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I've been traveling from PHL to BOS on US air for the past 3 months. I have 17 segments but few miles on this short trip. Feel like I'll never get to silver.

Next project starts soon going from PHL to ATL. Should I stick with US air and just wait out to get silver or go to airtran where it seems like it is so much easier to get upgrades?

I have to use a corp card for flights and hotel so no option to earn extra miles with that.

Also staying at Marriott every week Sun-thurs. I have over 100K marriott miles. Should I just start putting my us air FF in for the marriott stays and try to jump up the miles that way?

thanks

Buy coins and never worry again when you hit 1 million.

Can you get away with creative routing? Instead of PHL to ATL, book PHL to CLT to ATL. It'll cost you a few hours (and the company a couple of extra bucks) but you come out of each trip with 4 segements instead of 2. If you get close to your target near the end of the year, consider an out of pocket segment run on a cheap flight(s).

If I understand correctly I have to hit the 30 segments by the end of the year? This will give me the silver status for all fo 2010?

Yes Scrappy, 2010 and also the begin of 2011-either at the end of January or February. I think US Airways also offering double segments promotion (or was is United), which mean from PHL-ATL you will get credited as 2 segments, instead of 1.

Now i'm confused on the segments. Is a round trip considered 1 segment?
If I get a connecting flight PHL-CLT-ATL is that still a segment. Can someone define a segment for me please.

To keep it simple:
PHL-CLT would be 1, CLT-ATL would be 2 so PHL-CLT-ATL = 2 segments

That's just one way.
Now let's say when you go back to PHL from ATL you get the same routing: ATL-CLT-PHL
So another 2 segments. So a roundtrip would be 4 segments total.

May I ask how many segments you have total in your US Airways account, cause you might get a higher status than you think due to the promotion http://www2.usairways.com/en-US/divi...c=dm_txt_00726

you can always by your way in with either miles or segments

http://www.usairways.com/awa/content...preferred.aspx

A segment is a flight with a unique flight number.

If you're flying PHL-CLT-ATL on with PHL-CLT on flight US123 and CLT-ATL on flight US456, then that is two segments. If both flights are under the same flight number (US123, PHL-CLT, continuing service to ATL also as US123) it counts as just one segment.

As a rule of thumb: one take-off + one landing = 1 segment. So PHL-ATL = 1 segment, PHL-CLT-ATL = 2 segments, LGA-PHL-CLT-ATL = 3 segments and so on, as long as each flight has a unique flight number.

A better rule of thumb is one boarding, one segment. That avoids counting two segments on a one stop flight to your destination. However, there are some cases on international itineraries where you change planes under the same flight number and probabaly only receive one segment credit.

I currently have 18 segments. I usually fly in on Sunday and leave on Thursday but I could stay until Friday if its an easier day to get the segments in. I have to book through a corp site and I've looked around and see some flightes where I can pick up a segment or two but some of these posts have talked about 4 or even 6 segments on a trip. Don't see how I could find that option.

May I ask how many segments you have total in your US Airways account, cause you might get a higher status than you think due to the promotion http://www2.usairways.com/en-US/divi...c=dm_txt_00726[/QUOTE]

I saw this promotion which is starting Oct 1. I'll be flying every week for the rest of the year. If I read this correctly.....you get the status once you hit 10 segments but it only lasts until February 2010?

Since this is also being discussed in the US Airways forum ( http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-ai...preferred.html ) I will close the thread here.

Regards,
Gary
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