I agree with the above posts and their suggestions.

Reading your original question there seems to be two points where you might be incorrectly informed.

In order to get Platinum through what they call "challenge" AA requires you to accrue 10.000 Q-points or 10.000 non-cheapo miles.

What is this ?

A mile flown in a deep-discount fare yields usually 0,5 point. If it's Y fare it yields 1 point J fare-1,25 points and F 1,5 points. In fact regardless of what you fly your AA account has got to accrue 10.000 Q-points. You can check through the Internet how many you already have.

For short segments, regardless of fare it'll yield at least 500 points.

I'm also under the impression that you'd have 6 months to complete the so-called challenge. Please check.

[This message has been edited by pb9997 (edited 09-28-2002).]