Originally Posted by jimrpa

So, I just found out that, for the remainder of the year, I'm going to be commuting weekly PHL-BOS. Sadly, there's no practical way to do so on DL that I've found. Even if I were willing to do something silly like connect through JFK or DTW, the tickets price out at more than twice the cost of US. That would definitely catch the (unwanted) attention of my employer. But, if I were to try to status match over to US or AA (I believe their programs are still different), assuming they work the way Delta does and give a minimum of 500 status qualifying miles per flight, I could, at best, earn about 30K of their status miles, or just barely Silver AND drop all the way down to Silver (the level below General Member) in SkyMiles since I won't have earned anything this year. Any thoughts? Oh, one final thing - I'm only about 400K from 2MM with DL, and I'd like to hit that so that I can secure lifetime Gold and be rid of the Delta SkyMiles game.