Qualifying for MVPG
 

Based on the flights I'm taking through the end of the year, I'll be 217 miles short of qualifying for MVPG. Think Alaska will go ahead and give me MVPG status or should I plan on doing a MR? If it helps, I'm MVPG this year.

Nope.

Add a stop in PDX or booking another flight is the only way to guarantee MVPG. Also, it's only June. Little early to start the speculation that you're not going to fly 1 more flight...

40k AS-metal miles for MVPG is a generous enough threshold without comping people who fall short.

AS did last year but no guarantee it will happen again. Its really early in the year, just fly an extra segment and get the 500 minimum and you are golden.

I was about 250 miles short in 2011 for 2012 and they comped me to MVPG. Should be noted I was MVPG the 2 previous years.

There is zero comping to 75K.

Better to be safe than sorry and add in a trip or a segment though. Agree on your last sentence as well.

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If you're 217 miles short, your trip planning philosophy is backwards...for example, I want to qualify for MVPG this year and I know that it takes 40K so as I plan my trips for 2014, I put together a combination of flights that will get me 40K. By trip planning, I mean that my FAT-PDX trip I took last month was booked as FAT-SAN-SEA-PDX instead of FAT-PDX non-stop (for about the same price I might add). The elite level I'm trying to qualify for determines the flights I take in 2014, not the other way around so I will never end up short on miles.

A huge portion of my flights this year have been with my husband who hates flying and will usually only travel if we can get a non-stop.

I'll plan on booking an extra flight sometime before EOY to make sure I qualify.

Hates flying?!!? Chooses a non-stop over a connection?! That's FT blasphemy :) I now have a greater appreciation for my mileage running wife who is willing to go to DTW and back with me in one day for DEQMs :)

Mine's doing it twice! :D

We were going to try and do that but I decided to use a companion ticket for that trip and I so there is no way to include DTW again so we will need to pick another city....but it will still be a double mileage run weekend for us :)

Nice! Getting him on a plane is a huge accomplishment to begin with. I told him about MRs and Flyertalk and he thinks you guys are crazy. He certainly seems to appreciate the amount of flying I do when it's time to book an international ticket in F or J though ;)

Well ... we are crazy. I don't think you'll get an argument there! :p

Let me share some of the craziness with you (and by extension, your husband).

This past weekend I sallied forth to SLC to accrue some SEA-SLC-SEA DEQM's. All was well until the return on Sunday, when the plane that was supposed to have conveyed me back to SEA, that originated in SAN, never left SAN due to a mechanical. Rather than canceling the SLC-SEA segment, SkyWest dispatched a replacement aircraft to SLC to take us to SEA. That plane was DOA upon arrival at SLC due to electrical problems, which took four hours to fix. I missed my connecting flight (with its accompanying upgrade) back to JNU and requested to be put on 79 (last flight of the day back home) in case the repairs at SLC drug on. But they didn't and I got to SEA about three hours before 79 was to depart.

But alas, 79 fell victim to a mechanical of its very own, and we were an hour and a half late getting out of SEA. All told it resulted in a 9-hour delay in getting back home. Being solstice weekend, a new meaning was fittingly bestowed upon the phrase, "longest day of the year".

Such is the plight of the crazy FT'er. I'm sure many others can (and will) regale you with similar experiences!

Oh the muggles. Not on AS, but my father didn't understand the whole MR thing either. Until I convinced him to go on a segment/points run to complete an AA PLT challenge.

He commented that the SNA-SJC-(lunch with friends)-LAX-SFO-SNA run we did wasn't half bad.

Then we all upgraded to C LAX-NRT.

Then we got op-upped to F NRT-LAX because we were a family of elites (mom was GLD at the time).

Now he didn't even question it when I say I'm flying SEA-LAX by way of ANC-PDX-SEA :D