Hi l'avion,

As stated before I am only a newbie too but, I have been asking myself and all of the gurus on the forums a smilar question for a while now, namely whether I should work on Delta or Continental. And after some hard thinking, I chose, AA... (yes I know it wasn't on the list.)

Basically I decided on AA becasue I felt I could do a challenge and get status within the three month time frame. If you think you could fly 10 or 20k miles in three months an AA challenge might be right for you. (AA actually says 5k or 10k qualifying points, but if you, like me, are flying the cheapest fairs it works out to being twice that many miles.)

If you are interested there is a VERY detailed thread here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-platinum.html

Or you can wait and see if I make it or not!

Anyway, I hope this helps some.