Originally Posted by
puddinhead
I got this email - I have a trip booked at the end of the year in PE (AF) to Europe and BE (KLM) coming back. So I'll be over for the year in MQM's and I have enough MQD$. Ticket cost $3,100 ($2,400 MQD$). Doesn't look like a good offer...
Got that same e-mail, except mine was 7,500 MQM, 12 MQS and $1,195 MQD for $1,195. I'm way over on MQM as it is but I'll be short on MQD and don't care enough to pay the ~$800 or so that remains after my final couple flights for the year are flown. Even paying for an upgrade to F won't get me there. If I wasn't fully booked up I'd make a run on AF, KLM or VS or even one of the Asian partners to get the MQD via mileage percentage but I just don't have the time.
I'm always just barely reaching or falling short of MQD because I fly a ton of cheap $200 or so fares so I might plan an early PE run to JNB on VS next year to get a huge head start on MQD. That alone should get me about $6,000 MQD for $1,600. I'll have plenty of rollover MQM this year at least.