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Old Dec 6, 2006 | 3:05 pm
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Originally Posted by asimu pawa
Unlikely. SFO-DEN-ORD-IAD is only 26 miles longer than SFO-IAD. Unless you have good reason to believe one of those flights is bump worthy (*maybe* prime time monday morning) this seems like a bad idea to me. Now flying OAK-LAX-SFO-IAD-XXX for example could add more. Of course, if all you needed was the SFO-IAD-SFO many miles, the only reason to do any more than that is you really like rdm.
Maybe I'm missing something...

OAK-LAX would certainly get the 500 mile minimum, right? Plus a status bonus if applicable? Plus the additional segments (which is the only way I ever get status).
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