Originally Posted by
humanoid94
Woah that is really expensive. Here is what I would do. Go down to EWR and pick up a EWR-DTW-MSP-HNL on NW roundtrip for 450 all. Then immediately nest that with a HNL-MSP-DTW-FRA roundtrip at 750. That will give you about 30,000 EQM for 1100 or so. The fares in question will pop right up if you set the search paramters at farecompare as EWR-HNL and HNL-FRA. Credit the miles to DL.
^Good advice, IMO, for getting to silver quickly. Follow that up with your 3-month trip to Russia, BOS-JFK-ATL-SVO on DL for <$1100. If you are taking 3 trips to Russia, you'll be GM (or very nearly) by the end of the second trip.
Not sure about the mileage calculation in your itin. I suspect the 25,669 miles are really MQMs (that is, after the 50% bonus for the M fare). Actual flight miles should be in the neighborhood of 17k for that trip. There is also the question of how you are going to upgrade to first (or BE, for that matter) for 50k skymiles when you only have 10k in your account.
