 All right, thanks. So I'm a pretty unconventional frequent flier and to get here over the past two days I flew from New Orleans to Houston to Boston to Washington DC to Las Vegas to Houston to Boston to Chicago to New Orleans to Philadelphia to Rochester over 10,000 miles in two days. What I did was a mileage run. This is a flight taken with the sole purpose of her any frequent flier miles usually with no real destination coming back returning the same day. Any regard to dates either. And the whole idea of this is that airlines give benefits in the form of least as a frequent flier miles not based in any part of the fare you buy but instead in the distance. So this is all about exploiting the non-correlation between those two things. So the idea is that you want to minimize cost or fare finding really low fares in the internet and maximize miles by routing yourself out of the way deliberately. So asymmetrical CPM or cost per mile is just fare divided by number of miles flown. Anything below four cents per mile considered kind of mileage run territory. One benefit you get by flying someone just elite status or different thresholds. Lots of benefits here priority you know assistance and first class upgrades all that kind of stuff which is one it's kind of the primary people people mileage run for. But more importantly to me are redeemable miles. These are miles you earn to using free flights and these are worth more than most people think if you know how to use the rules to your advantage stretching into multiple destinations and different partners on partner lines and so on. Tying stew together is a mileage multiplier that comes with elite status at the top elite status level you get a 2x multiplier on all future redeemable miles earns. You fly 5,000 you really earn 10,000. This really leverages the whole concept of mileage running to earn lots of redeemable miles. Most people just do this they didn't at them the year to get over a hump just to get the next level. I actively mileage run throughout the year on really low fare is just kind of buying redeemable miles for cheap in the process and you can find these fares on kind of two main sites the Flyer Talk mileage runs form as a main one also the flight do.com you're gonna see a lot of really low fares on there to kind of some random airports but the fare alone isn't enough once you have the fare you need to find a way to book it and so for that you can use ITA matrix which will give you a full fare calendar so you can find which dates to work for that fare and then once you drill down you can even sort the routings by CPM to minimize CPM and get the most miles possible. Here's some examples of mileage run fares I've flown on recently as you can see San Diego to Philadelphia round trip for 140 is really low it's a good mileage run fare. Just yesterday I flew from Boston to Las Vegas for $117 round trip that's a 2.0 CPM. This is an example of a routing I'm doing in December I'm flying to Shanghai for dinner going routing through Chicago in Miami so going really far out of the way it's gonna earn me about 20,000 mere qualifying miles of 3.7 CPM. So this is very subjective people value their miles a lot differently depending on the airline or skill and using these these complex rules to your advantage. These are my personal evaluations but it's gonna differ from person to person. One way to look at mileage runs is on a net cost basis so take your valuation of the miles multiply out the number of miles you're gonna earn and subtract that from the fare. The idea with mileage running is that it should be negative very negative ideally so in this example I've been basically making $160 in value on net. Now most people getting their demo miles want to use them on international business and first class redemptions these are flights that cost obscene amounts of money on cash but my miles are relatively a good deal and so that's what I'm mainly in it for next week and I'm leaving on this itinerary going from here to Sydney through Seoul then going to Bangkok and Bangkok to Tokyo to Chicago to Washington DC. This whole thing's international first class a couple private suites would cost $29,000 of paying cash but on miles I paid 140,000 US Airways miles that I earned by miles running 70,000 miles in US Airways with my 2x Elite Multiplier at about three cents for miles 2100 dollars that's kind of what you'd expect to pay an economy definitely my international first class. Certainly you're gonna be spending a lot of time in planes if you do this you have to be able to either work well in planes or feel like they're not wasting time. There's hassle involved until you get things like TC pre-check discomfort until you start getting a lease status and are sitting in the first class most of the time so it really isn't for everybody you have to love airports love airlines like I do it is kind of a big investment if you want to get that 2x Multiplier you have to invest a lot in these miles and you know it is a fun hobby though if you learn how to maximize the value of those redeemable miles so hope you've learned a little bit more about this maybe think we're less insane than you did before and I know that for us it really is about the journey not the destination thank you.