Let the Mileage Run Games Begin! (2023)
Jan 21, 2023, 9:31 am
#46
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: SFO
Programs: AS 75k, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 544
H ... a... l ... p .... I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣 it's only the 20th and I'm looking at the never ending list of trips ... 20, 21, break, 23, 24, 25, break .... 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1 .... a six day sleeping-in-the-airport marathon
I think once Jan 31 hits, I will look virtually indistinguishable from the homeless people who sleep at SFO
I think once Jan 31 hits, I will look virtually indistinguishable from the homeless people who sleep at SFO
Jan 21, 2023, 1:41 pm
#47
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H ... a... l ... p .... I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣 it's only the 20th and I'm looking at the never ending list of trips ... 20, 21, break, 23, 24, 25, break .... 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1 .... a six day sleeping-in-the-airport marathon
I think once Jan 31 hits, I will look virtually indistinguishable from the homeless people who sleep at SFO
I think once Jan 31 hits, I will look virtually indistinguishable from the homeless people who sleep at SFO
Jan 22, 2023, 1:38 pm
#48
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: MRY/SFO/SJC
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Posts: 7,784
I just did two SFO BOS runs.
Jan 18 SFO BOS
Jan 18 BOS SFO
Jan 19 SFO BOS
Jan 20 BOS SFO
I slept at the Crowne Plaza SFO Jan 17 and Jan 18, but airport camped on Jan 20 before heading home yesterday on Caltrain and Amtrak. The same man was across the aisle from me Jan 18 SFO BOS and Jan 20 BOS SFO, but I didn't have the guts to ask if he was mileage running. Anyone want to 'fess up?
I "camped" at D12 Friday night.
Jan 18 SFO BOS
Jan 18 BOS SFO
Jan 19 SFO BOS
Jan 20 BOS SFO
I slept at the Crowne Plaza SFO Jan 17 and Jan 18, but airport camped on Jan 20 before heading home yesterday on Caltrain and Amtrak. The same man was across the aisle from me Jan 18 SFO BOS and Jan 20 BOS SFO, but I didn't have the guts to ask if he was mileage running. Anyone want to 'fess up?
I "camped" at D12 Friday night.
Jan 22, 2023, 6:53 pm
#49
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I just did two SFO BOS runs.
Jan 18 SFO BOS
Jan 18 BOS SFO
Jan 19 SFO BOS
Jan 20 BOS SFO
I slept at the Crowne Plaza SFO Jan 17 and Jan 18, but airport camped on Jan 20 before heading home yesterday on Caltrain and Amtrak. The same man was across the aisle from me Jan 18 SFO BOS and Jan 20 BOS SFO, but I didn't have the guts to ask if he was mileage running. Anyone want to 'fess up?
...
I "camped" at D12 Friday night.
Jan 18 SFO BOS
Jan 18 BOS SFO
Jan 19 SFO BOS
Jan 20 BOS SFO
I slept at the Crowne Plaza SFO Jan 17 and Jan 18, but airport camped on Jan 20 before heading home yesterday on Caltrain and Amtrak. The same man was across the aisle from me Jan 18 SFO BOS and Jan 20 BOS SFO, but I didn't have the guts to ask if he was mileage running. Anyone want to 'fess up?
...
I "camped" at D12 Friday night.
I did "camp" at SFO once, back in 1989, on a multi-week backpacking trip through the western US. Still have nightmares of the cleaning staff vaccuming next to me and the automated overhead announcements of some sort every ten minutes or so.
Jan 23, 2023, 6:46 am
#50
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First MR of the year is done. 2/2 on upgrades, so I can only hope I can keep those numbers up.
Time for work
-J.
Time for work
-J.
Jan 23, 2023, 6:07 pm
#51
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Sacramento CA area
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, AS MVP Gold 100K, Hilton Diamond(Amex), Marriott Platinum
Posts: 207
Arghhh... I am too old for this stuff
I did "camp" at SFO once, back in 1989, on a multi-week backpacking trip through the western US. Still have nightmares of the cleaning staff vaccuming next to me and the automated overhead announcements of some sort every ten minutes or so.
