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Any suggestions for a MR booked with Destina for double miles. I need 20K for SE this year.

A Trans Atlantic run to Canada and a domestic mileage run to get to the 15 flights for the fall promo should do it.

Where are you starting from and how much are you willing to spend?

Btw, it's 13 segments for the fall promo to earn 8K Q miles, not 15.

Ah, then I'll make it this week with my flts to Timmins, presuming all my missing flts show up.
Take that in the thong---Tango boy http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Ha....it will take you to the end of the year to book a run on Destina.!!.

Save yourself the heartache....book direct with AC.

PLus the extra points Destina offer are not status.

There's really nothing wrong with Destina. I priced out a multi-segment last night several times without any errors but I had to book with AC because I need to apply a MCO to it.

Thanks for the suggestions. I am starting in Europe, normally DUS. I will spend what it takes, but obviously the least possible.

Empress, really.....

Destina has to be the worst of all the booking sites, I am not goinmg to get into why because it has been discussed here many times...

Its just so un friendly to use.....

But to remind you....

Back button
fare rules
multi seg date change
stupid error messages
making changes
calling them
slow
etc
etc.

Yes, Destina has its problems. But I am booking 4 transatlantic flights today and will earn 40K bonus miles. Makes me live with the problems....

Are you sure about this? It's currently 2 points for every $3. So if you're going to earn 40K points, that means spending $60K. $60K for 4 tickets = $15000 each.

You sure?

Reminder that the double miles does not mean double flight miles. It only means instead of 1 point per $3 spent, it's 2 points per $3 spent until Sept 30.

Oh ****, you are right Empress. It becomes less interesting for the ~5K miles.

DutchSE.

I am trying to understand what you want to achieve, I guess you want 20k status miles to get to SE.

Many ways you can do it, Not sure what your timetable is like and weather you can take time of to fly but here are some suggestion.

On UA
LHR-LAX via a few places like IAD/ORD.

Leave LHR on a Friday, arrive LAX on a Fri night, SAT am take a AC Flight, LAX-LHR via YVR.

So to put simple.

UNITED.

LHR-IAD-LAX Nov 7th

LAX-IAD-LHR Nov 16th.

Cost approx 500euro

Air Canada.

LAX-YVR-LHR Nov 8th

LHR-YVR-LAX Nov 15th.

Great L fare for 600 cdn or 250 euro

Total miles will be about 21k

And you are only away weekends, it called nesting but with two different airlines I don't think it matters.

so for about 750 euro and a couple of night hotels your done, if you have to go from Holland then take a cheap BMI flight and have more Q miles and do the UA direct to LAX.

Have fun and welcome to this addictive world.

I'll chip in with my favourite suggested destination: Hawaii. There's some decent flights from Europe to Hawaii that give 16K miles on the most direct routing - around $1,400-$1,500 Cdn from LHR on UA or AC and they only require a Saturday stay. You might be able to do something with that. Watch the 50% q-miles within Canada on AC though.

I'm not sure what the upgradeable fare on AC is, but that would make it a little more comfortable.

Just found a good deal. 13,000 Q miles with

Nov 1 AMS - FRA - NRT
Nov 2 NRT - MUC - AMS

On Lufthansa for 700Euro taxes in.

Just a weekend