Originally Posted by
FlyingHighlander
Good points, thank you. I have no status right now but from this year on I will start regular business travel. Current projection for the year puts me around 85,000 PQM. I should hit PQD. Haven't determined whether I want to push for 1K status, but assuming I do, I'm trying now to understand whether it's better to proactively buy some PQM now at a sensible cost or take a chance, see where I am late-2019 and decide then.
if I had the PQD I would get the extra PQMs either through a mileage run or purchasing the miles. No brainer if only short 15k of PQMs for 1K status