[QUOTE]Originally posted by HouTxFF:
[B]I'm new here gang and need some help. Plat for 4 yrs on CO, then a work change has altered my flying pattern. I'm only at Silver now for '04 - need 19K more for Gold. Any ideas for MR's that could help me out??

I'm in the exact same boat you are. So a friend of mine (who is also about to be demoted) and I are doing an MR to Bangkok on NWA. Cheapest R/T we could find in December was $600, but we paid $900 and used 50K miles to upgrade R/T to WBC for the run. It's worth about 20,000 miles since we are going IAH-MSP-NRT-BKK and the reverse on the way home.

Whatever you decide, good luck!