Hi All. First post here
I've always had the travel bug but recently been infected by the frequent flyer virus. Trying to get my head around a lot of things through multiple resources and have been trawling through this forum the last few days, picking up lots of things.
I apologise for such a noob question but there's just some things I can't seem to understand at the moment. I understand the concept of status credit runs - getting from A to B by going through X Y Z first in order to traverse sectors and accumulate those all-important status credits to move up tiers. And obviously when they flights are purchased in J or F you get significantly more credits.
However surely such convoluted routes add SIGNIFICANT costs to your flights. Im soon to plan a trip to the US and may for once have the time to do such a convoluted route but when I do multi-trips into kayak things get crazy expensive (for me), and I am talking about buying economy fares here. Am I missing something here? or are people willing to pay 3 or 4+ times the cost in order to build up crazy amounts of status credits (and i'm sure there are people in this category who can and will)?
once again, apologies, as I'm this is such a basic things to most of you guys out here... please go easy on me haha!:shock:
I've always had the travel bug but recently been infected by the frequent flyer virus. Trying to get my head around a lot of things through multiple resources and have been trawling through this forum the last few days, picking up lots of things.
I apologise for such a noob question but there's just some things I can't seem to understand at the moment. I understand the concept of status credit runs - getting from A to B by going through X Y Z first in order to traverse sectors and accumulate those all-important status credits to move up tiers. And obviously when they flights are purchased in J or F you get significantly more credits.
However surely such convoluted routes add SIGNIFICANT costs to your flights. Im soon to plan a trip to the US and may for once have the time to do such a convoluted route but when I do multi-trips into kayak things get crazy expensive (for me), and I am talking about buying economy fares here. Am I missing something here? or are people willing to pay 3 or 4+ times the cost in order to build up crazy amounts of status credits (and i'm sure there are people in this category who can and will)?
once again, apologies, as I'm this is such a basic things to most of you guys out here... please go easy on me haha!:shock: