For anyone based near Chicago, Los Angeles or San Francisco who flies either American Airlines or United Airlines, there are some amazing elite qualifying mile runs available to top off your accounts this year. Note first, however, that your address on your FF account must be in California or Illinois to qualify. The fare I’m…
Mileage Run Opportunities
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Segment Run Opportunity: $237.20 nets six United EQSs LAX-SFO-PDX-SEA r/t
United Airlines has a fare out there tonight in the Los Angeles to Seattle market that nets six elite qualifying segments for $237.20 all-in, or $39.53 per segment. I’m surprised at how many of you qualify for elite status via segments and have no idea what your threshold is for “good†or “bad†cost-per-segment. If…
Chicago Frequent Flyer Seminars: Day two summary – Saturday 10/29/2011
If there’s only one day you can attend a future Frequent Flyer Seminar series, it’s definitely the Saturday session. Yesterday was packed at the 2011 Chicago Seminars and featured an incredible amount of concurrent discussions on all things airlines, credit cards, hotels, miles and points. When booking your ticket for the event you select your…
The 2011 Chicago Frequent Flyer Seminars have arrived!
It’s officially here! Tonight begins the 2011 Chicago Frequent Flyer Seminars and I’ll be in attendance for the entire weekend. The event has sold-out and it promises to bring an uncompromised amount of education to all areas we mile and point fanatics care about. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone and am certain I’ll pick…
Mileage Run Opportunity: $85.10 nets 3,024 United EQMs SEA-SFO-ORD-DSM
United Airlines has a fare out there this afternoon in the Seattle to Des Moines market that nets 3,024 elite qualifying miles. I could not immediately find a zero-night trip or even a one-night stay, so this one is one-way. I found this at 4:00pm PDT, so as always… ACT FAST! Here are the details:…
Mileage Run Opportunity: $200.80 nets 5,768 Delta MQMs SFO-ATL-EWR-ATL-SFO
Delta Air Lines has a fare out there this morning in the San Francisco to Newark market that nets 5,768 Medallion qualifying miles. Here are the details. Act quick… these shots at another carrier’s market generally don’t last the day. [Edited at 2:04pm PDT: As expected… this fare has been pulled. Hope you got in…
Mileage Run Opportunity: $206.20 nets 6,164 American EQMs SFO-LAX-ORD-MSY
American Airlines has a fare out there today in the San Francisco to New Orleans market that nets 6,164 elite qualifying miles. Here are the details: [Edited 12:18pm PDT 10/14/11: This fare has been removed] Routing: San Francisco to New Orleans via Los Angeles and Chicago Travel period: Through end-of-schedule Fare basis: QA07ERP1 (7-day advance…
Mileage Run Opportunity: $190.80 nets 5,374 Delta MQMs SFO-CLE via ATL
[As of my check at 6:20pm PDT today October 11th, this fare is no longer available. Pretty typical with uber cheap ones often designed to be a temporary retaliatory response to another carrier’s similar deal somewhere.] Delta Air Lines has a fare out there today offering a “decent” cents-per-mile mileage run opportunity. Here are the…
Mileage Run Opportunity: $208.20 nets 6,712 United Airlines elite miles LAX-MCI
From time to time when I find a great airfare I’ll immediately tweet some of the basic information – airline, fare, routing, mileage total and “cents per mile†calculation – and just now thought it might make for a good recurring category to feature here on my blog. For a detailed description of my process…