5901 Miles till Platinum, is it worth it?
 

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I am done with my business travel for the year.
I am Gold and have 5901 miles till Plat.
I have the Delta Amex Buis Reserve and hit the $30K bonus but wont hit the 60K mark this year.
I fly about 18 trips a year out of DTW mostly all domestic.
Is it worth a mileage run?
If so anyone have any suggestions?
If I do it and its domestic I will buy business, intl I think that will get too expensive.

Id love to hear some ideas and thoughts.

Thank you!

Youll get the most 'change' in perks from moving up to PM. Access to C+ at booking (space available etc etc....stupid new change), waived fees on award ticket redeposits.

Agreed, although that's a serious Mileage Run.

The OP has to calculate if the potential benefits (constantly being watered down) are worth such a long (and likely fairly costly) MR...

if OP is willing to drive from Detroit to Flint, there is a 24-hr turn departing Tues 8 Dec for $435, netting ~6200 miles enough time for a shower at the LAX SkyClub, and there are even some decent C+ seats available on 1354 (and only two of the 36 flat-bed J seats are showing occupied ...)

Only OP can judge tradeoffs, but with choice benefits and other perks, I'd do the mileage run.

*cough* Im doing a 25,000 run next week

Only an idiot would do that. Oh, wait. :o

To each his/her own, but I can't see what "benefits" would warrant spending all that money.

Also, and I'm sure many of you will think of this as blue-state silliness, but I'm concerned about how environmentally damaging airplane travel is and I would never fly 25,000 miles (the circumference of the earth) without needing to actually get somewhere.

Not sure what i said to warrant being insulted.....

Really cheap run. Huge rollover for next year. No real work trips predicted for next year so just gonna be riding status from rollover and a few personal trips.

It was a joke, since I'm starting the same run tomorrow night :)

haha redacted :) my GUCs havent cleared on the outbound yet *ugh* 20+ hours in coach i AM an idiot

That's impressive. Is there some easy way to figure these trips out? I can't imagine sitting at DL.com and trying every possible combination of trips to get 6200 miles for $435.

multi leg search google.com/flights

Well, you look at your status w/o the MR and with the MR and decide whether the difference in tiers is worth the $$ and time to you. I can pretty much work from wherever I have an Internet connection so that helps.

I am mostly a blue-state liberal too, so there may be a twinge of guilt, but it seems to me that MRs are mostly done on cheap fares == excess capacity on flights the airlines would be making anyway. But if you want to call that a self-serving rationalization I certainly understand!

A simplistic way involves using Google flights and leaving the destination open, you can see what fares are available for particular dates to arbitrary locations on the map.

Hanging out on the MR forum helps. Even if the posted deals are short-lived, sometimes they come back, or similar things can be found if you check periodically, so it's a good starting point for ideas.

No way to have results sort destinations by price/distance? Seems tedious to look at random destinations.