Originally Posted by
dsolomon
I've been Exec Plat the last 3 years (PLT before that for about 5 or 6 years). I qualified Exec Plat on points, not miles - I buy first/business most of the time. I had written off making Exec Plat this year as my travel has reduced, but just analyzed my activity - I'm short 38294 points, or 25529.3 miles (at 1.5 points per mile).
I haven't checked the math on your routing (I agree with the post that said the MR Forum is the best place to get advice for that) but I do recommend that first you recheck your miles and points totals.
1) If you fly mostly first/business, then you should be closer to requalifying with points than miles, yet your post says you have 12,764.7 fewer points.
2) And I don't know where you got the number 25,529.3, but AA doesn't use decimals in calculations (miles and points are rounded up).
If it were me, I'd got to aa.com to double-check the actual EQM and EQP before I altered my flight plans radically.