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We’re hearing from a bunch of people who are taking (or need to book) year-end Delta Air Lines Medallion Qualification Mile (MQM) runs. Why? They either need to secure a certain tier of status or bank a bunch of rollover MQM so they can extend their 2024 status into additional years.
We found this Los Angeles (LAX) to London Heathrow (LHR) MQM mileage run-status run-mini vacation departing this Friday and getting back to LAX on Sunday evening.
Something particularly attractive: it doesn’t leave LAX until 11:15 AM. This gives travelers from other cities decent-ish time to position to Southern California. Similarly, you arrive back at LAX at 6:30 PM on Sunday. That gives you time to catch a red-eye home (or if you live here in L.A., time to make a cameo appearance at a Christmas Eve dinner or other gathering. No need to thank me if this is your excuse to get out of going to something. 🙂 ). Keep in mind you’ll have to clear customs and immigration at LAX, so tack on some time for that.
Now, this is sort of a desperation run. I say that because it’s all in Main Cabin (coach) and the 11,627 MQM are earned at a rate of about 9.6 cents per MQM.
But we’re in the holiday season when flights are fairly expensive — we can’t get too picky.
Hotel-wise: I’ve stayed at the Holiday Inn Express at Heathrow a couple of times. It’s a good hotel and usually very affordable on points. You can ride the Paddington Line to and from the city. Plus, the hotel is located outside Terminal 4 — which is where you’ll depart on Sunday morning.
“Can you help me find something else?!”
There is an entire team of people who can create a mileage run tailored to you: the point.me Mileage Run Department. They are professional mileage run finders and bookers. They will work with you to create a mileage run based on your preferences, schedule, needs, preferred airports, airline alliances, etc.
They can also help book hotels and arrange some other trip details for you.
But if you need MQM, contact point.me right now.
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