<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by WEREX:
Am I right understood you: For qualify as "AA Plat", I don't obliged use AA-flights into "Platinum Challenge" program?</font>
Correct. If you do a Platinum Challenge (which you must call AA to arrange in advance) starting after (I think) 1 July 2003 then you need to get 10000 status miles (8000 actual miles in D) to achieve Platinum. These can be on any OneWorld airline. You will then be Platinum until February 2005. To retain Platinum after that you will need to get 50,000 stautus miles in calendar year 2004 which must include 4 sectors on AA metal. You can only do a Platinum Challenge once.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">For booking OWE-ticket ex-CAI: Can I use local BA-office (MOW)?</font>
No. Well, if you talk very nicely to them they may help to set it up for you, but the actual ticketing has to be done in CAI and MOW will get no credit for it, so I doubt they will help.
The contact in BA Cairo is Mrs Nabila Sobhi, and her fax number is +20 2 574 7674 (although today the line is out of order - they say they are trying to get it fixed ASAP).