.3K MQD and its only that high because I had two paid first class tickets. This wipes out people making Diamond on international coach. Looks like 2018 will be my first and only year at Diamond because I only do 60-80K a year on my card. I'm fine with just being Platinum, it isn't worth it (see topic). that is a wild, wild split - where are you normally flying that you're only pulling 17 cents per MQM?
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Sep 27, 2017 07:36
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Man I never thought I'd say this, but Delta's regional jets were nice compared to this American A321 without power in any seat.
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Sep 27, 2017 10:09
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:that is a wild, wild split - where are you normally flying that you're only pulling 17 cents per MQM? If they have the platinum and the business platinum cards, and hits the first $25k spend threshold on both, thats 20k extra MQMs. Double that for hitting the $50k threshold on both, so having an extra 40k MQMs on the account without the MQDs behind it will dilute that number a little bit. edit: reviewed the numbers. $60k-$80k spend is 2 bonuses on one card, and 1 on the other for 30k extra MQMs.
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Sep 27, 2017 11:28
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i fly airplanes posted:Dollar store Diamonds. What's your flyertalk username?
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Sep 27, 2017 14:42
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It's me. I'm a dollar store diamond. I'm not happy about the change, but I'll be ok. I am bummed that Hilton is dumping Citi at the end of the year. I use the heck out of their 90 day price adjustments.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:50
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Residency Evil posted:Man I never thought I'd say this, but Delta's regional jets were nice compared to this American A321 without power in any seat. American mainline domestic in economy goes: 737 w/ seatback > 737 w/o > MD80 > A319 > A320 > A321 They have a few random 767s, 757s, etc. which are hit or miss and not every airbus has no power at the seats. Most A321s are the old US planes with bad first seats and no power anywhere. There are like two seats in the exit rows on the A321 which are good and don't have a seat in front of them.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:52
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Residency Evil posted:Man I never thought I'd say this, but Delta's regional jets were nice compared to this American A321 without power in any seat. The "A" side of first class on the CRJ900 is my favorite domestic seat.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:54
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Thoguh posted:The "A" side of first class on the CRJ900 is my favorite domestic seat. Those seats are nice with the 1-2 arrangement. The economy bulkhead seats on that plane are the best economy seats out there if you don't care about seatback power. It's American Eagle though which has its own problems.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:58
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Are those the ones waaaayyy at the west end of the terminal? I've only been through them for a DCA trip, and they're stupid. Super far from the amex club, and even if you show up too early the security dragons want you to go through the checkpoint closest to the gate, which means a train ride or a long walk. Miami Airport is a pretty lovely airport for being such an International Hub. I think you're talking about the E gates which are like all the way out west further than anything else in their own special terminal that you can walk literally a mile too, or you can take a train. The terminal is old and run down af and there is a lovely kiosk and a knock off cuban bakery place there. Thats it. the walls and the carpet are nasty AF the D60A-H (?) gates are at the end of again a very long loving walk through all the D gates (or take the sky car but its the same amount of time to walk it. I've timed it) when you get to d59 you get to go downstairs where you get one kind of conglomerate gate serving like idk 10-15 planes which turns into a mess cause lol gently caress you we dont space or stagger departures so you can have 3-5 planes boarding at the same time and through the same door and than you walk OUTSIDE through some ghetto fabulous aluminum walk ways and haul all your poo poo with you and get on the plane. MIA loving blows.
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Waroduce posted:MIA loving blows. I'm extremely lucky to not have to do regional travel (or fly from the United terminal, which is really similar to the E terminal and pre-2010-remodel D terminal in terms of shittiness) there, because the D gates for big-boy planes are fine, and the H terminal is pretty nice too.
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Sep 27, 2017 16:42
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Yeah it let you coast on a buffer of MQM without actually flying much at all if you were a former high-spend-high MQM person. Some of that is rollover and two 10K MQM bonuses from the cards. But poo poo like $400 SEA-HKG-SEA and $700 SEA-AMS-SEA keep it really low.
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Sep 27, 2017 17:01
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Thoguh posted:What's your flyertalk username? it's me, i'm flyertalk
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all right thread friends, who in here is a Star Alliance person? I'm probably doing BOS - FRA - MKE and Air Canada Premium Economy is shockingly cheap. The product looks good. How much am I going to hate myself for trying to save 30% over Lufthansa? gruss gott
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Sep 28, 2017 08:05
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I flew Air Canada from BOS - TOR - MAD and it was fine. I flew business class though...
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Sep 28, 2017 11:45
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:all right thread friends, who in here is a Star Alliance person? I'm probably doing BOS - FRA - MKE and Air Canada Premium Economy is shockingly cheap. The product looks good. How much am I going to hate myself for trying to save 30% over Lufthansa? It's not like you're flying Air China, so I think you'll be a-okay.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:all right thread friends, who in here is a Star Alliance person? I'm probably doing BOS - FRA - MKE and Air Canada Premium Economy is shockingly cheap. The product looks good. How much am I going to hate myself for trying to save 30% over Lufthansa? Germany seems like a weird place to connect for a domestic BOS-MKE trip!
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DJCobol posted:Germany seems like a weird place to connect for a domestic BOS-MKE trip! Man these mileage runs sure are a bitch
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DJCobol posted:Germany seems like a weird place to connect for a domestic BOS-MKE trip! Air Canada doesn't even fly to Germany from those places! In all seriousness AC and LH Premium Econ are kind of really similar.. I think. Business, on the other hand...
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Waroduce posted:Man these mileage runs sure are a bitch gotta get my status!!!! next time the dutch decide to exist i recommend that they don't live in the middle of a vast swamp that creates fog
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I like this thing where gate agents trick scrubs into checking their bags at the gate by emphasizing that it's F-R-E-E FREE
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