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 Runs
Category Archives for Mileage Runs.
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…
Oversold airline flight? Show up early to volunteer your seat and fly for free
Last month I flew a roundtrip same day mileage run on United Airlines from Los Angeles to St. Louis connecting through San Francisco. It was just an “okay” run since it didn’t net a huge amount of elite qualifying miles. The fare was $160.80 and I received 4,470 EQMs, which comes in at 3.60 cents-per-mile.…
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…
The evolution of elite level qualification in airline frequent flyer programs
Qualifying for elite status with an airline requires meeting a certain threshold the carrier has published, whether it be point, mile or segment based. Those thresholds have been periodically raised, lowered and adjusted even to the point of birthing new tiers. Delta’s fairly recent addition of the Diamond level at 125,000 Medallion Qualifying Miles is…
Trip report: American Airlines LAX-DFW-LAX in first class and economy x2
The weekend before last I completed two mileage runs in my quest for Platinum status on American Airlines. It was a bit like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day in that I flew Los Angeles-Dallas-Los Angeles on consecutive days making it feel like deja vu, although they weren’t the exact same flights each day. Two…
Frequently Flying is now on BoardingArea… hello & welcome!
Today, I am very honored to become part of the BoardingArea family of bloggers and look forward to writing airline, hotel & travel industry news, reviews & opinions for my regular & new readers. For those of you meeting me here for the first time, a proper introduction is in order. My name is Darren…
Trip report: My first American Airlines flights since 1998
After a 13-year hiatus from flying American Airlines, and in part to achieve Platinum status through February 2012 via a challenge, I flew AA this past Saturday from Los Angeles to Chicago to Los Angeles. I was excited to compare my experience as a top-tier elite with United Airlines to that of being a non-elite…
Going for the American Airlines AAdvantage Platinum elite challenge
Last week I mentioned I was going for Gold status with American Airlines in their AAdvantage frequent flyer program. Having basically locked-in renewing my 1K status with United Airlines, my addictive behavior for flying even more is getting the better of me and I’m starting this week to fly American for the first time since…
My United Airlines mileage tracking spreadsheet
A couple of months ago I noticed the spreadsheet I maintain that tracks my United Airlines mileage didn’t add up to what was showing online. I was able to quickly compare each segment’s mileage and discovered Continental Airlines and United use different mileage amounts for flights out of Denver. As far as I know that…