Originally Posted by GUWonder

If you are going to drop out of Plat 14 months from now, just make sure to burn those miles before that happens.

My suggestion would be to burn them as soon as possible this week since next week might come with some ugliness too as the nwa.com award booking engine increasingly goes the way of delta.com's infamous online booking functionality to get to the targeted January 15th date that DL management has set.