Originally Posted by
thebakaronis
3. Flying multiple stops or short hop flights to increase your PQFs and thus reduce the PQPs needed to achieve a particular status. This is hard for me because most of my travel is long-haul international. But I'm considering taking unneeded mileage-run type same-day cheap flights (e.g., SFO-LAX) to bloat my PQFs.
Why not just string a series of connections instead of flying non-stop on international travel. Instead of flying SFO-LHR, just fly SFO-IAD-FRA-LHR, you get 3 PQF instead of 1. Of course there will be a chance of delays and IRROPS.
But per above, not really clear on what the maximizing goal is.