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Rappaport will fly from New York to Dallas, Dallas to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to Maui. There, he has a 90-minute layover — not long enough to leave security, never mind enjoy any part of the lush island — and then heads right back to New York on the same plane with a stop in St. Louis.
Carriers award status based on the number of miles flown during a calendar year, so November and December are crucial months for travelers who are trying to reach their elite-qualifying points goals. They look for cheap fares with long routes to put as many miles into their accounts as possible. The strategy is so common that Flyertalk.com has a whole forum devoted to mileage runs and the future freebies country inns by carlson they can ensure.
Rappaport, 33, takes two or three such trips a year to maintain his Diamond Medallion country inns by carlson status on Delta Airlines and Executive Platinum status on American Airlines. He doesn’t care about the destination, just how many miles he will get for the cost and how long the journey will take.
“My wife has no problem calling me crazy. My mother shakes her head, my brother calls me crazy, most of my friends call me crazy, but they are intrigued by it because they know me and they know that I tend to take things to the extreme.”
The Maui trip will re-qualify him for the top-tier status at American. country inns by carlson To do the same thing on Delta, Rappaport recently put together another exhausting itinerary. He flew from Washington to Atlanta, then to New York, then to Istanbul, Turkey, where he spent the night and walked country inns by carlson around the city for a few hours. He then hopped on a plane to Paris, then to Salt Lake City, then to Baltimore.
Rappaport’s coach ticket was upgraded on the flights heading to Istanbul, but it was back to economy class on the way home. The trip required 27 hours in the air and left him sleep deprived and exhausted.
The airfare cost $665 and the Istanbul hotel set him back about $85, Rappaport said. He earned about 14,000 miles towards his status with Delta and about 35,000 frequent flier miles total when bonuses and promotions were taken into account — enough for a coach ticket from the U.S. to the Caribbean.
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“(Also) I have more miles that I can then use to take my wife somewhere ... we really appreciate travel, we both want to see the world and I really don’t want to fly to the other side of the world in coach.”
Meanwhile, he’s getting ready for what most people would consider the least romantic trip to Hawaii ever. It won’t be so bad, Rappaport said, as all of his upgrades have cleared so he’ll be flying country inns by carlson first class the entire way.