Originally Posted by bisonrav

I'm quite time poor and have had to put a lot of planning into working around weekends, Inevitably you have to take some time off, but to get from silver to gold probably not all that much. You might want to look at the August bank holiday weekend and join the PHX do, which I think you can do Friday to Monday and in business (the F fares have gone).

For the trips out east, one good one is Munich to Peking on Sri Lankan (first flight is Qatar). It gets 3 LH segments per direction and you can return essentially the next day (just after midnight so it looks like two nights on the itinerary, but it's really just one). As I recall it looks theoretically as if it would work B2B but I wouldn't risk that. If you don't have a China visa I think there are options for Hong Kong or Jakarta.

Then again you could view it as holiday and take some holiday. I have a couple of those booked - it was my wife's idea, so however bizarre it seems to sit and relax for a few days not on a flight I'm going along with it.