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Old Jun 22, 2014 | 9:07 pm
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Originally Posted by rlynnep
Based on the flights I'm taking through the end of the year, I'll be 217 miles short of qualifying for MVPG. Think Alaska will go ahead and give me MVPG status or should I plan on doing a MR? If it helps, I'm MVPG this year.
If you're 217 miles short, your trip planning philosophy is backwards...for example, I want to qualify for MVPG this year and I know that it takes 40K so as I plan my trips for 2014, I put together a combination of flights that will get me 40K. By trip planning, I mean that my FAT-PDX trip I took last month was booked as FAT-SAN-SEA-PDX instead of FAT-PDX non-stop (for about the same price I might add). The elite level I'm trying to qualify for determines the flights I take in 2014, not the other way around so I will never end up short on miles.
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