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Most people are either spending miles or company money. And if they're spending miles, it's still usually miles from company money.
by trimbo 9y ago
Most people are either spending miles or company money. And if they're spending miles, it's still usually miles from company money.
- chx 9y agoOr from credit card churning, manufactured spending, or, in the most extreme case, pudding.
- deoxxa 9y agoI'd like to hear more about pudding.
- dmanchester 9y agoI presume that was a reference to this fellow: http://gizmodo.com/how-an-engineer-earned-1-25-million-air-miles-by-buying-1339646546 http://gizmodo.com/how-an-engineer-earned-1-25-million-air-m...
- delroth 9y agoReference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Phillips_(entrepreneur) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Phillips_(entrepreneur)
- ghaff 9y agoInternational upgrades still tend to require fairly substantial co-pays. Nothing like paying the whole thing in cash but still in the multi-hundreds of dollars.
- sersi 9y agoThat depends, I recently booked a "round the world" trip in first class with miles (total distance traveled 19500 miles and 5 different cities visited so not really round the world) and in total I only paid 400 usd in taxes and fees and 205,000 miles. If you can get the miles from churning, I wouldn't say that the co-pay is particularly onerous, it's much less than it would have cost to buy all the tickets in economy.
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- solutionyogi 9y agoThat's impressive. I want to now more, is there any way to reach out to you?
- chx 9y agoTry http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/
- ghaff 9y agoThat's pretty good. United is around $500 one-way for trans-oceanic upgrades to business plus around 25K miles. A pretty decent bargain over just buying a business class ticket but not a trivial cost either. I do it now and then but I'm selective.
- wickawic 9y agoSpending company money means you're rich
- blackguardx 9y agoI've flown company-paid business class flights that cost something like 5% of my pretax income. Who spends 5% of their income on a weeklong trip multiple times a year?