Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if the gurus here could help me? I am trying to make my maiden mileage run combined with a vacation. I currently have no status but I do have about 10k miles in my Skymiles acct. as such I would like to stay with DL qualifying miles.

So intuitively I searched through the threads and I took some time and went through the links in the stickies and relevant topics and many were down, broken, or damaged. I then took the ones that worked and tried to work out a mileage run. I found that when I tried to do this on ITA, farefinder, etc... as well as the DL site I was either getting really screwy itineraries or ridiculous fares. Here's an idea of what I am trying to do. I will be traveling alot more in the new year (mostly intl, but some domestic)and so I wanted to try to attain status as quick as possible by actually flying.

I originally tried the following; my first trip is going to be 90 days with a departure of anytime mid-jan and return in APR or so. My first 3 trips are going to MOW (Moscow area) and then onto another RU city; from BOS.

As a rookie at this my first two trial routes ( of which I've had no success) of trying to book are these:

BOS-->SEA-->LAX-->ATL--->SVO/DME/VKE and repeat on the return. Done in about 24 hrs, and in the neighborhood of $2k or less), or BOS-->LAX-->ATL-->SVO/DME/VKE.

As far as returns and an estimate on MQM to $$ ratio the best I was doing was 12-16 cents/mile based ont he calculator I was using. I'm open to suggestions, etc... If anyone has any ideas, routes, hints, suggested itinerary, etc... I'd like to make the most of this trip since I'll be dong it about 6x. Please feel free to post them.

thanks,
BOS2SVO