Mileage Run for FTL Status?

Old Jul 2, 2003, 5:06 am
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Mileage Run for FTL Status?

Another question:
I have no status at M&M at the moment and would like to become FTL as soon as possible. I expect to have about 31.000 Status-Miles by mid-july. So about 20.000 Miles are missing for FTL! Are there any possibilities to get 20.000 Miles with some inner-european or cheap intercontinental trips this summer? I just read about US-based mileage runs so far ... and Im living in Austria!

Thanx for your suggestions
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Old Jul 2, 2003, 7:08 am
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The cheapest would probably the classic mileage run on the train between FRA and ZWS(Stuttgart Railway Station). You get 4000 status miles for every round trip in buusiness class, i.e. you would have to do 5 returns to reach the 20,000 miles you need. Same day returns (of which you could do a couple a day) are EUR106 each, weekend returns (with saturday night stay) are EUR66 each. So it would basically come down to EUR330-EUR530.

Of couse, if you could get hold of a non-European mailing address, you would only be 4000 miles short of FTL.

Has anybody out there any experience with nesting the cheap weekend fares between ZWS and FRA, e.g. two FRA-ZWS-FRA and one ZWS-FRA-ZWS, which would give 3 returns a weekend.
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Old Jul 2, 2003, 7:15 am
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I just completed two nested roundtrips (1 FRA-ZWS-FRA, 2 ZWS-FRA-ZWS, Sat/Sun). No problems, just a smile from the lady at ZWS checkin, saying that I must be on a milage run...
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Old Jul 2, 2003, 7:21 am
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Ill try the AIRTRAIN-thing I think! Sounds nice. Can I buy tickets via Internet?

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Old Jul 2, 2003, 8:18 am
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Do they also run train "Sat night deals" from MUC? I have an upcoming trip there, but not FRA and would love to do 2 nested runs to get miles and finally make SEN.
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Old Jul 2, 2003, 9:00 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MapleLeaf:
Do they also run train "Sat night deals" from MUC? I have an upcoming trip there, but not FRA and would love to do 2 nested runs to get miles and finally make SEN.</font>

There is no AIRail service ex MUC.
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Old Jul 2, 2003, 12:06 pm
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Tickets fpr the AirRail can be bought for example on www.start.de or www.opodo.de.

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