Originally Posted by
mspfly
I am Silver now but will be travelling alot next year so would like to be able to get the Gold benefits for next year's travel. My issue is that because of my location, all my flights are low miles. I have 47 segments to get my to those 41,000 miles.
Here's the problem. You can do it domestically, but there's little availability to enable you to do it at a semi-decent price, so you're looking at $2k.
You can do it internationally for $340 for a RT to London (via DTW/AMS)... but there's $511 in taxes on top of the ticket price.
So you can waste a day for $851, or buy the miles for $895.
Or stay FO.