Questions About Mileage Tally?
#11
Posted 02 March 2004 - 09:57 PM
Take care and take trains!
#12
Posted 28 August 2004 - 09:55 AM
#13
Posted 28 August 2004 - 10:40 AM
Yes, we did keep a tally of Guest Rewards points for about a year or so. However we decided not to keep this going for a few reasons:
- Guest Rewards points are cumulative, meaning that each person's total is carried into the following year, unlike our mileage tally which was just for a particular calendar year.
- In addition, should somebody redeem some or all of their reward points, their total would go down, not up. That wasn't fair to them, since they had to have earned a lot of points in order to be able to redeem them for rewards.
- Finally, there were too many ways to earn points. Besides the purchase of Amtrak tickets, one could also earn GR points by having the Amtrak Guest Rewards Master Card, by staying in member hotels, or by transferring points from other programs such as airlines. In short, one could earn points by never setting foot on a train.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
#14
Posted 11 September 2005 - 04:40 PM
#15
Posted 01 November 2005 - 08:18 PM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
#16
Posted 29 March 2007 - 08:19 AM
#17
Posted 29 March 2007 - 09:29 AM
Benltrain,Since I am a new member, can I add miles from the past from the trips I have record of?
First of all welcome to OTOL! As a new member from the Philly area you're in good company around here.
We have held this mileage tally dating back probably to the mid-1990's, when our group was part of Prodigy. The tally has existed every year except for 2003, when we were in a state of transition as this board was founded in the middle of that year. We have had many "mileage keepers" take charge of the task, some of whom are still members (and administrators) and some who don't post regularly or at all anymore. The totals for our previous years have already been finalized and posted by the various people, so it would be difficult to go back and add to those totals.
Bill Magee is the current keeper of the Amtrak mileage. He has already posted results for 2006, his first year in doing the tally. I think with us already being 25% of the way through 2007, it's too late to add to 2006 or any previous years totals. I am sure Bill will concur with that. However, I believe that you should be able to post any mileage that you may have ridden from New Years Day 2007 to date.
Edited by KevinKorell, 29 March 2007 - 06:48 PM.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
#18
Posted 29 March 2007 - 06:47 PM
#19
Posted 01 August 2007 - 05:46 AM
#20
Posted 01 August 2007 - 08:07 AM
Hi Alan,
What is the mileage tally for Cleveland to Chicago?
Railette in training (obviously) LOL
Off the top of my head, I'm not sure either. But no worries, Bill can and will calculate the mileage for you when he updates the stats.
Take care and take trains!
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