That's the exact same route I'm going down only I won't be doing the Trial Preferred Status as I won't be able to get any US flights in during the period. All my flights up until I should hit *A Gold are in Business anyway, so I'm already getting the perks. The only thing I didn't like about US Airways is no soft landings (so if you don't requal *A Gold, you drop back to nothing ; or that's how I understood it anyway). If the amount you've had would pass for silver though, then you would drop back to silver.