Originally Posted by
SubPar
I have booked the remainder of my business travel for the year and will fall 373 miles short of Gold. I tried to tinker with my routing for the last trip to add a 500 mile minimum segment like DCA-PHL or SAN-LAX on my route (SAN-DCA) but couldn't get it done for the price my employer would be happy with. Before I go and do something dumb like buy a one-way SAN-LAX or something, anyone have any good ideas for how to earn this incredibly small number of miles?
Perhaps there will be opportunities to move up to better routes and you won't have to buy any additional tickets. Sounds like you may already have an idea what the appropriate flights are.