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For each request, please include the following information:

Departure Airport:
Miles Needed:
Required or Budget:
Available Travel Dates:
Required Metal or Codeshares okay:

Qualification requirements

Three ways to qualify for each level: miles on Alaska only (includes Alaska flights operated by Horizon or Skywest), combination of miles on Alaska or partners (no minimum on Alaska, can be 100% partners), or combination of segments on Alaska or partners (no minimum on Alaska, can be 100% partners).

MVP: 20,000 miles on Alaska/25,000 miles on any combination of Alaska and partners/30 segments on any combination of Alaska and partners

MVP Gold: 40,000 miles on Alaska/50,000 miles on any combination of Alaska and partners/60 segments on any combination of Alaska and partners

75K: 75,000 miles on Alaska/90,000 miles on any combination of Alaska and partners/90 segments on any combination of Alaska and partners

AS: 2019 Consolidated Mileage/Status/Challenge Runs help needed

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Oct 26, 2019, 8:39 pm

#76

mediaspork

Join Date: Oct 2019

Location: Seattle, WA

Programs: DL Platinum, AS MVPG100K, Marriott Ambassador, UA Silver

Posts: 14

AussieInSeattle, thanks for the suggestion! I'm working on booking some variation of this now. Super helpful.

Oct 29, 2019, 1:26 pm

#77

Aquaman11

Join Date: Oct 2019

Posts: 3

help needed outta lax

Hi, Im looking to qualify mvp gold , with my upcoming QF trip its going to put me less than 17000 short of the partner requirement of 50,000 EQM, prefer a deal with CX but I am open to any ideas!

Departure Airport: Lax

Miles Needed: 16780 for Gold

Required or Budget: 800 USD or less

Available Travel Dates: Oct to Dec

Last edited by Aquaman11; Oct 29, 2019 at 1:44 pm

Oct 30, 2019, 2:53 pm

#78

barabuski

Join Date: Dec 2011

Posts: 178

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquaman11

Depends how much appetite you have for going back to Aust, but plenty of fares on QF from $750-900 out of LAX or SFO to SYD or MEL. LAX-SYD-LAX is about 15K miles, if you tag hops through SFO you're very very close to what you need. Availability over thanksgiving as well (ex. 11/26-12/3).

Oct 30, 2019, 6:05 pm

#79

Aquaman11

Join Date: Oct 2019

Posts: 3

possible New Zealand trip?

I’m looking at the lax-syd-lax route it’s around $1k early December also maybe Auckland. Maybe BA first to London or Hu biz to China around $1300?

Oct 30, 2019, 6:24 pm

#80

ezak

Join Date: Sep 2018

Posts: 561

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquaman11

I’m looking at the lax-syd-lax route it’s around $1k early December also maybe Auckland. Maybe BA first to London or Hu biz to China around $1300?

I'd suggest the HU biz to China option, as long as you have visa. It would give you about 17-18k EQM, depending on routing, and 45-50k RDM for MVPG, so overall the net cost might be less than an Australia run.

Oct 30, 2019, 10:55 pm

#81

morphogencc

Join Date: Sep 2016

Location: Las Vegas

Programs: American Airlines Plat Pro, Marriott Titanium, Hyatt Globalist

Posts: 207

I have about $650 leftover in my wallet right now that's going to expire by 12/16; I'm looking to use that for a mileage run.

Departure Airport: NYC, though can position to BOS very easily
Miles Needed: 13,000 to MVPG
Required or Budget: $650
Available Travel Dates: Anytime in December 2019
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: Needs to be bookable with wallet funds, so only flight operated by AS

I realize that I'll probably need a second mileage run to do this, though I'm curious how many miles I can get for this in one flight (I'd really like to not fly NYC < - > SFO 3x times)

Oct 30, 2019, 11:09 pm

#82

morphogencc

Join Date: Sep 2016

Location: Las Vegas

Programs: American Airlines Plat Pro, Marriott Titanium, Hyatt Globalist

Posts: 207

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimSF

Booked a turn around from SFO to DAL for 12/7 for $317 in first. Three hour layover. Looks like about 7,500 EQM.

How do you get 7,500 EQM? It's about 1,500 miles each way, 3,000 RT, with 1.75x it's still only around 5,000 EQM.

