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Old Sep 26, 2023 | 10:27 am
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Dr Jabadski
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Originally Posted by kdinino
… don't even look at the Mileage Run forum anymore as it's quickly become obsolete. ...
Agreed. Was at one time among my favorite forums.

Originally Posted by Dr Jabadski
… (In 2003) When I finished all my legitimate travel for the year in early December I had ~46,800 miles, saw that 25K status received 25% earned mileage bonus and 50K status received 100% bonus and decided to fly to FLL via ORD for lunch in the terminal before getting back on the same plane to fly to ORD and LGA to earn 3800 miles and Premier Executive (50K) status for the next 14 months. (I was so smug at the time and thought I was so smart, didn’t realize until finding FT 6-8 years later that what I had done, and did occasionally over the years, was a well-known and well-discussed procedure known as Mileage Run.)…
I should have added that during my first few years here, I often thought “geez, I thought I was the only person weird enough to do this but these folks (FTers) have perfected it.”
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