Originally Posted by
vrbaba
Depending on how much international travel you do, seems like either segments or miles are the easiest. Does taking a roundtrip flight from say LAX to ORD, you go through SFO, does that count as 4 segments?
I wouldn't say segments are easy. Yes, LAX-SFO-ORD-SFO-LAX is 4 segments. But it is also > 1000 earned miles per segment. So the only people that make it on segments are those who only fly short hops. That's the toughest in my opinion, especially because the equipment is usually no fun.