Oct 31, 2019, 9:07 pm

#83

just_jim

Join Date: Jul 2017

Posts: 79

Quote:

Originally Posted by morphogencc

You can get about 10k miles NYC to Hawaii (looks like Maui is cheaper) for less than $650.

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Oct 31, 2019, 10:39 pm

#84

usuario

Join Date: Jun 2012

Location: EWR

Programs: Alaska, Marriott

Posts: 161

Need 7152 partner/AS miles from a HKG/DAD - NYC one way

I'll be in Hong Kong and then Da Nang on Nov20 and need to make it back to NYC in 3 days.
From this one way trip I will need about 7k miles to reach MVP75K to avoid mileage running. Any ideas are appreciated!

Departure Airport: HKG/DAD, don't mind positioning / transfers / layovers

Miles Needed: 7152 (fine if slightly less)

Required or Budget: 800 USD, happy to pay more for PE/Biz if there are great deals

Available Travel Dates: Nov 20, 21 or 22

Last edited by usuario; Oct 31, 2019 at 10:55 pm

Nov 2, 2019, 7:00 am

#85

hellointer

Join Date: Jul 2015

Programs: marriott platinum, AS Gold

Posts: 105

BAD News!!!!!!!!!Qantas earn less to AS now.....

Nov 2, 2019, 7:01 am

#86

hellointer

Join Date: Jul 2015

Programs: marriott platinum, AS Gold

Posts: 105

Try to see if qantas OK for you...

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Nov 2, 2019, 11:35 am

#87

ezak

Join Date: Sep 2018

Posts: 561

Quote:

Originally Posted by hellointer

BAD News!!!!!!!!!Qantas earn less to AS now.....

Just saw the new earning chart yesterday. To be honest this's a pretty short notice, I imagine some folks who booked flights in 2020 would suffer a huge loss in miles.

You can book through AS and that would still earn 100% in Economy, but after a brief check looks like the prices are a little higher than booking through QF.

Nov 3, 2019, 12:45 pm

#88

eosh_pnw

Join Date: Nov 2019

Programs: Alaska Airlines

Posts: 1

Aiming for MVP Gold before 12/31

Any help, advice or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

I'm at 25,000 miles and need (want) 15,000 miles before 12/31 to achieve Alaska Airlines MVP Gold status.

Departure Airport: SEA
Miles Needed: 15,000 to MVPG
Required or Budget: Less than $1000
Available Travel Dates: Anytime between now 11/4 and 12/31
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: ANY - just needs to accrue Miles toward MVP Gold status

I'm committed to this, so am prepared to fly all segments in the shortest amount of time, anywhere in the world, to get this taken care of.

Thanks in advance,

Nov 3, 2019, 5:35 pm

#89

Daniel Sanchez

Join Date: Nov 2019

Programs: AADVANTAGE

Posts: 1

So close yet so far from EP in AA

Departure Airport:WAS, DCA preferes
Miles Needed:20,000
Required Spend or Budget:$1,400
Available Travel Dates:nov-dec 15
Required Metal or Codeshares okay:

Nov 5, 2019, 12:19 pm

#90

TJ7Flyer

Join Date: Dec 2018

Location: PDX

Programs: AS 75K, Marriotts Titanium, OWE, UA Silver

Posts: 42

I finished this mileage run and it worked out quite well. My wife and I collected the late baggage points in DEN from SEA, easy 5,000 extra points. Total RDM 48,226, Elite Miles 15,574 each.

Not showing in our itinerary was the JFK-LAX-PDX, I took a bump going back to PDX from LAX so added another $350 to my wallet and 5,000 RDM to the wife's account.

One more mileage run taking advantage of the Coast2Coast bonus will get us in striking range for 75K after a trip to Hawaii just before Christmas. The following is my next pure mileage run:

PDX-LAX-JFK-LAX-FLL-LAX-JFK-LAX-PDX

Anticipated mileage earnings:
16,214 Elite Miles
16,214 RDM Miles (regular)
16,214 Elite Bonus Miles (Gold MVP)
14,546 Coast2Coast Double Miles

46,974 Total RDM per person
$1,167.02 total cost for two tickets (companion fare)
$0.0124 cost per mile