120 miles short
Every year since 2000 I have been an MVP on Alaska Airlines. This year was looking like I would finally not make it. I didn’t go to the National Parks and Recreation conference. I didn’t go to Anchorage for the fall meeting.
It looks like the folks that want to film the cart bike can shoot it in San Francisco or Los Angeles. As much as I’d like to see a new city I’d also like the chance to see Kevin. Especially if someone else is paying for it. San Francisco is also the home of Instructables – and thanks to that site I put the project together and it got the visibility that landed it in magazines, newspapers, and hopefully television. But going to San Fran would require hotel stays which would push the cost up and probably discourage them paying for my way down. So I’m aiming for LA now.
If they fly me down and I do the Petersburg-Juneau-Seattle-Los Angeles route both ways I’ll be 120 miles short of MVP. A one way flight to Juneau is 123 miles.
Why would I consider flying to Juneau just for the miles? As MVP they give you 50% more miles than those actually flown. So a 1000 mile flight gets me 1500 miles. (MVP Gold gets double but I’ll never fly that much.) Also MVP get to upgrade to first class if it isn’t full in the 2 days prior to the flight. Hmmm.
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I remember some surprising articles about the lengths people go to keep this status with airlines each year, including flying to Paris just long enough to sleep overnight and return. So Juneau seems reasonable. : )