GoUHCoogs: Welcome to FlyerTalk!!

I second Paulo: you have to board a plane to earn status miles.

From Houston, remember the "Hobby hop": add HOU-IAH (or EFD-IAH) segments onto any IAH CO flight for free.

It looks like you can fly to San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, or Harlingen for $92RT with 7 days AP and 1 night stay, or $132 RT with 14 days advance and no min. stay. Dallas is $106 with an overnight, and $128 without. New Orleans is a few bucks more.

I suppose if you _really_ couldn't leave town, you could buy a one way Hobby-IAH-AUS/DFW/SAT $66 one way with 14 days notice, fly HOU-IAH, then give your IAH-AUS/DFW/SAT boarding pass to someone. That would put you 100 miles away, and you'd never leave town, really.

Good luck!

[This message has been edited by Viajero Joven (edited 11-29-2000).]