I did "camp" at SFO once, back in 1989, on a multi-week backpacking trip through the western US. Still have nightmares of the cleaning staff vaccuming next to me and the automated overhead announcements of some sort every ten minutes or so.
Last edited by macmedic; Jan 23, 2023 at 6:13 pm Reason: Wrong reply.
Jan 23, 2023, 6:10 pm
#52
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Jan 23, 2023, 6:11 pm
#53
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Sacramento CA area
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I just did two SFO BOS runs.
Jan 18 SFO BOS
Jan 18 BOS SFO
Jan 19 SFO BOS
Jan 20 BOS SFO
I slept at the Crowne Plaza SFO Jan 17 and Jan 18, but airport camped on Jan 20 before heading home yesterday on Caltrain and Amtrak. The same man was across the aisle from me Jan 18 SFO BOS and Jan 20 BOS SFO, but I didn't have the guts to ask if he was mileage running. Anyone want to 'fess up?
I "camped" at D12 Friday night.
Jan 18 SFO BOS
Jan 18 BOS SFO
Jan 19 SFO BOS
Jan 20 BOS SFO
I slept at the Crowne Plaza SFO Jan 17 and Jan 18, but airport camped on Jan 20 before heading home yesterday on Caltrain and Amtrak. The same man was across the aisle from me Jan 18 SFO BOS and Jan 20 BOS SFO, but I didn't have the guts to ask if he was mileage running. Anyone want to 'fess up?
I "camped" at D12 Friday night.
Jan 23, 2023, 9:30 pm
#54
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: sometimes, strangely, I find myself at home
Programs: I need to do better in managing my affiliations. Oops, I overshot the runway for status next year.
Posts: 651
In all my years, ONE TIME, I got stranded in an airport terminal. That was totally involuntary (a celebrity was partially to blame); staying overnight was not for miles!
Any of you FS's (Frequent Seatwarmers) planning to be on the BOS-SFO on the29th?
Any of you FS's (Frequent Seatwarmers) planning to be on the BOS-SFO on the29th?
Jan 23, 2023, 10:39 pm
#55
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: YYZ, SFO
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I don't think I can do it my butt hurts so much already LOL I'm definitely going to cancel a few of these x__x this was way too ambitious. I think I might cancel Wednesday for example - I think two days in a row is the max I can tolerate x_x
These transcons are absolute killer x_x It's actually more comfortable sleeping on the floor of SFO than to sit in First Class
edit: next year, if I'm putting myself through this gauntlet again, I'm going to look carefully at the booking screen. How in the heck did I not see the redeye?
For my bumbum's sake, I think I need to find a new MR strategy that doesn't involve sitting for 6 hours. I swear in a past life (or maybe last year), I used to find decent cpm flying to Alaska like SFO-PDX-SEA-ANC-FAI and back - or something like that. If anyone can share tips/advice/life experience/strategy/pointers publicly or privately how to do multi-segment SFO-Alaska that can consistently get good cpm, I'd be in your debt
my butt hurts so much already LOL I'm definitely going to cancel a few of these x__x this was way too ambitious. I think I might cancel Wednesday for example - I think two days in a row is the max I can tolerate x_xThese transcons are absolute killer x_x It's actually more comfortable sleeping on the floor of SFO than to sit in First Class
edit: next year, if I'm putting myself through this gauntlet again, I'm going to look carefully at the booking screen. How in the heck did I not see the redeye?
For my bumbum's sake, I think I need to find a new MR strategy that doesn't involve sitting for 6 hours. I swear in a past life (or maybe last year
), I used to find decent cpm flying to Alaska like SFO-PDX-SEA-ANC-FAI and back - or something like that. If anyone can share tips/advice/life experience/strategy/pointers publicly or privately how to do multi-segment SFO-Alaska that can consistently get good cpm, I'd be in your debt
Last edited by maradori; Jan 23, 2023 at 10:52 pm
Jan 24, 2023, 12:17 am
#56
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: LKE/BFI/SEA
Posts: 200
Jan 24, 2023, 12:59 am
#57
Join Date: May 2020
Programs: Tribe 54 Sweat Lodge 12
Posts: 111
Just in case someone missed it, there's a premium fare thread for F on BA: BA First Class / YVR-JNB $4,610 USD for ez "run" (and vacation, if you so choose).
