Mileage Run Discussion - Need 15,764 EQM out of SFO on AA

Thanks to a huge upsurge in business travel, weddings (even my 70 year-old uncle got married this year) and AA's double elite qualifying mile promotion, I am currently scheduled to end this year with 109,236 EQM, so it seems worthwhile to earn the additional 15,764 EQMs in order to get the AA 125,000 EQM bounus prizes. With the double EQM promotion, this is only 7,882 BIS miles, but I'm at a but of a loss what the best MR run to do is. I don't really care where I go, but I would love to do it within 24 hours, avoid an overnight in a hotel and do it as economically as possible. Wise, experienced ones, wht would you do. I'm flying AA out of SFO. I already have travel booked Nov 12-15 and Nov 26 - Dec 2. Thank you.

you can pick up a quick 5100-5400 by doing SFO-JFK/BOS for around $230-240 (perhaps a bit more on weekends). the rest of it you could make up with a same-day run to DFW.

you could leave SFO just after midnight Sat Dec 5, connect at DFW, arriving BOS 11am with a good amount of time to catch a DFW bound flight and get back to SFO by 7:30pm for $250 a.i. This would get you 6052 miles before DBLEQ.

no hotel stay but you'd need to fit a night's sleep into SFO-DFW plus some catnaps on the other legs

HTH
benzguy80

EDIT: just noticed you want to do all this within 24 hours. Hmmm, more challenge.

I think knocking out 7882 mi in 24 hrs is going to be a stretch.

you could fit in SFO-DFW-MIA-SJU-MIA-SFO, leaving at 12:25am returning 10:25pm. I'm seeing this for $537 a.i. Dec 5, but it only (!) picks up 7260 mi.

SFO-MIA-YUL and vv hits the mark in terms of miles and timing but is costly (at least when I looked)

I'd opt for a cheap transcon (BOS or JFK) and then add in flights within the West to make the 7882

you could have some fun doing a quick MAD run via DFW for < $700 Dec 5/6

look at sfo-hnl-dfw-sfo....if that is short, add aus or other short hops...good luck...