Sentences with phrase «butt in seat miles»

That meant you had to fly either 100,000 butt in seat miles or 67,000 + miles in paid premium cabins.

Unless you're forced to travel for business, earning butt in seat miles is a sad state of affairs.

Not exact matches

It was ready to hit the road and so was I, with a supply of caffeine in the back seat ample enough to keep a small child up for days on end, a Spotify account to keep me entertained through thousands of miles of featureless farmland, and the M2's 360 - hp turbocharged straight - six engine constantly willing to park my butt in a rural jail for flagrant disregard for speed limits.

What's particularly awesome about this specific redemption is that we paid 93,500 miles each for ~ 21 hours of «butt - in - seat» luxurious flying.

If it's your name on the plane ticket and your butt in the seat, those are your miles.

Because they don't have any transfer partners, the only way for you to earn enough miles to redeem for an award is to put your butt in a seat.

With my schedule being so busy recently, I haven't done much flying and I needed to get some butt - in - seat miles in if I wanted to make Star Alliance Gold for next year.

Maybe we should just use credit cards and not fly any more advantage member since year one with 10million miles — and not from credit cards — butt in a seat

BIS — Butt - in - seat miles.

First of all, 100,000 (butt in seat) miles are a ton, but I feel its worth it.

Until now, I've remained loyal to AAdvantage for similar reasons as you (easy elite status qualification with butt - in - seat miles, and higher chances to upgrade).

Earning miles in an airline program used to be about «butt in seat» miles — actually flying the airline to earn miles.

The 10k mile opportunity cost of not banking that to SPG is a fair point, but if I value that at roughly $ 200, then I'm «paying» $ 650 (annual fee, ignoring anything else it gets me, plus mileage opportunity cost) to avoid putting my butt in a seat for 10k miles.

You get 1 mile for every mile (what they call «butt - in - seat») that you fly.

The point that Dan is making is that Delta may be winning in the short run by jacking miles prices and acting with wholesale disregard with respect to its SkyMiles members, but in the long run, if Delta alienates both the people who actually put their butts in seats, and / or the people who spend on CCs, the effect on Delta's bottom line will more than outweigh the short term gain.

I bet 10 % of them are from sitting in a seat (or what we call «butt in seat — BIS — miles»).

Or you can earn them the old fashioned way which is actually flying on a paid ticket (also known as butt - in - seat miles)

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