Book it thru BA code for that sweet sweet J / A class with 250% EQM & 350-450% RDM for YYC-JNB.
It's not the best ratio you'll find (I've done ~20 EQM/$ RT to ANC, MC fare cuz idfw BE) at ~12 EQM/$ but it is international F and better than the PE or BC ratio for that route. (The other "round the world" thread on AA/QF/JL can net you ~14.5 eqm/$ in BC I think.) Ample availability, and you can net near 60k eqm (plus 104k-140k rdm) in one trip.
I took one weekend red-eye overnight ANC run in those domestic "first class" and I'm fkn exhausted already lmao--def worth just staying nt in a hotel--so if you're like me, here's an easier way to make 100K this year. (Plus the a-la-carte experience//flex of int'l F & concorde room @ LHR
...)
On a side note: AS purging covid status is a +++ lmao, whew. 3/4 U the 1st run, and 5/5 the 2nd.
Book it thru BA code for that sweet sweet J / A class with 250% EQM & 350-450% RDM for YYC-JNB.
It's not the best ratio you'll find (I've done ~20 EQM/$ RT to ANC, MC fare cuz idfw BE) at ~12 EQM/$ but it is international F and better than the PE or BC ratio for that route. (The other "round the world" thread on AA/QF/JL can net you ~14.5 eqm/$ in BC I think.) Ample availability, and you can net near 60k eqm (plus 104k-140k rdm) in one trip.
I took one weekend red-eye overnight ANC run in those domestic "first class" and I'm fkn exhausted already lmao--def worth just staying nt in a hotel--so if you're like me, here's an easier way to make 100K this year. (Plus the a-la-carte experience//flex of int'l F & concorde room @ LHR
...)On a side note: AS purging covid status is a +++ lmao, whew. 3/4 U the 1st run, and 5/5 the 2nd.
Last edited by beamerbenzbentli; Jan 24, 2023 at 1:22 am
Jan 24, 2023, 2:59 am
#58
Join Date: Dec 2021
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Posts: 27
Jan 24, 2023, 7:35 am
#59
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: LAX
Programs: MVP100K, A-list, Marriott/IHG Plat, CHP525 Ticket Plat, CHP Solo Carpool 100K, Costco EXP, Tinder 1K
Posts: 820
That's my calendar for Jan/Feb.. M/W/F essential trips. Tu/Th/Sat MR. Sunday entire day at home (finally). I don't know how many MR I can do this year, but I will try to keep at least 75k..
Last edited by 985X; Jan 24, 2023 at 2:35 pm
Jan 24, 2023, 9:01 am
#60
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: CMH, West Coast
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, oneworld emerald
Posts: 2,741
Good Lord, I thought I flew a lot. I have 6 segments worth of mini-mileage runs to get Gold status back, but this pales in comparision to everyone else here. At least I'm sleeping in Seattle hotels every night and not on airport floors. 
Staying a the Even in SLU for 4x IHG points as well for a bonus.
1/13/23 - CMH-SEA, miles, upgraded to F
1/15/23 - SEA-CMH, revenue, GGUed already
1/27/23 - CMH-SEA, revenue, GGUed already
1/29/23 - SEA-CMH, revenue, GGUed already
2/10/23 - CMH-SEA, revenue, GGUed already
2/12/23 - SEA-CMH, revenue, GGUed already
So that will only get me to 10k AS miles and Gold, but 4 GGUs are worth it as I am a bit bored until 3/1/23 when AA status re-ups.
Staying a the Even in SLU for 4x IHG points as well for a bonus.1/13/23 - CMH-SEA, miles, upgraded to F
1/15/23 - SEA-CMH, revenue, GGUed already
1/27/23 - CMH-SEA, revenue, GGUed already
1/29/23 - SEA-CMH, revenue, GGUed already
2/10/23 - CMH-SEA, revenue, GGUed already
2/12/23 - SEA-CMH, revenue, GGUed already
So that will only get me to 10k AS miles and Gold, but 4 GGUs are worth it as I am a bit bored until 3/1/23 when AA status re-ups.