timely thread for me. I've got million miler gold on American and I'm about to do my annual "almost a new year, do I pile on more miles on American or try to get Alaska status" analysis. This year is different -- now that credit card miles don't count toward million miler (in my case 2 million miler) status on American, I figure with ~1.25 million miles on AA, 2 million miles is out of reach, so I might as well have the miles credit toward Alaska's program. First time I reached that decision.