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Is there a backdoor route for getting Medallion status?

Is there a backdoor route for getting Medallion status?

 
Old Oct 2, 12, 10:00 am
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
I was about to say that one could stay a hundred times and become FO, but there aren't one hundred two-night intervals in the promo period. Roughly 75 nights during the promo might give 35-40 stays, so at most slightly under 10,000 MQMs, let's say 9500 MQMs for 38 stays in 76 days, assuming that one started to do this yesterday and was actually able to successfully register for the promo before checkout time. The result is almost 40% of the way to FO.
add the right credit card and you can get 10 to 15k closer

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Old Oct 2, 12, 10:20 am
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Originally Posted by BobH
add the right credit card and you can get 10 to 15k closer

<lol>

Bob H
Even 30K closer, and you can have multiple right credit cards tied to your account.
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Old Oct 3, 12, 7:46 pm
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A couple years ago this was more rewarding, but it's been trimmed back in recent years.
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