I’d given up on renewing my Frontier Airlines elite status for 2018 after a failed attempt at a mileage run.

Then Frontier sent me this email out of the blue:

I was 8k miles short of the 20k needed to renew my status, but they’re offering to give it to me for another year if I take just one flight, of any price or distance, before the end of the year.

BTW, how do you find out how many elite qualifying miles you’ve flown?

Frontier is a budget airline with a budget website (…it’s glitchy).

When I sign in to my account, my elite qualifying miles-flown number appears on my profile for about 2 seconds, then disappears.

You might not notice it if you aren’t looking for it, and it might not act like that in all web browsers, but it does that to me using the Chrome browser.

I grabbed a quick screenshot of my EQMs flown before it disappeared:

Edited to remove personal details.

I also noticed this cryptic activity on my account listed as the same day I received the email about taking a flight to renew my elite status:

It’s almost like someone manually went into my account to set it up for the single-flight-for-elite offer. Weird.

Anyhow, I won’t be taking Frontier up on the offer since I won’t have an opportunity to take a Frontier flight before the end of the year.

Portland has only one direct flight on Frontier — to Denver of course — so I wouldn’t be able to make much use of elite status in 2018 anyhow.

After 18 blissful months as a Frontier elite, the end is nigh.

Happy holidays!