guess i left out some of my strategy.

The CCs are new and no annual fee for first year. concentrating on UA MP visa and will ditch next june or call and complain about annual fee and try to get it waived (i got this to work once several years ago).

...new revelations as I read two websites:
http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/6625/Status-9
and
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemileatatime/

then I realized my plans for 2011
BUF-OGG RT in january
BUF-SAN RT in march
BUF or YYZ to ATH in august
and prob some weekend trips could potentially get to 25k if i can manage to put it all on UA

so could potentially make premier UA for 2012