Originally Posted by
chrisphx
Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, these are Q fares, which only count 50%, according to
http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Challenge_(AA).
However, the round trip of SFO-MIA-LIM-MIA-SFO is 20,400 actual miles, so it appears that this one round trip could get me Platinum status. I have never done a challenge on any airline, but this may be my first.
Unless I'm missing something, that routing is only about 10,500 miles, so where are you getting the 20,400?
And if your counting actual miles to qualify with AA instead of a Challenge using points, do you have other EQM with AA this year to cover the 40,000 miles that you would need to gain Platinum status?
I think you're confusing the points needed for the challenges as being interchangable with miles flown, and they aren't.
Again, I may have missed something here, but I think your calculations are off for this.