Will be Gold short!!
#1
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle area
Programs: Alaska Gold
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Will be Gold short!!
I calculated all my remaining trips for 2009 and I will be short 7k miles for Gold. What is the best way to find the cheapest $/mile for me to make mileage runs?
#3
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Wenatchee, WA
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I'd guess Seattle:
Location: Seattle area
Check web specials at http://www.alaskaair.com/as/alaska/W...bSpecials.aspx, you can usually find something out of Seattle. SEA-PDX, SEA-BOI, and SEA-GEG are often on sale, and you can easily do three round trips on a Saturday to rack up miles.
Location: Seattle area
Check web specials at http://www.alaskaair.com/as/alaska/W...bSpecials.aspx, you can usually find something out of Seattle. SEA-PDX, SEA-BOI, and SEA-GEG are often on sale, and you can easily do three round trips on a Saturday to rack up miles.
#4
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I'd guess Seattle:
Location: Seattle area
Check web specials at http://www.alaskaair.com/as/alaska/W...bSpecials.aspx, you can usually find something out of Seattle. SEA-PDX, SEA-BOI, and SEA-GEG are often on sale, and you can easily do three round trips on a Saturday to rack up miles.
Location: Seattle area
Check web specials at http://www.alaskaair.com/as/alaska/W...bSpecials.aspx, you can usually find something out of Seattle. SEA-PDX, SEA-BOI, and SEA-GEG are often on sale, and you can easily do three round trips on a Saturday to rack up miles.
#6
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Will you be short 7K AS miles or 7K AS+partner miles? There are some good deals on DL in Sep./Oct. but if you need 12K partner miles it might not be that economical and time consuming. DL also has "UP" fares that book into A and give you 150% EQM's on AS.
#7
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well Im somewhat in the same dilemna. Sure wish I was in the seattle area and it would be way less of a problem. My signature shows year to date miles as of 8-2-09 and Im around 8500 short with nothing else scheduled for the year. But to be that close and still have 5 months to get to gold I'll be danged if Im going to just blow it off
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Doing a RT via hawaii to SEA works
Doing that this month
Originally Posted by ANC
well Im somewhat in the same dilemna. Sure wish I was in the seattle area and it would be way less of a problem. My signature shows year to date miles as of 8-2-09 and Im around 8500 short with nothing else scheduled for the year. But to be that close and still have 5 months to get to gold I'll be danged if Im going to just blow it off
Doing that this month
#9
Join Date: Feb 2005
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I just made Gold for next year, but where I'll be likely short, for the first time in a few years, is the 75K mark to get the bonus. So I'll be on the lookout for some cheap runs from PDX to get EQMs. Last year I did PDX-HNL-KOA for a mini vacation / mileage run... NWA had some great deals to HNL... hopefully they'll put up a few of those and I can get a couple of those runs added to my tally for the year. If anyone else has ideas for PDX... I'd love to hear.
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You might check out the fall sales from Seattle that were just posted:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....389&highlight=
Tickets must be purchased by Aug. 14, 2009, for travel from Sept. 14 through Dec. 16, 2009. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and day-of-week travel restrictions apply, except to Mexico.
Sample one-way fares from Seattle:
$49 Oakland, Calif.
$99 Phoenix
$129 Atlanta (nonstop service begins Oct. 23, 2009)
$139 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$189 Kona, Hawai'i
AS also just announced sale fares to Houston starting at $109 each way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/pro...ter_Houston109
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....389&highlight=
Tickets must be purchased by Aug. 14, 2009, for travel from Sept. 14 through Dec. 16, 2009. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and day-of-week travel restrictions apply, except to Mexico.
Sample one-way fares from Seattle:
$49 Oakland, Calif.
$99 Phoenix
$129 Atlanta (nonstop service begins Oct. 23, 2009)
$139 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$189 Kona, Hawai'i
AS also just announced sale fares to Houston starting at $109 each way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/pro...ter_Houston109
Last edited by BLI-Flyer; Aug 4, 2009 at 12:28 pm Reason: Added info about Houston sale
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You might check out the fall sales from Seattle that were just posted:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....389&highlight=
Tickets must be purchased by Aug. 14, 2009, for travel from Sept. 14 through Dec. 16, 2009. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and day-of-week travel restrictions apply, except to Mexico.
Sample one-way fares from Seattle:
$49 Oakland, Calif.
$99 Phoenix
$129 Atlanta (nonstop service begins Oct. 23, 2009)
$139 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$189 Kona, Hawai'i
AS also just announced sale fares to Houston starting at $109 each way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/pro...ter_Houston109
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....389&highlight=
Tickets must be purchased by Aug. 14, 2009, for travel from Sept. 14 through Dec. 16, 2009. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and day-of-week travel restrictions apply, except to Mexico.
Sample one-way fares from Seattle:
$49 Oakland, Calif.
$99 Phoenix
$129 Atlanta (nonstop service begins Oct. 23, 2009)
$139 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$189 Kona, Hawai'i
AS also just announced sale fares to Houston starting at $109 each way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/pro...ter_Houston109
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...and, once again, a certain city is missing from that list...
Ahem...
For once its not..
How's 224ish OW++ ANC-DCA?
Originally Posted by jackal
You might check out the fall sales from Seattle that were just posted:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....389&highlight=
Tickets must be purchased by Aug. 14, 2009, for travel from Sept. 14 through Dec. 16, 2009. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and day-of-week travel restrictions apply, except to Mexico.
Sample one-way fares from Seattle:
$49 Oakland, Calif.
$99 Phoenix
$129 Atlanta (nonstop service begins Oct. 23, 2009)
$139 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$189 Kona, Hawai'i
AS also just announced sale fares to Houston starting at $109 each way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/pro...ter_Houston109
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....389&highlight=
Tickets must be purchased by Aug. 14, 2009, for travel from Sept. 14 through Dec. 16, 2009. Tickets require a 14-day advance purchase and day-of-week travel restrictions apply, except to Mexico.
Sample one-way fares from Seattle:
$49 Oakland, Calif.
$99 Phoenix
$129 Atlanta (nonstop service begins Oct. 23, 2009)
$139 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$189 Kona, Hawai'i
AS also just announced sale fares to Houston starting at $109 each way.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/pro...ter_Houston109
For once its not..
How's 224ish OW++ ANC-DCA?
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Dude
Not on AS @ that price you had...
And think of your routing options... up to 10K EQM's not bad...
Add on a discount code
Not on AS @ that price you had...
And think of your routing options... up to 10K EQM's not bad...
Add on a discount code