Originally Posted by
iron_mike
i'm sitting at about 19000 for the year, and based in ZRH. i was going to be taking a trip down to JNB and on through southern africa on an airpass this week, but that's been cancelled. i've decided i'm not going to do a 16000-mile MR to get elite.
however, i'll carry elite until feb 2011, right? so, i'm seeing some good fares ZRH-GRU in jan-feb. think i'll do that trip while i've still got status (to get the bonus), and then i've got one or two more flights for april and a ZRH-YYZ for summer. i'll be without status for a few months, but really only miss one or two lounges and then hopefully get early recognition and be back on board by, say, august.
thoughts?
-mike
Sounds like a reasonable idea.
Living without status for 2-3 flights most likely won´t kill you, and it´s a better idea to move the investment to next year, as you´d have to requalifiy anyways.
In fact, some people use this strategy on a regular basis, i.e. doing 35k miles at the beginning of every second year (thereby qualifying early and having status for nearly two years), the same strategy is used by some SENs who do a RTW at the beginning of every third year.