Originally Posted by
christep
A single Op-up at 0.5M/1M is hardly worth crediting the miles IMO. In the years when I had over 120K miles I credited the excess to AAdvantage since that has a Lifetime Status for 1MM/2MM.
This would be my advice as well. Excess miles to another program. If I would fly J/F most of the times (unfortunately now stuck with Y) I would even consider first building my AA status.