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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #80 on: January 20, 2016, 02:25:39 PM »
But, of course.
How do you decide that? Do you actually have TA's search the cheapest rates for your flights? Leg by leg? Different segments together? etc. or do you just use a standard rate that you find on Google Flights/OTA?

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #81 on: January 20, 2016, 02:26:36 PM »
2015 was relatively quiet for me:



Total flown: 13,511
Some flights alone, most with DW.

Miles spent:
DL = 25,000
MR = 56,000
UR = 78,906
$484.18

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #82 on: January 20, 2016, 02:27:25 PM »
Do you have the dollar value of all the trips that you took in 2015? I'm keeping track of it for my 2016 trips. I think that's the most fun to keep track of. Literally cents on the dollar.

How about the value you put on each of the premium longhaul flights? Literally cents on the dollar as well :)

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #83 on: January 20, 2016, 02:27:29 PM »
... do we have to pull teeth?  :)

See edited post.

How do you decide that? Do you actually have TA's search the cheapest rates for your flights? Leg by leg? Different segments together? etc. or do you just use a standard rate that you find on Google Flights/OTA?

Take the cheapest way to construct the itin I have. No, I definitely don't go leg by leg. Often query TAs, yes.
2015: 116K bkd | 1.6M brnd | F: OZ,NH,AA,EK | J: UA,CA,TK,DL,TN,AF,VA | LIH,NRT,ROR,PEK,CNS,BOB,MEL,TLV & Pacific Hopper

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #84 on: January 20, 2016, 02:28:53 PM »
Start here and add the trips I did without the kids :)
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=17753.0

Meh.

You traveled in 2015; the above post just means you didn't keep track in 2015 :)
2015: 116K bkd | 1.6M brnd | F: OZ,NH,AA,EK | J: UA,CA,TK,DL,TN,AF,VA | LIH,NRT,ROR,PEK,CNS,BOB,MEL,TLV & Pacific Hopper

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #85 on: January 20, 2016, 02:30:38 PM »
Guilty.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #86 on: January 20, 2016, 02:31:12 PM »


I'm a domestic traveler.

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #87 on: January 20, 2016, 02:33:51 PM »
Start here and add the trips I did without the kids :)
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=17753.0

I charge by the hour, I'm not cheap.

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #88 on: January 20, 2016, 02:35:34 PM »
OK, heres what i put together in a couple minutes. Im sure there is more and ill edit it soon when i have a chance to remember, was not as much as i had hoped to travel. Take into account all done with an infant.
Obviously in premium

« Last Edit: January 20, 2016, 02:44:53 PM by Emkay »

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #89 on: January 20, 2016, 02:35:58 PM »
But, of course. $124,734.65.
Amazing. But for some reason I thought it would be more.

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #90 on: January 20, 2016, 02:38:34 PM »
I'm a domestic traveler.
You earned 100K from SW flights!?! You need more miles, my friend.

OK, heres what i put together in a couple minutes. Im sure there is more and ill edit it soon when i have a chance to remember, was not as much as i had hoped to travel. Obviously in premium
I want to know how many trips to VCE?  :D

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #91 on: January 20, 2016, 02:39:39 PM »



I want to know how many trips to VCE?  :D
that's classified, but there is another one in around a month or two


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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #92 on: January 20, 2016, 02:40:24 PM »
Amazing. But for some reason I thought it would be more.

I guess. FWIW, 2014 was more.
2015: 116K bkd | 1.6M brnd | F: OZ,NH,AA,EK | J: UA,CA,TK,DL,TN,AF,VA | LIH,NRT,ROR,PEK,CNS,BOB,MEL,TLV & Pacific Hopper

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #93 on: January 20, 2016, 02:41:09 PM »
OK, heres what i put together in a couple minutes. Im sure there is more and ill edit it soon when i have a chance to remember, was not as much as i had hoped to travel. Obviously in premium


miles flown?

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #94 on: January 20, 2016, 02:42:26 PM »
2015: 116K bkd | 1.6M brnd | F: OZ,NH,AA,EK | J: UA,CA,TK,DL,TN,AF,VA | LIH,NRT,ROR,PEK,CNS,BOB,MEL,TLV & Pacific Hopper

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #95 on: January 20, 2016, 02:42:39 PM »
miles flown?
Around 50k I think. I'll make a full spreadsheet hopefully later

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #96 on: January 20, 2016, 02:55:25 PM »
I probably missed a bunch of business flights, but here's the bulk of my 2015 travels:


Grand total: 100 segments, 88,265 flown miles, not too many redeemed miles

Miles burned:
SQ: 172,125
M&M: 44,000
BA: 245,000
UA: 10,000
SW: 13,637

Total: 484,762


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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #97 on: January 20, 2016, 02:58:09 PM »
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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
« Reply #98 on: January 20, 2016, 03:03:09 PM »
You earned 100K from SW flights!?! You need more miles, my friend.

Miles are for personal travel. Dollars are for business travel.

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Re: Year In Review: 2015 Edition
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