Frugal Travelers Turn to Business Class Fares to Earn Elite Status
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Business class fares are becoming so reasonable that it often makes sense to book the tickets for the mileage bonuses. In many cases, elite status can be earned with one single flight.
It used to be that earning elite status on a legacy air carrier meant flying a requisite number of miles each year and earning tiered benefits along the way.
The advent of qualifying dollars over the last few years however, which require passengers to fly the miles and spend a certain degree of cash, changed that calculus, pushing many budget travelers out of the elite status ranks. Recently though, a new technique has emerged to help those budget trav
