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Whew! I’m in San Francisco and on my back to Toronto. In the last two months, I’ve would have run myself through 35,319 miles in pursuit of Star Alliance Gold Status. I’ve done about more than that in miles for the year, but the rest count as American Airlines / OneWorld miles. Flight Distances   Flight Time   Flights In …

Mileage running is really not a sport for your average traveler. Doing a mileage run without “status” is an even more arduous task, since you have to put up with a host of crappy things in chasing your miles, that your “status” would help you to avoid: Terrible seats or no prior seat selection : Using a site like SeatGuru …

So it’s about 6.41am EST and I just finished the third leg of this week’s second mileage run. The fun started in Atlanta and the itinerary went something like this Atlanta > Charlotte > Denver > Charlotte > Philadelphia > Toronto So 5 segment and I dont know how many miles, I think the base mileage for this week is …

There are many ways to get from point A to point B. Tonight’s trip is not about the shortest duration. The decision to fly from Chicago to Denver, then to Los Angeles, then back to Chicago and finally to Atlanta, in one night was made when I realized that flying without “elite” status was just too much to bear. So …