Originally Posted by
marchelli
If one were to do this for the first time, how much time and money would one have to commit to be competitive? I get decent stretches of days off, which leads me to think I could do this over a few of those periods.
I did EYW once and got 50th place.
From YVR, one return in J to the Caribbean, one return J to the Maritimes, one Comfort fare to the Maritimes, and one in internal Maritimes Comfort fare.
The routings were optimized to maximize badges. ie: no straight lines!
As for money, I was mileage running to SE anyways. I used discount codes for all fares.
The pile of eupgrades I earned all went to waste.