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Frequent Flyer Programs Records In Miles Per Year.  
User currently offlinehovitzer From Israel, joined Jul 2005, 50 posts, RR: 0
Posted (2 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 791 times:

The question is whether it is an accessible information or classified as commercial?
Is it is within programs' interest to publish such?
My personal oppinion is that it scores around 250k. It reflects numerous transatlantic crossings each month with some mid-haul experiences.
-Hovitzer

[Edited 2013-03-18 09:51:57]

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User currently offlineflyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1005 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (2 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 747 times:

I'm pretty sure that this guy holds the record:

http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/travel...ies-1-million-miles-year-1C7661414


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User currently offlineflyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1005 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (2 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 718 times:

And 250K, while a lot, is probably nowhere near the top.

Let me give you some examples:

Emirates recently introduced a new frequent flyer program tier (Platinum) for which the qualification hurdle is 250K miles in one year.

Lufthansa's top tier (HON Circle) requires 600K miles within two calendar years.

SAS's top tier (Eurobonus Pandion) is given to the airline's top 3000 customers, and it requires similar levels of flying.


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User currently offlinealoges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8358 posts, RR: 47
Reply 3, posted (2 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 577 times:

I'd just like to provide some perspective on the relation between status miles and miles flown:

Quoting flyingalex (Reply 2):
Lufthansa's top tier (HON Circle) requires 600K miles within two calendar years.

It does require 600K status miles, but (unless they've changed that again) those must be earned in business or first class where you can already accrue multiples of the miles that you've actually flown. Add the 25% mileage bonus that you get as soon as you're M&M silver (lowest tier) and 600K status miles is nowhere near the same as 600K miles on an aircraft.


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