After downloading and running several pieces of anti-spyware software, I purchased last-minute tickets to Geneva at a public internet terminal at the Boston Public Library at Copley Place. I selected a deliberately circuitous route starting in Providence, Rhode Island, and passing through Detroit and Amsterdam.
The above quote, from
Sakura Blue, a thriller novel, might make the uninitiated reader believe that the hero was trying to avoid being trailed. FTers, however, know better. He was simply trying to get as many SkyMiles as possible out of his Providence-Geneva itinerary.
The way I see it, he took Delta metal PVD-DTW-AMS and then got on a KLM flight to GVA. The book mentions that he flew in Biz Class, giving him 8022 MQMs in each direction. Two such trips in one year would give him Delta Silver Medallion and enough rollover MQMs (7088) to get him a good head start on qualifying the following year.
Of course, I might be wrong. It may develop later in the book that he did not fly back the same way. He may have flown even a longer route, shooting for Gold Medallion.
If you want to know, you can either read the book yourself,
Sakura Blue, available on your Kindle for only $4.99, or else ask the author -- none other than our very own
hoyateach.