2018 MVP/MVPG/MVPG 75K Qualification Roll Call ...
Aug 27, 2017, 12:17 pm
#91
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Programs: Airline Free Agent, Bonvoy Platinum, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 3,811
I decided to not go after MVPG or 75K status. Might be moving to an area that isn't a hub airport for any airline. It's 2 hrs away from an AA hub airport but with the loss of benefits on AA in 2018, there's no reason to chase this status. Instead, I'm jumping over to DL as they have several n/s flights to their focus cities and offer a good in-flight experience.
Aug 27, 2017, 12:45 pm
#93
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: SEA
Programs: AS MVPG
Posts: 153
crossed the MVP threshold this past week. ~16k on AS, ~25k on partners. planned travel the rest of the year has me getting close to 40k on AS for MVPG. might have to throw in a BOS-SEA run (or a longer BOS-SEA-ANC run if something changes).
Aug 31, 2017, 9:14 pm
#94
Moderator Hilton Honors, Travel News, West, The Suggestion Box, Smoking Lounge & DiningBuzz
Join Date: Jun 2000
Programs: Honors Diamond, Hertz Presidents Circle, National Exec Elite
Posts: 36,027
SO grateful for the AS Status Calculator!!
Thought I was going to be pretty close for MVPG, but it's sure not easy to use AS' website to track and project EQMs.
Looks like mid-November's flight will put me 59 miles over 50K.
Thought I was going to be pretty close for MVPG, but it's sure not easy to use AS' website to track and project EQMs.
Looks like mid-November's flight will put me 59 miles over 50K.
Sep 1, 2017, 1:21 am
#96
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend, Moderator, Information Desk, Ambassador, Alaska Airlines
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: FAI
Programs: AS MVP Gold100K, AS 1MM, Maika`i Card, AGR, HH Gold, Hertz PC, Marriott Titanium LTG, CO, 7H, BA, 8E
Posts: 42,953
Sep 1, 2017, 9:40 am
#97
Join Date: May 2017
Location: SEA
Posts: 355
MVP -> Gold is absolutely worth a mileage run. I save about $750 a year in waived change fees, and the increased priority for upgrades (and companion upgrades) is also really nice.
Sep 9, 2017, 12:18 am
#98
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
Programs: DL PM 1.57MM; AS MVPG 100K
Posts: 21,371
just crossed the MVP threshold last night; I've already booked three TCONs and three SEA<-->LAX trips, so will have Gold before Thanksgiving
Sep 9, 2017, 12:03 pm
#99
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Saipan, MP
Programs: Marriott Ambassador, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, Alaska 75K, United Platinum
Posts: 203
Add a 3rd to that.......just finished my first run of the year from LAX:LIM:BOG:LET:BOG:LIM:LAX to get to Gold.
My run in November on Hainan will get me to MVP.
LAX:CSX:PEK:SZX:AKL:SZX:PEK:CSX:LAX
Oct 11, 2017, 3:33 pm
#100
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Pacific Wonderland
Programs: ʙᴏɴᴠo̱ʏ Au, IHG Au, HH Dia, Nexus, Pilot FlyingJ Preferred
Posts: 5,336
Requal'd for MVPG this morning on VX IAD-SFO just before the beverage cart finally made it's appearance. Glad to have it done for this year.
Oct 13, 2017, 10:57 am
#101
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: San Diego, Ca
Programs: AA 2MM LT PLT; AS MVP Gold75k; HHonors Diamond; IHG PLT
Posts: 3,502
MVPG as of last Thursday. Leisure trip to MCO for a bicycle festival in nearby Mt. Dora, local baggage handler unloaded my wife's bicycle, but mine mysteriously disappeared. Frantic search for the better part of an hour - was never scanned in SAN - it was eventually found on an MCO baggage cart, never unloaded on the belt (!?!).
Not the kind of reception I was expecting...
Not the kind of reception I was expecting...
Oct 13, 2017, 2:11 pm
#103
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,391
2018 qualifying MVP flight posted today (an earlier VX flight is still out there). Shutting down all planned AS travel for 2017 because even if I add all the projected travel left for the year in, it won't even be CLOSE to renewing MVPG for 2017 (that's just how the ball bounces if I don't do a transcon or four, or burn miles); going to use some existing funds/points I had in WN for some SEA-LAS travel in December instead.
I've already taped out about 8k EQM in AS travel for 2018 by early March, with more to follow, so MVP for 2019 will be pretty easy to hit, MVPG is ???? (my natural travel is somewhere between 20k and 45k in a year). If by some chance I end up with the Gold challenge in early 2018 that will also be easy to hit.
I've already taped out about 8k EQM in AS travel for 2018 by early March, with more to follow, so MVP for 2019 will be pretty easy to hit, MVPG is ???? (my natural travel is somewhere between 20k and 45k in a year). If by some chance I end up with the Gold challenge in early 2018 that will also be easy to hit.
Oct 13, 2017, 9:56 pm
#104
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 9
Requalified for MVP back in June, now counting the rest of already booked flights for trips I've planned I'll be short of MVPG by 12,000 miles. Debating whether or not to MR for it, there's a $900 AA flight to PTY in I/D class for thanksgiving.
I'm also will be qualifying for BAEC Silver by end of year, anyone has ever matched from BAEC/OW Sapphire to MVPG? If that works, I might spend thanksgiving skiing instead of flying, otherwise, since I've never been to Panama, I might just do the trip to check it out and get to gold. Is that crazy, or is MVPG worth the push? I'm a PDX-based flyer and mainly fly AS to connect to west coast hubs for long haul int'l flights with occasional domestic transcons.
I'm also will be qualifying for BAEC Silver by end of year, anyone has ever matched from BAEC/OW Sapphire to MVPG? If that works, I might spend thanksgiving skiing instead of flying, otherwise, since I've never been to Panama, I might just do the trip to check it out and get to gold. Is that crazy, or is MVPG worth the push? I'm a PDX-based flyer and mainly fly AS to connect to west coast hubs for long haul int'l flights with occasional domestic transcons.
Oct 15, 2017, 10:55 am
#105
Join Date: Nov 2010
Programs: AS MVPG, HH Diamond
Posts: 232
Requalified for MVPG last night on the way from ORD to SEA. Flight was delayed 2+ hours due to thunderstorms rolling through Chicago, but I was happy to get out of there without a longer delay given what the forecast looked like.