Originally Posted by Ocn Vw 1K
MilesPointsMiles: welcome to FT! You may want to check your strategy. (Apologize in advance for the TravelBuzz/MileageBuzz aspect here): You could, of course do relatively cheap flights PHX to SAN/LAX/TUS/LAS; but, both PHX and OMA are Southwest cities and have N/S service between them, so maybe a strategy would be to use those RTs to fuel more credits/miles for future tripa without the need to do MRs to fund relatively inexpensive trips between cities having the Southwest effect. Now if your girlfriend lived in HNL or LHR, that would be different.
Maybe I'm confused here but how would making multiple trips to those cities help me? A free flight on SW takes 16 segments which is 8 RTs. If I make eight RT flights at a Ding Price of $72 that would cost me $576 and give me a free flight to OMA. Flights from PHX to OMA average $350 or less, $218 if I book in advance and get lucky.
Am I missing something?