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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 2:29 pm
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ilisira
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Originally Posted by KingofVegas
For those of you new to this Medallion stuff I would recomend that you look into segments.

I was surpised to read post from so called experts saying this "I need 15 domestic flight to reach silver Medallion".

Unless you live in ATL - DTW - MSP it's more likely that you will need a connection flight. This makes it a 4 segment trip....

Even if you do live in a Hub I'm sure you can find a flight with a stop. If you reallyyyyyy want status like some people on the board want then sacrifice a bit.

I only travel about once a month for 8 months then bottom part of the tear it turns into constant road warrior travel.

But if you travel every week or even 2-3 times a week you can make Silver in 3 months tops for the next two years.

My question is why don't segments get more post when it's allot eassier and faster to attain status in this form.

I would never pay for status or go on runs. At one point I did think about it but it's pretty silly. I will take what I earned on my companies coin and be happy for getting it for free.

For those of you running or making it your mission it's allot eassier than you think.

Your honor, thanks for sharing your thoughts, but not everyone flies 500 miles segments. If you are flying international, or transcon, it is much easier to earn any status in three months (let's calculate, each week is 5K miles, or 4 segments, and it takes 8 weeks to earn gold with segments, but only 5 weeks with miles, and you can rollover the miles, but not segments)..
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