Check out this interview with Jason Reitman, director of ”Up in the Air.” It’s very interesting to hear his perspective on things, and especially how we “chase” material things that ultimately don’t matter. To a certain extent he’s right and I won’t even try to defend myself. That being said, he seems to be a mileage runner, even if he doesn’t realize it. At 5:20 he talks about his end of the year mileage run to maintain airline status. So apparently he can sort of kind of relate to us. Now someone needs to tell him that some of us do this year round. 
(Tip of the hat to Eric)
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Joe J. said,
Apparently he was on UA Turkey 1 from IAD to LAX today and got bumped back to coach. (http://twitter.com/JasonReitman)
November 26th, 2009 at 12:12 am
sam said,
That’s awesome, I wish he had gotten United to be the primary airline of Ryan instead, it looks like he’s a united flyer, wonder if he’s on flyertalk?
November 26th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Josh said,
Randy Peterson had spoken with him about the MR before (and tweeted about the MR to Chicago); If I recall correctly, he said he’s not on FT.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Elizabeth said,
Terry Gross of the NPR show “Fresh Air” did an interview with Jason today. Among other things, he talks about American’s involvement with the movie and his love of frequent flyer miles. The interview is posted here at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120993990. (It’s about 30 minutes long).
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Kevin said,
This NY times article also hints at Reitman being a mileage runner
“Except when it comes to airline travel. He once flew from Los Angeles to Chicago to pick up a pizza and, not so coincidently, to maintain his status on United Airlines. ”
and his elite status is:
“I’m at a level on United that is invite-only. It’s called Global Services”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/movies/29reitman.html?pagewanted=1
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