Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I'm not sure Aruba is far enough to give you enough miles. You should carefully calculate your MQM balance from all booked and anticipated business trips and then compare the needed miles to distances from BNA to possible foreign destinations using the routing and connections you would use.
Aruba flight would be BNA-ATL-AUA-ATL-BNA which is 4400 MQMs according to the calculator, but 25,000 MQM bonus is really all I need anyway to get to Gold. If the new goal would be Platinum, then I need 53k miles - 25k bonus = 28k miles / 2 = 14k miles - projected 7k miles planned = 7k miles needed base. However, the jump from Platinum to Gold isn't as important to me though.
That is, if Aruba counts?
EDIT: I now see that the bonus miles are actually bonus miles and not MQMs. Is that accurate?