<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nologic:
Taking David's concept a little: you might consider trying to use your AA travel to qualify for QF Gold which gives you free AC access, particularly after you've done the AA Platinum challenge and qualified for the year.</font>
Just remember that regardless of how many zillions of points/miles you rack up in your QF account by flying AA you need four segments per year on
QF metal to get any status (just like you need four AA-metal-segments per year for AAdvantage status).