Originally Posted by
trm2
I never said it would be comfortable, just that you can get Silver very quickly for < $1200.
I did a 20k+ MR last year, only one upgrade (EWR - IAH) as a silver, in four days, this is only 3 days and about 6k more miles than that - not sure if I would do it either.
Or a BDL-EWR-SFO-IAH-EWR-DUB-IAH-SFO-EWR-BDL can run $641 ai & 18,565 EQMs (2 different tkts, BDL-SFO-BDL & SFO-DUB-SFO) then do a creative routing East Coast-West Coast and pick up the other 6500 and you can have Silver for less then $1000 It will require a night on the way out to DUB in SFO but a PL can get you a 2 1/2* for $54 ai (Staybridge Suites)
Heck if a person has the time (remember DUB requires either a Sat flight over there out of EWR or being there for a Sat) do this 3 times and for < $3000 you got Plat. DUB is good till the 2nd weekend in March then it goes way up