Originally Posted by
Flying for Fun
Certainly! Fly the longest routes you can with special fares on Partners in PE. AA y-up fares to PE & J are excellent as well. Upfares, often small, can make a poor earning itinerary decent but that is adding to the revenue. It just won't be in discounted Y not on AS flights. I have never qualified for 75K flying just AS. It has always been 90K with Partners as the first threshold to cross. I earned 388K EQM total for the years 2018, 2019 & 2020 and have added 88,311 more EQM since January 1st for over 475K in 39 months.
A good portion of early 2020 (which requalified me for 75K for 2022 on the carry-over) was on CX in PE when E class earned a 10% COS. E class no longer earns a COS bonus. The loss of 10% on that itinerary now requires flying/earning an additional 3085 miles elsewhere.
Flying is the easy part, minimizing the spend is becoming more challenging. I flew 15,637 BIS miles SCL-MAD-DXB-ICN-HKG-NRT and earned 17,884 EQM in 44 hours. That was after the LA earnings chart was devalued on July 1st, 2018 and the 25% COS on discount J tickets disappeared even though I had purchased the tickets prior to the announcement.
James
Great info as always James, thanks. My dilemma is courtesy of 10k carryover and flying several Paid F flights with the 2.63% bonus (now 2.25 through June) as well as an FLL turn and upcoming EWR turn in paid F, along with my “regular” travel I expect to be at about 90k all on AS metal in 2021. I’ll do what I need to do to ensure that’s over 100k if they count 21’s miles towards MVPG100 in 2022. I guess we will know sometime this summer. But going forward in 2022 I’m going to need to learn from more savvy folks like you on how to use OW discounted yet “EQM friendly” promo flights to build it up in 2022. We should have a one world mileage run sticky thread on this forum.