Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
Your post is rather unclear about a some things. First you say you DON'T want to get status on UA, but then talk about doing a MR on them.
Personally, I don't like pure MR's. I like to see new places and relax a bit. I'll try to work a weekend trip somewhere and have some fun while I'm there.
Remember to keep your costs down, and that you generally need 25k in a calendar year to get to the first elite level. An inexpensive trip to Singapore would get you 18 or 20k of miles in one trip, but Singapore is fairly expensive these days, if you going to have to stay for 3 or 4 days.
I am not interested in getting any particular status on United. I just find it very interesting to see how people come up with obscure routing to maximize the number of miles traveled. It's not so much of getting a certain status, nice side-effect, but more of, can I figure out how to fly in and out of ORD without spending the night in a hotel, on a reasonable fare.