What’s A Mileage Run & When Should You Do One?

Collecting points and miles is a major part of airline loyalty. Travelers will earn these based on flights taken, and increasingly these days from other sources such as credit card spending and retail. Taking this earning more extreme leads to the idea of a mileage run. This is where the main purpose of the flights becomes to earn points and miles, or for credit towards elite status. With changes to earning systems in recent years, mileage runs are less common, but there are still ways to make them work.