In the end, for a one time cost of a little over $3000 (or a little over $2200 if you subtract the tax deduction), and a few other similar deals he’s taken advantage of to bolster his numbers, David never has to pay for a flight in his life ever again. Genius.
Serious problem with logic here... He got 1.2M miles for $3000 + who knows how many hours of work. That's it. "Never has to pay" part is due to his continuing working/spending on all this deals, and not related. 1.2M is about 20 good tickets in Y2K prices if I remember those times right. + perks, whatever that means. And probably 12 good tickets now. Mind you, $3000 itself would buy you 5 to 10 tickets in before 9/11 prices...
1.2M / 25000 = 48. But the point is taken; my family would spend it in 2-3 years. I was more curious how the pudding miles got him into the top-tear frequent flyer category. Maybe it was different that time, but now you have to actually fly the miles to get your freq flyer medallion - yes, there are multipliers, but you have to have non-zero base miles for that to work.
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Date: 2013-09-27 05:29 pm (UTC)Serious problem with logic here... He got 1.2M miles for $3000 + who knows how many hours of work. That's it. "Never has to pay" part is due to his continuing working/spending on all this deals, and not related. 1.2M is about 20 good tickets in Y2K prices if I remember those times right. + perks, whatever that means. And probably 12 good tickets now. Mind you, $3000 itself would buy you 5 to 10 tickets in before 9/11 prices...
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Date: 2013-09-27 05:42 pm (UTC)I was more curious how the pudding miles got him into the top-tear frequent flyer category. Maybe it was different that time, but now you have to actually fly the miles to get your freq flyer medallion - yes, there are multipliers, but you have to have non-zero base miles for that to work.